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Kenya’s largest milk processor Brookside Dairies has increased producer prices to Sh37 from Sh26 a litre.The Kenyatta family-linked said this would attract farmers to sign delivery contracts, enabling Brookside to meet local and foreign demand for its dairy products.
According to the Cereal Growers Association (CGA),the short rain crop failed in Eastern due to insufficient rain in the last quarter of 2017 .Kenyans are likely to pay a premium for maize flour which normally supplements the main harvest.
The Ministry of Agriculture began implementing a contractual system for farming the cotton crop for the first time, and it contracted with private sector companies to sell the crop’s yield from 34,000 feddans.
Nigeria’s wheat production has seen an increase from less than 200,000 metric tonnes to close to one million metric tonnes this year,farmers and other stakeholders are making moves to increase the production to two million metric tonnes.
The Zimbabwe government will introduce legislation to compel households to use solar-powered geysers in the next two weeks, as it moves to regulate electricity consumption.
After Moroccan authorities have approved the import of Russia’s beef products a few months ago, they gave the green light to open Morocco’s national market to Ukrainian chicken and meat.
Almost two months after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Morocco could continue its fisheries partnership and trade dealings with EU–as long as the business did not include the Western Sahara.
Speaking at the Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) project annual meeting yesterday Perrance Shiri said climate change has brought increased frequencies and severity of drought conditions, bouts of heat spells, and uncertainties in the length and quality of growing seasons.
ZIMBABWE are going to starts commercial rice production to cut annual rice importation expenditure of over $100 million and save the much-needed foreign currency.