The seed industry in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region is among the best performing agricultural sub-sectors in some member states comprising 21 countries. An extract from a report titled “A Regional Perspective on the Development of...

In Tanzania, the wood and furniture industry comprise categories such as sawmilling and planning of wood, veneer sheets and wood-based panels, builders' carpentry and joinery, wooden containers, other wood products, and furniture.   This is an extract from a white...

In 2019, the Government of Kenya developed and deployed the 10-year Agricultural Sector Growth and Transformation Strategy (ASTGS), and these are the extracts from the executive summary;   Agricultural transformation is a decades-long process which involves...

Without a perfect breed, dairy farming does not make sense anymore, and Zambia has moved a step toward world class dairy farming as dairy farmers begun using technology for breeding intelligence at the end of 2019.   Here is an extract of a briefing from ADT Project...

A study by Sebastian Scott for FAO. Since its establishment in 2008, Old Orchard Organic Farm has grown every year in diversity and size. The farm is run by two people, including building, irrigation installation, crop production and marketing. The total area under...

Coffee, just like copper, is a Zambian economic strength, that, if fully exploited, will not only grow the economy, but carve a space in the global economy for the country as does copper production. Zambia is a coffee producing country with the potential to export...

The Women’s Farming Syndicate (WFS), founded in 2011, is an agribusiness community with a diverse membership from professionals to grass roots; a business constituency that has grown to over 5,000 women entrepreneurs across the country with key projects and programmes...