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FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Maurice Oloo tends to his sukuma wiki farm at his village in Gwassi, Homa Bay, on February 12, 2020. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] Agricultural crops produce a bulk of the food we consume on daily basis and 100% of the food choices for the vegetarian Kenyan population. The yields of the crops we consume, however; are affected by a number of factors with weeds, plant diseases and pests largely responsible for the low yields of most crops in the country if not complete yield losses.  Science defines crop protection as the science and practice of managing plant diseases, weeds...

Graphic Online BY: Ama Amankwah Baafi 30.5k Shares 705 Government has announced the creation of a Ghana Land Information Bank (GhLIB), to provide a reliable and easily accessible information platform to improve access to land for commercial farming. Leveraging digital technology, it will work more closely with stakeholders to confront the structural challenge with commercial agriculture this year. The caretaker Minister of Finance, who is also the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Leader of Government Business, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, announced the creation of the bank when he laid t...

IITA, 2 others target job creation and increase in productivity of maize and cassava in Nigeria Listen to article The Green Innovation Centers for the Agriculture and Food Sector Program (GIAE) – Nigeria funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is launching an eighteen (18) month project to boost maize and cassava production and create job opportunities for youth and women in the value chains. The new project will be implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Agr...

GIZ – GIAE and IITA targets job creation and increase in productivity of maize and cassava in Nigeria By Godwin Atser Listen to article The Green Innovation Centers for the Agriculture and Food Sector Program (GIAE) – Nigeria funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is launching an eighteen (18) months project to boost maize and cassava production and create job opportunities for youth and women in the value chains. The new project will be implemented by the International In...

Nigeria could save $168 million worth of chemical import annually from the production of the new maize variety. TELA maize project investigator Professor