Sh60m tech plan to boost farmers’ fortunes
Small scale farmers will benefit from Sh60 million plan that seeks to help them increase their earnings.The funding from Apollo Agriculture, a financing and products platform empowe…...
Read More Tea body’s fate sealed as new regulations sent to AG office
Agriculture Secretary Peter Munya has sealed the fate of Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) after he released final regulations cutting its export role and weakening its control of…...
Read More Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raises $6m Series A to continue its rapid scaling
Based in Nairobi, Apollo Agricultureis a commercial farming platform for small-scale farmers that uses machine learning and automated operations technology to help them accesseveryt…...
Read More Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda agribusinesses secure Sh5 billion grants
A five-year multicountry project for Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda is investing 2 million Euros (about Sh4.96 billion) in grants to 14 Agri businesses in the three countries. The inves…...
Read More SA’s BitFarming aims to boost meat sector by encouraging digital investment
Formed in 2018, BitFarminggenerates sustainable funding for farmers from investors who want to invest in the sector but who do not have the opportunities to do so directly. Through …...
Read More Rwanda’s coffee harvest will go forward despite pandemic – at a safe distance
As countries begin to reopen after months of coronavirus lockdown, Rwanda is pressing on with its May coffee harvest.Rwanda, which supplied 21,000 tons of coffee to the global marke…...
Read More Kenya’s Tea Production Hits All-time High of 55.7 mn Kilograms in March
Tea productionfor the month of March 2020 in Kenya reached an all-time high of 55.7 million kilograms against 26.5 million kilos recorded during a similar month last year.“Higher p…...
Read More Abosso Goldfields spends GH¢ 8.79 million to develop agricultural sector
The investment included livestock production, oil palm plantation, production of vegetables under the SEED programme, organic vegetable production under the Youth in Organic Horticu…...
Read More https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/markets/commodities/Coffee-tea-auctions-ordered-to-go-digital/38
The Ministry of Agriculture will not renew the trading licences of the tea and coffee auctions if they fail to permanently migrate trading to an online platform in two months. Agric…...
Read More Cereals board seeks agents to buy beans, rice in food security drive
The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) will start buying rice and beans, beginning with 15,000 bags at the end of this month. In a notice published this week, NCPB said it wi…...
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