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Topics: Agriculture Global, Sustainability, Ag Africa,

“Africa boasts significant untapped agricultural potential. While the continent accounts for 60% of the world’s arable land, it only contributes 4% of total output.“

Africa: Untapped potential for agriculture

Africa boasts significant untapped agricultural potential. While the continent accounts fo...

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Ag India,

India's agricultural farms get a technology lift - ETtech

How young and innovative firms are breaking into India’s agricultural landscape, usi...

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JAMES MSASA
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Markets/Pricing, Agriculture Global, Hobby Farming, Young Farmers,

As we are preparing for Farmer's day in Tanzania which starts on 1st August I want you to read the story of Nanenane(eight eight day)/farmers day in Tanzania which always held in 1st to 8th August every year.

Nane Nane Day - Wikipedia

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shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Agriculture Global, Ag Asia / Pacific, Ag Africa,

"While the Chinese government is the main driver for investment in African agriculture, it is increasingly seeking to involve private-sector companies through public-private partnerships..."

China: ramping up investment in African agriculture

As China’s government pledges to help funnel more aid, development finance and private-s...

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Team AgWiki
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soybeans, Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, Sustainability,

"The major barriers in sourcing 100% deforestation-free soy include long supply chains and the legal conversation of natural vegetation to cropland."

Nestlé talks challenges in sustainable soy: Complex supply chains and legal deforestation

The major barriers in sourcing 100% deforestation-free soy include long supply chains and ...

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Topics: Agriculture Global, Ag India,

"Agriculture in western India is different from that in the Gangetic Plain. Wheat is much less important than rice, bajra and jowar. Cotton is grown in Maharashtra. The farmer has been taking on biotech seeds, moving over from the earlier desi varieties to long-staple cotton and now seeds which give a good crop with shorter growing periods, saving on pesticides and nutrients..."

New Farmer, Old Paradigm

Agriculture sector needs institutions and developed markets. ...

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John LaRose Jr.
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TOPIC(S): Agriculture Global,

07/08/2019 SOURCE: www.ipsnews.net

Of Leaders Then and Now

Richard Dossevi parks his motorcycle taxi on one of the busiest street corners in Cotonou, Benin’s commercial capital, to wait for commuters amid the summer heat. It has been four years since he left his native Togo to seek work opportunities in neighbouring Benin

Global Agricultural Surfactants Market 2019-2024: $1.85 Billion Opportunity in Production of Sustainable Bio-Based Surfactant Products

DUBLIN, June 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Agricultural Surfactants Market: Focus o...

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Randy Krotz
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Soybeans, Agriculture Global,

USDA sees record soybean harvest for Brazil

With a return to average yields, the USDA forecasts record soybean production in Brazil fo...

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Randy Krotz
shared this 2 article 6 years ago
Topics: Corn/Maize, Agriculture US, Agriculture Global,

Arlan Suderman: USDA Should Have Never Released June Acreage Report

Arlan Suderman: USDA Should Have Never Released June Acreage Report...

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