Industry Dynamics

According to Dr Cyprian Ebong, officer of the Interim Executive Secretary of the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa (ASARECA) claimed that banana is a part of international trade nowadays.

With the sharp shortage of cooking oil experiencing by the market, the price of edible oil of some areas in Dar es Salaam have greatly increased now.

To support government's “Planting for Food and Jobs” (PFJ) programme, Ghana is actively improving seed quality. Because low-quality seeds lead to low crop yields and low profit in farming.

As a big animal husbandry country in Africa, Tanzania has been trying to build its own livestock vaccine production capacity. At present, five types of the vaccines had been produced since 2014 and that the remaining six were at various stages of trial.

Kenyan farmers used to grow macadamia trees to shade their coffee bushes. Now they are making so much from the nuts that they are abandoning the beans. China's demand promotes the development of Kenya macadamia industry.

While millions of Kenyans are struggling to cope with drought-induced hunger, post-harvest wastage remains widespread in Kenya due to poor storage and handling, transport, and fungi attack. Actually, Kenya is importing cereal using hard-to-come-by foreign currency.

Morocco’s 2018 agricultural campaign has experienced an impressive upswing in production levels in recent months, suggesting that a bountiful harvest that may double returns in May 2018, exceeding the expectations of Moroccan authorities.

The biological pest control group, Biobest, announced the launch of its new, EUR 1.2 million “state-of-the-art” facility, which will boost Morocco’s aphid biocontrol capacity, on April 24.

The price of low cost beer in kampala is expected to increase following a proposed new tax imposed on the drink, the new Nile Breweries Limited (NBL) country operations director, has said.