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KENYA – Kenya has embarked on a 5-year plan to increase the acreage under rice production in the country by at least 100,000 acres as part of its efforts to achieve rice self-sufficiency, Joel Tanui, Chief Operating Office at the National Irrigation Authority has revealed. Currently, Kenya imports 80% of its rice from Asia and Tanzania to meet the demand…
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USA – General Mills has divested natural tortilla snacks company “Food Should Taste Good” to Real Food from the Ground Up for undisclosed sum. Founded in 2006 by Peter Lescoe, Minnesota-based Food Should Taste Good makes natural tortilla chips from corn, multi-grains, and black bean chips in a variety of flavors. The company also carries non-GMO credentials, producing plant-based snacks…
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GLOBAL – Discovered in Kenya in 1921, African Swine Fever (ASF) has remained a major threat for the pork industry, decimating millions of pigs whenever it strikes leaving many farmers and pork processors to incur losses of untold proportion. Last year alone, analysts estimated that in China, the world’s largest pig producer, 200 million pigs die or be culled in…
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CHINA- China’s grain output reached a new record of 68.7 billion metric tons (MT) in 2022, new estimates from The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) published have revealed. For the market year (MY) 2022/23, Corn production in MY2022/23 is forecasted at 277.2 MMT, up 1.7 percent from last year indicating a better harvest in the North China Plain, according to…
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RWANDA-With Fall Army Worms wreaking havoc in grain fields across the continent, Rwanda is considering exploring biological control agents (Parasitoids) to contain the agents that are ravaging maize crops across the country. Fall Armyworm, an insect that was first detected in Central and Western Africa in early 2016, is an insect pest that feeds on more than 80 crop species,…
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ZIMBABWE- Zimbabwe is making progress towards attaining self-sufficiency in wheat with import volumes declining 11% from 210 million kilograms in 2021 to 186 million in 2022. Zimbabwe which historically used to import 80 percent of wheat annually, has made steps towards increasing local production to substitute imports which end up depleting valuable foreign exchange reserves. Despite reduce imports, Zimbabwe still…
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USA-Agricultural cooperative GROWMARK, the majority owner of Allied Seed, LLC, has acquired the remaining ownership held by GreenPoint Ag Holdings, LLC for undisclosed terms. The transactions include seed production facilities, wholesale and retail agronomy facilities, and Agway’s equity interest in CF Industries and Allied Seed L.L.C. Launched in 2000, Allied Seed, based in Nampa, Idaho, US, offers a full line…
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IVORY COST-Dekel Agri-Vision PLC, a United Kingdom-based agro-industrial company with subsidiaries in Ivory Coast, plans to start full commercial production of raw cashew nut processing plant in Ivory Coast in 2023 to boost local processing. Dekel has increased its interest in the cashew project to 100%, following the acquisition of a 29% beneficial interest in Pearlside Holdings Ltd for GBP619,000…
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NIGERIA-The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that the country earned 250 million US Dollars from the export of cashew nuts in 2022 and is forecasted to fetch about $500 million in 2023. The announcement was made by Dr. Mohammad Mahood Abubarkar, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development at the lunch of Nigeria Cashew Day and Cashew Season flag-off ceremony…
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NIGERIA-President Muhammad Buhari has today commissioned a private facility, Darma Rice Mill in Katsina owned by business mogul Alhaji Dahiru Barau Mangal. This comes a few days after he commissioned an ultra-modern Imota Rice Mill complex in Lagos which is the largest in Africa and third globally. Darma Rice Mill has an output capacity of 120 tons per day and 250,000 metric…
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