This has led to soil exhaustion, coupled with acidification and consequently low yields for staple crops such as beans, maize ...

After a short stay in China Liu Yutao is about to return to Kenya where he has been working as an expert for almost three ...

After a short stay in China Liu Yutao is about to return to Kenya where he has been working as an expert for almost three years in an effort to help ...

An avocado tree on Cayman Brac is prepared for reset by Department of Agriculture’s employees in the aftermath of Hurricane Rafael (CNS): The Department of Agriculture has helped over ...

Farmers in Dokolo District have demanded that the government should establish seed banks across the country for the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, ...

The latter is a mix of seasonal fruits with cassava and sweet potato, to which cashew nuts and peanuts have been added ... Shoba explained that the farm was well-organised when purchased, with groves ...

SAB Miller, the biggest brewing firm in the SADC zone, is trialling the production of beer made from locally-grown cassava fruit at a new facility in Swaziland. The production process has not been ...

All the experts who spoke to Newsweek said that fruit wouldn't be their first choice for protein, but that it could help contribute towards daily intakes. Nutritional therapist and cookbook author ...