Grain value chain/Uganda – Government moves to enforce grain quality control According to Uganda’s Trade Ministry, grains leaving and coming into the country will be subjected to strict quality controls as government moves... 30/08/2015
Grain value chain/Ghana - Bank of Ghana supports warehouse receipt system The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has initiated action towards the introduction of Warehouse Receipt System finance during an international seminar on Commo... 05/08/2015
Grain value chain/Kenya - Grain farmers to get asset financing at 9% In Kenya, Transnational Bank has partnered with BrazAgro, a farm machinery dealer, to issue grain farmers with funds to purchase storage facilitie... 05/08/2015
Grain value chain/Kenya – A collective win for sorghum value chain actors A coordinated effort by stakeholders along the sorghum value chain has seen the government review its decision to impose a 50 per cent levy on the... 05/08/2015
Grain value chain/ Kenya - New app to connect Kenyan farmers with climate-smart seeds According to agriculture experts, a new app launched in Kenya could help millions of smallholder farmers adapt to climate change by offering infor... 18/06/2015
Grain value chain/Zambia - E-voucher to empower smallholder farmers The Zambian government is planning to launch a mobile delivery and tracking system (e-Voucher) to distribute subsidized seed and fertilizer throug... 08/06/2015
Grain value chain/Kenya - Embracing indegeneous technical knowledge(ITK) Recently, there has been new storage technologies developed: actellic super and metal silos. Due to incremental price of the technologies, smallho... 08/06/2015
Maize value chain/Kenya - Possibility of lethal maize disease spread by soil According to seed experts from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) said there is a possibility that the Maize Lethal Necrosis... 07/06/2015
Value chain Finance/Tanzania - Farmers benefit from financial training through M-Pawa About 20,000 grain farmers in Tanzania have benefited from financial training as part of the Connected Farmer Alliance, a USAID funded partnership... 19/05/2015
Africa launches initiative to control maize disease African scientists have launched a regional initiative to improve aflatoxin control regulatory frameworks in the Common Market for eastern and Sou... 11/05/2015