Broiler Producer Uses Her Position to Uplift Others by Glenneis Kriel, Farmer’s Weekly Jo-andra Cloete, who farms in Joostenberg Vlakte near Cape Town, started producing broilers only a few years ago. She is now mentoring over a hundred farmers, whom she supplies with day-old chicks. She spoke to Glenneis Kriel about the growth of […]
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In a Water-Challenged World, Crop Breeders Must Do More Than Go with the Flow by CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) With water sources dwindling and harsher climate conditions on the rise, farmers in the developing world need both better crop varieties and improved water management practices. This World Water Day, Gustavo Teixeira, CGIAR Excellence in […]
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Farm In A Box: The Ultimate Guide To Container Farming When most of us think of farms, the first images that come to mind are usually large, open fields, big blue skies, and rows and rows of corn or wheat. Very few of us think of buildings, and even fewer of us think of […]
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Mitigating Water Quality Challenges in Farming and Agricultural Practices The production of crops and livestock is highly water intensive and as a result agriculture is the largest water user accounting for nearly 70% of the global water withdrawal, with the remaining 30% consumed by municipal, energy and industrial sectors. The global demand for food […]
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Successful South African Herb Farmer Knows No Boundaries by Duncan Masiwa Adding value is the way forward in competitive business for Basil Williams (44). Nestled between the slopes of the Simonsberg mountain in Stellenbosch and the Haweqwa Nature Reserve next to Groenberg, you’ll find the ever busy agripreneur Basil Williams tending to […]
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Fan Milk Plc to Establish Dairy Farm and Training Institute in Nigeria as Part of Backward Integration Program Fan Milk Plc, Nigerian subsidiary of multinational food-products corporation Danone, has inked a partnership agreement with the government of Ogun state to undertake a backward integration project to enhance local dairy production. The signing ceremony […]
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Power Plastics Thermal Asphalt Covers A thermal asphalt cover is used to keep asphalt warm whilst transporting and storing temporarily so that it doesn’t solidify and become difficult to work with. It is aimed at civil engineering and construction companies that build and maintain roads, driveways, parking lots, etc. and bitumen suppliers. […]
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Nigeria’s Largest Egg Producer ‘Premium Poultry’ Powers its Facility with Renewable Energy by Food Business Africa News Premium Poultry Farms, Nigeria’s largest egg producer has entered into an agreement with renewable energy supplier, Rensource Energy and Empower New Energy, an impact investment company based in Norway to install a solar photovoltaic system at […]
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“Now we can Breathe” – Designing Mechanization to Benefit Women Smallholder Farmers by Maria Jones and Timothy Harrigan The access and use of agricultural mechanization can play a critical role in increasing farm productivity while reducing the time, labor and drudgery of agricultural production. However, agricultural mechanization (like most technologies) is not always easily […]
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How Connecting Innovators and Implementers Can Catalyze Solar Irrigation Scaling in Ghana by Joseph Isaiah Mensah Solar power has the potential to revolutionize water use in agriculture, providing an attractive means for farmers to irrigate their crops. This is especially the case in sub-Saharan Africa, which has among the lowest electrification access in the world […]
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