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  • Angola will produce wheat flour from 2017

    ANGOLA, 2016/01/26 Angola will start producing its own wheat flour in 2017, in Huambo province, the minister of Industry, Bernarda Martins, said in Luanda. The minister said that the next plant would have a production capacity of about 1,200 tons, of which 900 tons of flour and the remaining 200 tons of bran.

  • Yes, Africa will feed itself within the next 15 years

    AFRICA, 2016/01/08 Africa will be able to feed itself in the next 15 years. That’s one of the large “bets on the next” that Bill and Melinda Gates have made in their foundation’s new annual letter. Helped by other breakthroughs in health, mobile banking and education, they argue that the lives of people in poor nations “will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history”. Their “bet” is good news for African agriculture: agronomy and its natural twin, agricultural extension, are back on the schedule. If Africa is to feed itself, the women and men who grow its crops need access to technical expertise on how to manage their variable natural resources and limited inputs and market intelligence on what to grow, what to sell and what to keep.

  • South Africa – maize planting hit by drought across the country

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2016/01/06 Fewer than half of the country’s maize farmers were able to plant because of the drought, placing the country’s food security in peril. This week is make or break next farmers in maize-growing areas who hoped for a wet Christmas were disappointed. Maize farmers in the western areas of the country can, according to agriculture experts, still try to plant by Thursday, at the new, but there is no rain in sight. Of the 1.37 million hectares earmarked for white maize, less than half of it – 584 500ha – has been planted, according to statistics obtained from Free National Maize (FSM), a company that finances farmers to produce grain.

  • Malagasy delicacy attracts scientific inquiry

    MADAGASCAR, 2016/01/02 Holidaymakers enjoy having fun, and for a lot of, the holidays mean copious meals and a lot of drinking beyond cultural and religious norms. In Madagascar, the kitoza is one tasty traditional meat product which is widely appreciated by both locals and foreigners. It is made of beef or pork strips, 20 to 50 cm long and 2 to 4 cm wide, prepared from fillet or thin slices. Strips of beef or pork are cut from various pieces of meat, added with ingredients and preservatives, macerated (1 to 5 hours) and hung above the fire for smoking (45 minutes to 2 hours).

  • Positive signals for Egypt’s FMCG sector

    EGYPT, 2015/12/27 In a year marked by major acquisitions, Egypt’s food manufacturing industry is preparing for a round of new listings, as companies look to finance their expansion plans on the back of a additional favourable outlook. Major market moves Late September brought news that US-based food manufacturer Kellogg Company had acquired Egypt’s major cereal producer, family-owned Mass Food Group, in a transaction worth around $50m. Founded in 1996, Mass was the initial company to launch breakfast cereals in the Egyptian market and currently exports to additional than 30 nations around the world, with annual sales of $18m.

  • Zimbabwe: Treasury Avails U.S.$18 Million for Grain Payments

    ZIMBABWE, 2015/12/20 Treasury has released $17,8 million to the Grain Marketing Board to pay farmers for maize delivered during the 2015/16 farming season and to clear payments for wheat delivered between 2007 and 2009. Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister, Dr Joseph Made, yesterday said $13,715 million was for payments of the maize delivered by farmers to the GMB depots during the 2015/16 marketing season while the $4,1 million was for the wheat delivered between 2007 and 2009. "The money has been released to GMB to result the payments to maize and wheat farmers this week. There was an outstanding all for wheat farmers who had delivered their grain between 2007 and 2009 and had not been paid. The release of the money presently settles the outstanding balance.

  • South Africa: Silo Collapse Clean Up Could Take Four Weeks

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/12/14 Cleaning up about 11 500 tons of canola seeds following the collapse of 14 silos at the Sentraal-Suid Koöperasie (SSK) in Swellendam started on Monday morning. It was expected to take about four weeks. The 20-year-old steel structures at the agricultural co-operative toppled like dominoes on December 1. CEO Ernst Pelser said the collapsed silos would be removed from the site and rebuilt once all the seeds had been collected. "The procedure is being overseen by structural engineers and the operation will ensure that the best and safest methods are used," he said.

  • Uganda: Bypassing Middleman

    UGANDA, 2015/12/14 Farmers urged to form cooperatives and market together if they are to beat poverty For 30 years, Ruth Kibingo lived on the slopes of Mt Rwenzori, growing coffee merely for survival, rather than as something that could make her rich. A primary four dropout, Kibingo kept her farming simple, and knew nothing about modern farming methods, disease-resistant varieties or better markets. Often, she sold her coffee for as little as Shs 1,000 per kilo to middlemen who again sold it to lucrative markets. But in 2010, on learning that coffee was being bought at Shs 6,000 a kilo in Ankole sub-region, Kibingo and ten colleagues formed Butitungi United Farmers Association (BUFA).

  • Angola: Vets to Destroy Over Ten Million Eggs

    ANGOLA, 2015/12/14 Eleven million eggs, imported before this year on unlawfully, will be destroyed Friday on December 11, in the Dry Port of Panguila, nothern Bengo province, by the Institute of Veterinary Services, an institution within the Ministry of Agriculture. According to a press release from the Ministry of Agriculture that reached Angop on Thursday in Luanda, the destruction of the eggs appears as a defense measure of public health. In August, the minister of Agriculture, Afonso Pedro Canga, had announced in Lubango city, southern Huila province, the destruction of eggs imported outside the law, having inaugurated the 12th edition of the equitable Agro-livestock of Huila.

  • The acting Wali of North Darfur state the Agriculture Minister

    SUDAN, 2015/12/14 he acting Wali of North Darfur national the Agriculture Minister, Adam Mohamed Hamid Al-Nahla, asserted that the lives and properties of the citizens are red line that the government will not allow anyone to harm or make compromises over them. During his conference with the traditional miners who were assaulted by Menawi movement in the desert Al-Nahla noted that the cease fire decisions doesn't mean the national letting its citizens being assaulted, declaring that the government would respond to what happened at the right time. He criticized some of the organizations which he said they weight with double standards and some media organs that operate secretly and claims the protection of human rights.
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