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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a €121 million loan to Senegal for implementation of an emergency agricultural programme that will boost food production and cushion impacts of war in Ukraine. This loan is the first approved under the AfDB’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility, an initiative to avert a
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Thanks to the continued efforts of the Dutch cooperating producer, CBSA has found all subsidy programmes reported to be non-specific, which includes decoupled support under the EU's Common Agricultural Programme. As a result, no countervailing duties will be levied on future refined sugar exports from this producer to Canada (down from the €243,90/tonne duty previously in place). On the dumping side, revised determination also led to a positive result.
Zimbabwe’s Command Agricultural Programme was meant to improve the country’s food security. Instead, the authorities responsible for safeguarding the country’s finances gave tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei preferential deals to further his stronghold over the struggling economy.
By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent UNSCRUPULOUS Grain Marketing Board (GMB) and Agricultural Extension Services (Agritex) officials stealing and diverting farming inputs onto the black market for resale are “worse than witches”, Mashonaland West provincial minister, Mary Mliswa-Chikoka has said. She was speaking Wednesday at a stakeholders’ meeting in Chinhoyi to discuss the 2020 cropping season post-harvest modalities and plans for the impending 2021 winter wheat season. The minister said those stealing the public property were sabotaging government’s efforts to ensure...