Bühler officially opens Insect Technology Center Bühler Group has officially opened its Insect Technology Center (ITC) to support the continuing development of the industry for the food and animal feed markets, Bühler announced May 25. In the ITC, Bühler and its customers can conduct larvae growth trials with various feedstock, develop product samples, evaluate breed […]
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Suiderland Plase’s third and largest citrus packhouse becomes operational Suiderland Plase is a South African grower, packer and marketer of citrus and table grapes. In May 2021, site preparation started for Bergpak, their third packhouse and one that will specifically be used to pack various citrus cultivars. The construction process commenced under challenging conditions with […]
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Western Kenya Farmer Finds Export Markets for Herbs A farming revolution is taking shape in Siaya County of Western Kenya, chaperoned by a former civil servant who has transformed swathes of traditionally unfarmed land into an oasis of herbs and spices. The herbs and spices farming has captured international markets while creating a new […]
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Building Industrial Economies in Africa through Mechanization of Agriculture Hakim Karim, Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) manufacturing trainer, building threshers in Zambia in March 2020 In Kumasi, Ghana, a small group of young entrepreneurs, all in their early and mid-20s, are making agricultural mechanization available to farmers while at the same time building the Ghanian industrial […]
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FIRST BUYER IN SUDAN SINGS PRAISES OF CASE IH AXIAL-FLOW 4088 COMBINE AT DEMONSTRATION DAY Quality output and productivity highlighted by farmer/ New combine shown in action to sixty farmers/ Demo day took place in New Halfa in eastern Sudan. Kamal Hassan Mahmoud’s new Axial Flow 4088 […]
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Reemoon Enters the South African Apple Industry On Ametis, the Smit family farm in the eastern Free State, apples from their 75ha of orchards used to be sorted according to weight, with grading done by human eye until three years ago, when Henri Smit decided to move over to optically sorting fruit. His choice fell […]
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Opening of Chinese market for Kenyan avocados is well timed Magdaline Kamau – Mofarm Exporters Beginning of March 2022, the Kenya avocado industry received a welcome boost from the Chinese market granting access to its fresh avocados. “We are hoping that we will be able to export to this new market within the 2022 season […]
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Every year the Lowveld gold kiwi crop gains in mass Malcolm Deacon – Gold Tree Farms The gold kiwi harvest at Gold Tree Farms ended in the last week of February 2022 in White River, Mpumalanga, with two containers that were shipped to France beginning of March, says Malcolm Deacon, managing director of Gold […]
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Stella Rasmussen on the production of sugar snaps and other products in Kenya: “This year, we will build new farms that will allow us to increase our production power” “We will be building new company-owned facilities this year to increase our production capacity,” Stella Rasmussen, managing director of the Meerbusch-based company of the same name, […]
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AgDevCo secures $90m of DFI funding to further invest in African agribusinesses to deliver jobs, incomes, and food $50m of equity from the UK’s development finance institution, CDC Group, soon to be renamed British International Investment $20m of equity from the Norwegian investment fund for developing countries, Norfund; and $20m of senior debt from U.S. […]
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