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Certified Banana Exports Reach 73% of Cameroon Total Under Five-Year Program
26+ min ago (379+ words) The report estimates that certified cocoa now accounts for 42 percent of national production. The program combined ecological restoration with support for market access and focused on three regions: the Grand Mbam area of the Centre Region, the Western Highlands of…...
Lower-Than-Expected Wheat Area Reported for All of North America
3+ hour, 48+ min ago (330+ words) Before proceeding with a recap of the Statistics Canada's June principal field crop areas report, I would not be doing the most important data released Tuesday justice without highlighting the miss on total wheat acres on both sides of the…...
Poland lost 14 million laying hens
4+ hour, 24+ min ago (284+ words) The Polish egg market is experiencing a serious crisis due to massive outbreaks of avian flu and Newcastle disease. Due to the destruction of millions of laying hens, the country is forced to increase imports of products, including from Ukraine,…...
Land restoration agenda creating Kenya's next economic frontier
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (251+ words) Kenya's landscape restoration agenda is often viewed as an environmental programme focused on restoring forests, rehabilitating watersheds and expanding tree cover. But it also represents something much bigger: the emergence of a new productive sector of the economy. Mobile money…...
Country Kids Produce opens new building in Ottawa " Shaw Local
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (156+ words) Country Kids Produce is constructing a new building at 414 Gentleman Road in Ottawa to house produce and an expanded selection of products. The farm stand, which opened on Ottawa's south side last summer, will remain open during construction. (Stephanie Jaquins)…...
Will Wisconsin corn grow 'knee high by the Fourth of July' this year?
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (401+ words) As cornstalks grow toward the sky each summer, they're sometimes measured against the person standing next to them: knee-high, waist-high and shoulder-high. The saying "knee-high by the Fourth of July" was once used by farmers hoping to measure the success…...
Charles Muasya: Why Kenya's irrigation ambition needs more than engineers
1+ hour, 39+ min ago (1043+ words) National Irrigation Authority (NIA) CEO Charles Muasya. The National Irrigation Authority (NIA), led by its chief executive officer Charles Muasya, is preparing to roll out at least 20 dam projects as part of Kenya's long-term strategy to reduce hunger by expanding…...
Shettima backs Jigawa Alfalfa Project to end farmers-herders crisis
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (200+ words) July 2, 2026 by Tajudeen Adebanjo Vice President Kashim Shettima has identified the large-scale Premium Alfalfa Project being developed by Jigawa El-Meena Farms (JEFs) as a potential long-term solution to Nigeria's lingering farmers-herders conflict, saying the initiative could transform livestock production while…...
Fraud scandal in EU pesticide approval system has kept neurotoxic pesticide on the market for years
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (497+ words) The fungicide fluazinam can harm brain development, but this evidence was effectively hidden from regulators for more than a decade- new research from scientists at Stockholm University has revealed." It is not the first case of regulatory fraud involving pesticides....
APAS Report finds higher grocery prices not translating into Higher Farm Returns
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (453+ words) The report, now in its fourth year, compares retail food prices with farm gate commodity values for products that are largely derived from Saskatchewan agriculture. This year's study focused on retail pork, canola oil, flour, bread, beer, lentils and margarine....