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Kenya’s Brookside acquires Ugandan dairy firm in expansion drive
Posted on :Monday , 1st June 2015
Brookside Dairy Limited has taken over operations of leading Uganda dairy operator Sameer Agriculture and Livestock Limited (SALL), making it the first major acquisition by the Ruiru-based processor outside Kenya’s borders.
Brookside Director of Milk Procurement John Gethi told a farmers’ field day in Rushere, western Uganda, that the processor had taken over managem. . .Tanzania horticulture exports rise by 38pc, earn $102m
Posted on :Saturday , 25th April 2015
Horticulture is gradually becoming a driving force not only to Arusha where the industry first cropped up, but to the entire agricultural sector, fresh data shows.
The input of the sub-sector to overall agrarian exports value grew by 38 per cent in 2014, as opposed to the previous year when it contributed 31 per cent, registering a 7 per cent increase during the period in review.. . .Tea prices at the Mombasa Auction have begun to show signs of recovery after a sharp drop experienced a year ago.
Posted on :Tuesday , 10th March 2015
Although the gains are marginal, the fact that the trend in price is upward should bring some consolation to Kenya’s over 560,000 smallholder farmers who suffered a major erosion in their earnings last year, following a sharp price drop in the global price of the commodity.In the last two months, tea prices at the Mombasa. . ..jpg)
USAID funds coffee policy
Posted on :Thursday , 5th March 2015
Efforts to implement the national coffee policy got ‘a shot in the arm’ after the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) earmarked about sh1.3b to promote development in the coffee sector. The policy is expected to rejuvenate Uganda’s coffee sector
This funding is channelled through the National Union of Coffee Agri-businesses and Farm Enter. . .Tanzania Govt to enhance farmers’ access to markets
Posted on :Tuesday , 3rd February 2015
The project will focus on critical industrial location, whereby relevant factories are to be located in places where crops mainly used as raw materials are produced.
Speaking at IFAD National Roundtable workshop on Tanzania’s recent evalutaion of agricultural programmes across the country, the Minister for Agriculture,Food Security and Cooperatives, Mr Stephen. . .Please Select an Option
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