The Farmer Field Day connected farmers with improved technologies, quality inputs and new business opportunities ahead of the next planting season.
The Department of Agriculture has expanded awareness efforts after Goss’s Wilt spread to eight of the country’s nine provinces.
The latest move builds on earlier efforts to reduce rising rice stocks and increase sales of locally produced rice.
Russia’s latest export tax comes as global wheat production falls below demand, keeping importers across Africa and the Middle East focused on supply and prices.
The court has directed government agencies to release records linked to the duty free importation of 490,000 tonnes of rice within seven days.