*New Varieties to Help Improve Rice Productivity and Income-Generation for Resource-Poor Farmers * *PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria. December 23, 2013*. In partnership with the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has released three lowland rice varieties – UPIA1, UPIA2, and UPIA3 – which are long grains of grade A, high-yielding, and…
Award expected to Strengthen Public-Private Partnerships ACCRA, Ghana. December 23, 2013. Mr. Zakaria Sumani Iddrisu, the Managing Director of Heritage Seeds Company Limited – supported by AGRA – was recently named the National Best Seed Grower Farmer during Ghana’s 29th National Farmer’s Day. The event was held at Sogakofe in the country’s Volta Region. Agriculture, it is said, begins…
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MIKI TASSENI: WORLD leaders gathered early this week for paying homage and final respects to the most renowned political leader of the 20th century, former South African president Nelson Mandela, who died after a long drawn out battle with lung disease. Acclaim was unanimous and universal as to his impact to raise political morality to a higher level, in…
Tanzania and Mozambique are locked in a race to be first to export gas from East Africa, but a bigger battle awaits as the United States and others gear up for a share of the global gas market. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments from huge recent discoveries could transform their struggling economies, where average annual incomes languish below $600…
Dar es Salaam: The Vice President Dr Mohammed Bilal has asked employers to work closely with the government to ensure implementation of BIG RESULTS NOW (BRN) is made possible. Presiding over the Employer of the Year Award (EYA) 2013, he commended the Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) for organizing the event, adding that such surveys were necessary benchmarking for…
*ACCRA, Ghana. *The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the African Investment Climate Research (AFRICRES) recognized outstanding efforts by Farmer Organizations (FOs) across Africa in promoting food security on November 28, 2013 at a gala event in Accra, Ghana. The 2013 African Farmer of the Year Awards (AFOYA) event was organized to recognize and reward smallholder…
NAIROBI, Kenya. 9 December 2013. Today, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) announced a five-year project that seeks to increase incomes of smallholder farmers through the creation of an enabling policy environment in Africa. The initiative –*Micro Reforms for African Agribusiness (MIRA) *– will identify, prioritize and reform specific agricultural policies and regulations that currently deter…
By Anthony Muchoki: A project to boost small scale farmers production through mixed farming and improved soil fertility Tanzania’s Northern Zone since 2010 has benefitted over 50,000 peasants. AGRA invested USD794,700 through the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives to improve soil fertility and increase food security and incomes of smallholder farmers in central and northern zones of…
CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, December 5, 2013/ *– *South African financial services group Sanlam (http://www.sanlam.co.za) announced today that it had opened its prestigious financial journalism awards to reporters across Africa for the first time. The group aims to recognise and celebrate the contribution journalists across the continent are making towards the African growth story. The Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial…
Dar es Salaam, 3 12 2013: The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) has announced that the Employer of the Year Award (EYA) 2013 ceremony will be held on Thursday 5th December at the Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam. At the same ceremony the young entrepreneur of the year award will also be up for grab. The Vice President of…
By Anthony Muchoki=: THE average small-holder farmer, comprising a majority of the 45 million-strong population in Tanzania, hardly knows anything about soil health, notes Mr. Mwadhini Myanza, Executive Director of the Morogoro-based civil society organisation ‘Irrigation Training & Economic Empowerment Organization (IRTECO). This situation is replicated across Africa where, for many of the continent’s 54 countries assured food security…