Archive | August, 2011

Ghanaian United Front Party Focuses on Agriculture and Value Addition to Primary Products

New political party having a focus on private sector development in the economy, business, and entrepreneurship for youth. Agriculture a focus, as well as primary product value-addition. http://www.dailyguideghana.com/?p=23241

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University Course Georgia Tech

UNIVERSITY COURSE (PDF) Georgia Tech offering Cold Chain Management Certificate

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Vietnamese Agricultural Website to be Launched

The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has cooperated with the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre to launch a website on agricultural products for export.  Rice export licenses and RICE exporters hit hard by rising prices.

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Checking Post-Harvest Losses in Nigeria’s Agriculture

Many challenges in Nigeria limited the food production capacity. Post-harvest losses have happened from several different aspects such as pest management, storage, natural disasters and processing. Ms. Oluwatoyinbo advocated the states and the local governments to join this campaign against post-harvest losses.  Analysts also advocate private sector to support development of food processing facilities and […]

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NEPC, Fabricators Boost Agric Outputs

The Director General of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) partnered with fabricators to help add value in local food processing. Adelugba also stated that “There is no way we can add value without the necessary machines and equipment because value addition cannot be isolated from technology”. He pointed out that improving on agricultural products’ […]

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Querries Over Gazetting of Biosafety Law

Kenya raising standards and import requirements for GMOs The government in gazetting the Biosafety Regulations seeks to regulate the cultivation, importation and trade, in Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as a way to prevent unscrupulous importation of the GMOs into the country. Kenya is the fourth country in Africa to allow GMOs. Government trying to encourage […]

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‘Only 15% of Nigerian Roads in Good Shape’

The Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP) released this scary statistics that only 15% of Nigerian roads in good shape. The RAMP chief stated that the high transport cost have continued to impact negatively on the economy. The Federal Government was going to implem RAMP in Kaduna and Cross River states to meet the demand. http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/15442-%E2%80%98only-15%25-of-nigerian-roads-in-good-shape%E2%80%99.html

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GRAINS-U.S. Wheat Surges on Talk of Low Yields

Wheat crop quality not good, prices high, due to weather “U.S. wheat prices surged on Tuesday for a sixth straight session of gains as talk of low yields from the spring wheat harvest helped the market reverse early losses.” The turnaround in wheat futures also helped corn and soybean futures to pare losses, with corn […]

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Rice Consumption Reaches Record Levels in Ghana

Ghana switching more to rice than traditional staples Workshop held by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)-founded Africa Rice Project. About 70 percent of rice consumed in Ghana was imported and these importations had been consistently high since 2001. She said despite the efforts made in local rice production the cost of production was high […]

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Rs. 300 Crore for Vegetable Clusters Near Cities

Pakistani Govenrment investing in growing crops close to cities in order to shorten transportation time and avoid potential postharvest loses. http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=74463

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