Prathista Industries Limited (PIL), one of India's research and Technology Company has revealed it plans to set up a US$75 million organic fertilizer plant and other organic agri-inputs in Uganda to serve the African market for fertilizers.

Kenya's commitment to sugar sector reforms is set to come under the spotlight as a new team takes charge at the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB).

Kenya will import one million bags of maize from Zambia to boost its stock and avert a looming shortage in the second half of the year.

As part of ongoing efforts to enforce compliance with packaging of iodized salt in 1kg bags, a combined team of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and UNICEF officials have mounted a two-day raid of major

Workers in Kaduna State have called for immediate increase in wages to enable them survive the current global food crises, saying it could wreak havoc on the population if adequate care is not taken by the federal and states governments.

The Managing Director of Kogi State Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) Dr. Friday Onoja has appealed to International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to expand its projects in the state.

The authorities of Gwagwalada Area Council, FCT, have subsidized the prices of fertilizer by five percent to farmers of the council in this year's farming season.

Some leaders in Arusha say it is time for residents of the region to stop depending on food assistance amid allegations that there are some NGOs that are encouraging villagers to beg for food aid.

A cross-section of farmers in Gombe have decried the shoddy and discriminatory manner in the distribution of fertiliser which they alleged has been hijacked by top government functionaries and stalwarts of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

The Federal Government is considering exiting from the procurement and distribution of fertilizer in the country, Minister of State for Agriculture and Water Resources Adamu Maina Waziri has said.

Minister of presidential affairs Friday said Falaba town in Koinadugu district have never eaten imported rice as they produce enough rice for their own consumption.

THE World Bank has given Uganda $10m (about sh17b) to finance a four-year project aimed at preventing bird flu (avian and human influenza).

European Union (EU) tax payers could help finance farming in developing countries by up to $1.6 billion (N1.8tr) by doling out unused agricultural subsidies.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the "senseless killing" of one of its truck drivers who was ambushed in southern Sudan after delivering vital food supplies to the agency's warehouse in Juba.

Legislators here have called on government to put a ban on food exports to avoid a situation where all the country's grain will be shipped out.

Uganda has began to see a significant production of rice thanks to the successful development and release of stress-tolerant upland and low-land irrigated New Rice for Africa variety, Nerica rice

Kenya has been blamed for the rising food prices in landlocked countries like Uganda and a few others that depend on Mombasa port to import goods, a World Bank report has observed.

On the same afternoon that Robert Mugabe picked up a bible and swore to serve the people of Zimbabwe for another 5 years, ZANU-PF thugs descended on a commercial farm in the Chegutu area near Harare, savagely beat up three

Kenyans will soon be required to fund agricultural activities if a proposal by five ministries is adopted.

THE problem of Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) is one that has exercised the minds of successive Governments in Zambia, and the reasons are well known.