Pamoma Correspondent About 100,000 smallholder farmers and 550 agro-dealers in six districts in four counties in Eastern Kenya are set to improve access to markets, increase earnings and livelihood thanks to a project to be launched by AGRA and USAID, Communications Director at Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Sylvia Mwichuli has said. According to a media…
Pamoma Reporter: For almost two centuries successive government interest in the clove industry in Zanzibar has been promoted by the income wealth emanating from the crop. For the farmers, the growing and marketing of the cash crop has always known a heavy state control, sometimes bringing in boon and other times doom. From 1968 onwards, it has been the…
Nairobi, 11th February 2014: Paynet, a full payments service provider for banks and mobile money companies in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan has today announced a merger of its PesaPoint agent network with that of Pep Intermedius – to further grow the PesaPoint brand and expand its network. Pep Intermedius, one of Kenya’s leading agent aggregators, has…
=By Anthony Muchoki=: “Our biggest cry today is the markets. We have a lot of cassava ready for harvest, but there are no markets. Zanzibar should have industries that uses cassava as raw materials, else so much cassava will go to waste every year.” This are words of Ali Hamisi Msamu, the secretary general of farmers organization in known…
=By Anthony Muchoki=: *You cannot discuss the National Agricultural Input Voucher Scheme as it is today without mentioning AGRA” PROFESSOR Pedro A. Sanchez, who co-chairs the Hunger Task Force of the Millennium Project of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), observes that rural African farmers need empowering. What they need include the right quantities and quality of fertilizer…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 29, 2014/ — The ONE Campaign ( http://www.one.org) today released a new report and launched Do Agric, It Pays, a campaign calling for African governments to commit to spending at least 10% of national budgets on effective agriculture investments, through transparent and accountable budgets. At the heart of the Do Agric campaign is an effort…
DAR ES SALAAM, 28 JANUARY, 2014 Honourable Eng. Christopher Chiza, (MP), Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Mr. Salum Shamte, Chairman of the Agricultural Council of Tanzania, Distinguished Delegates; Resource Persons, Invited Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen; It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to Tanzania and to Dar es Salaam in particular. I hope you have…
BERLIN, Germany. 21 January, 2013 – Today, AGCO, a global leader in farm machinery manufacture, joins the Partners Group of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) ahead of the AGRF in September 2014. AGCO joins with the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU), African Union (AU), African Development Bank (AfDB),…
*Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 January 2014 – *The BRICS countries should not be counted out as dynamic forces in the global economy. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS) have all been hit to varying degrees by fallout from the global financial crisis, but leaders responsible for economic management in these countries predict they will rebound over the…
*The time has come for SADC to seek innovative ways to mobilise and generate resources and thereby lessen dependency in its endeavours to fast track economic regional integration and development, while consolidating the political gains achieved so far over the years”. *These sentiments were expressed by the Minister of External Relations of the Republic of Angola Honourable Dr. George…