Tag Archives: farming

Frankfurt, Germany | AFP | German chemicals giant Bayer said Wednesday it had agreed to buy the controversial US seeds and pesticides firm Monsanto for $66 billion, in a deal that triggered immediate criticism from environmentalists. After a months-long pursuit, Bayer said its US peer had accepted an improved offer …

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | AFP |  With the logo of his internet TV station on his black T-shirt, Inoussa Maiga energetically plucks corn stalks in northern Burkina Faso for a programme on farming in Africa. Maiga, 30, launched Agribusiness TV in May in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou, determined to change …

NBS: Farmers have criticized the budget read this afternoon by Finance Minister designate Matia Kashija. Whereas allocation to the sector has more than doubled, a group of farmers watching the parliamentary proceedings live on television at Hotel Africana in Kampala are bitter.   Share on: WhatsApp

Successful `Zero Food Loss’ programme run by WFP nears target of 240,000 smallholder farmers What do you do if you run a school in a poor rural area and have to feed 800 pupils? That is the challenge the parents and teachers of Lumuli Primary School in Butagaya sub-County, Jinja …

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has asked the Ministry of Finance to take new measures to help Uganda’s dairy industry compete favorably on the world stage. He was responding to pleas for government support to the industry when Kiruhura district dairy farmers visited his country home in Rwakitura on Saturday. He …