AFRICAN & MIDDLE EAST NEWS
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Jospong Group partners Komptech in US$ 33M deal to boost rice production
GHANA – The Jospong Group of Ghana (JGC), a diversified holding company has signed a 30-million-euro (US$33.1 million) agreement with the Austrian company Komptech in an initiative…
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Zimbabwean sunflower production is projected to hit 90 479 tonnes in the 2022/23 season, an 8-fold jump
ZIMBABWE- The Zimbabwean sunflower production is projected to reach 90 479 tonnes from 11 117 tonnes reaped last season, an 8-fold jump owing to increased…
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Tanzania to construct state-of-the-art cashew nut factory to boost local processing
TANZANIA – The government of Tanzania is scheming on constructing a modern cashew processing facility in the Mtwara region in a bid to increase local…
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Algeria opens up 200,000 hectares of state land to private investors to boost wheat production
ALGERIA – The Algerian National Agricultural Land Office (ONTA) plans to distribute more than 200,000 hectares of agricultural land to private investors in a bid…
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Millers risk losing duty-free licenses if they fail to import maize within seven days
KENYA – The Kenyan Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mithika Linturi has given millers a one-week ultimatum to import maize or have their duty-free importation licenses revoked,…