There are reports India may significantly reduce her cotton exports. Analysts are concerned adverse weather events and pest damage to India’s cotton plantations, particularly pink bollworm infestations, will result in considerably lower crop than previously expected. Read more.
Florida’s orange plantations suffer from a disease. The citrus greening disease, also known as HLB attacks and “suffocates” trees in Florida. Read more.
US soybean exports totaled 2.9 million tones in the week ending 4/11/2021, according to the USDA. This is the weekly high since December 2020. Read more.
Cocoa demand and consumption have increased recently as countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Read more.
On the daily timeframe, SOYBM: D1 broke up the downtrend resistance line. A number of technical analysis indicators formed signals for further growth. Read more.
Minister of Agriculture Prof Adolf Mkenda said this in Mtwara City while addressing cashew nut processing stakeholders at a consultative session and creating a trend to bring 60% cashew nuts to be cracked in Tanzania to find a large market in and out of the country. Read more.
Tobacco has for many years been called ‘Malawi’s green gold’, an expression coined to signify the importance of the crop to the country’s economy. But while the leaf enjoyed a favourable time and space on the international market, several crops in the legume family had been silently waiting in the wings to steal the show. Read more.
The government has said it will continue to make various efforts to attract investors from various companies to buy their tobacco products produced in various regions of the country.
Eswatini has dedicated 339 hectares of land to a national agricultural programme meant to provide maize, beans and sorghum for all 339 chiefdoms in all four geographic regions of the country. Read more.
Zimbabwe is expecting to put approximately 62 000 hectares of this year’s 2021 under winter wheat crop production.
In a bid to resuscitate the economy through aquaculture, Eswatini has set up a fish hatchery targeting to raise tonnes of more male fish than female.
Zimbabwe’s communal and large scale farmers got a wedge of mutual confidence with the rebranding of Agri-Bank to Agricultural Finance Company Holdings made up of four subsidiaries namely AFC Commercial Bank, AFC Insurance, AFC Land and Development Bank and AFC Leasing Company. Read more.
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