Agriculture

The latest news on all things agriculture, rural news, and information on farming.

Kenya to adopt AI, satellite-driven crop monitoring to boost farmers’ yield

With the aid of a forthcoming agri-tech platform, Kenyan farmers will soon be able to make informed, data-driven farming decisions and monitor crops u

Nigeria’s agric insurance market can generate $600m premium – Africa Re

Nigeria’s agriculture insurance industry has the potential to produce a premium of over $US600million due to its approximately 70 million hectares of

How Almajiris, youths make money from sorghum, rice in Yobe

Yobe is an agrarian state with the potential to produce crops such as sesame, sorghum, rice, and gum Arabic on large scales but poor knowledge of good

Dangote refinery empowers Adamawa farmers on sugarcane cultivation

The Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) in Numan, Adamawa State, had empowered over 781 farmers in sugarcane cultivation, in an effort to reduce the rate of

AGRO SOLUTIONS: New crop irrigation system recycles nutrients and water

UK trials of a novel irrigation system which collects, stores and recycles water, and reuses nutrients to enhance crop production, are taking place at