Tanzania: Commercial Agriculture Can Reduce Poverty
POVERTY levels deeply entrenched among rural folks can be significantly reduced if smallholder farmers are allowed to go into commercial agriculture with access to lucrative urban markets.
World Bank Lead Economist for Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda, Jacques Morriset said in Dar es Salaam
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Zimbabwe: Govt Supports Poultry Farming
Government will continue supporting small holder poultry farmers as part of efforts to consolidate their contribution to the growth of the agriculture industry, a senior Government official has said.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, Mr Ngoni Masoka said the poultry industry was rapidly growing.
Poultry Farming Company Introduces New Machinery
Asmara – Eritrean Poultry Farming Company, a private business located around Mai-Nefhi area, indicated that it has introduced new machinery worth 28 million Nakfa with a view to boosting production.
Mr. Tsehaye Gebreyesus, Manager of the company, said that availability of new incubators would save the company from chick imports,
MSU uses $7.8 million grant to improve farming in Africa
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University researchers will use a $7.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help eight African nations improve their sustainable farming methods.
The grant, from the Gates Foundation Global Development Program, will be used to help guide policymaking efforts to intensify farming methods that meet agricultural needs while improving environmental quality in Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
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