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August 2, 2012
Zambia: Zero Hunger project starts with R 800 million for agri-tools
As part of the Zero Hunger initiative, the Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) has started rolling out about R 800 million for agricultural tools to work unused agricultural land. The plan entails a crop production programme that seeks to plough more than 300,000 hectares of unused arable land. […]
August 2, 2012
China to boost Tanzanian farmers
The Chinese government has proposed a trading cooperation model for cotton farmers in the country who have suffered major income losses due to lack of market for the crop. Read more here.
August 2, 2012
Bhutan plans to go all-out organic
Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley said at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development that his government was preparing a National Organic Policy in order to ‘sustain the flow of nature’s bouties’. Read more here.
August 2, 2012
India: Corpus Fund for crop advisory
A new corpus fund group for crop advisory is being formed under Dr DSK Rao. It is being called ‘All India Crop Advisory Group’, and comprises of members drawn from across fields. Read more here.
August 2, 2012
Investing in Agriculture: AgDevCo plants, waters and waits
Investing in agriculture takes patience – not something a lot of investors, eager for quick returns, have in ready abundance. However, that is changing with UK-based social venture capital firm AgDevCo. AgDevCo is now one of the pioneers of an innovative model (involving professional fund managers investing donor funds as […]
August 2, 2012
India’s mid-summer nightmare
Monsoons are the life-blood of Asia’s third-largest economy, considering the number of small scale farmers practising agriculture here, and the proportion they form of the total population. This year, a 21 per cent deficiency in the rains has caused alarm. The monsoon, which acts as a strong check on inflation, […]
August 2, 2012
Flood tolerant paddy farming popular in Bangladesh
The cultivation of flood-tolerant variety paddies has already become popular among the farmers after repeated successes they achieved in recent years ushering in a new era in the country’s agriculture sector and food security. Over 1.4 million farmers would be practising this over 162,000 hectares of land. Read more here.
August 2, 2012
Tanzania: Experts tout for PPPs in agriculture
According to the principal economist in the Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives at the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), insufficient involvement of the private sector in agricultural development is a reason for slow pace in transformation of the sector into commercial farming as the mainstay of economic […]
August 2, 2012
Africa: Bamboo farming takes pressure off Kenya’s forests
Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Africa find it a challenge to obtain food as a result of losing their lands (in Kenyan forests), and had to rely on relief food for a long time. Now the stress that was caused on Kenyan forests is being reduced as they take up […]
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