Mobile technology is increasingly being used to improve smallholder farming across Kenya, as it holds considerable potential to improve operations, reduce weather-related and post-harvest losses, and offers an efficient and transparent means to distribute millions of tonnes of state-subsidised equipment and supplies. Both public and private...
Agriculture remains Kenya’s apex sector and largest contributor to both GDP and economic growth, even as the government intensifies development in utilities, energy, mining, construction and manufacturing. A critical source of employment and the country’s largest export earner, the sector has witnessed notable improvements in mechanisation,...
Having suffered years of decline, Kenya’s domestic sugar industry is set for renewal in 2015 with the announcement of plans to privatise five state-owned sugar companies. With imports rising and production falling, the potential for private sector expansion is considerable – though rising input costs, low productivity and an expected influx of...
Fertiliser production in Algeria has risen in 2014 and 2015, thanks largely to major plants expanding production and the launch of a third producer. Increasing fertiliser use plays a key role in government plans to step up domestic agricultural production. Currently, Algeria’s use of fertiliser is well below that of its neighbours, Morocco and...
A drive to improve food security, coupled with weakened oil prices worldwide, have prompted Algeria to accelerate its planned agricultural reforms over the next five years. To that end, in 2014 the government announced plans to spend AD300bn (€2.8bn) each year on agriculture as part of the Public Investment Programme 2015-19 in order for the...
South Africa is a major producer of maize, which is used to produce both food staples and animal feed for the domestic market, and is also exported. The drought of early 2015 affected production badly, but the outlook is more positive for the crop, which has been increasingly favoured over wheat.
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