In his first trip to Africa since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Bill Gates has announced the Bill & Melinda Gates…
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Kenya has partnered with an Australia-based company, Fortescue Future Industries, to build a fertilizer production facility in the next three…
The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is in the process of starting to facilitate the trading of wheat on its floor.…
Extreme weather patterns as a result of global climate change may drastically affect coffee production in the country this year.…
Local agribusiness firm, Kakuzi Plc has secured pre-shipment approvals from the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) for its second…
National Treasury has availed KES 3.55 billion to start implementation of the fertilizer subsidy programme that will start with counties…
Kenya’s coffee exports earnings in the 11 months to August 2022 increased by KES 9.8 billion ($81 million), attributed to…
The price of Kenya’s coffee at the Nairobi coffee auction dropped to a three-month low in this week’s sale, reflecting…
The weekly Mombasa Tea Auction held on 22nd, 23rd and 24th August 2022 had 12.3 million kilograms of tea offered for sale.…
Tea exports reduced 28% in the month of May as compared to the same period last year despite increased production…
The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has imported 88,000 metric tons of NPK fertilizer from Russia for KSh9 billion. The…
The coffee auction at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) recorded a 5% increase in prices, the second time in a…
The government has subsidised the price of maize flour by Sh100 for a two-kilogramme packet in a deal with millers…
The price of maize flour has breached the Sh200 mark for a two-kilogramme packet, the highest to ever been witnessed…
Microsoft says it is committing to working with Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture through a platform that will digitize agriculture in…
Ethiopia plans to increase its local wheat output by up to 70% in 2022 as the country cushions itself from…
Cooking oil prices could rise further in the coming days amidst the biting dollar shortage which coupled with limited exports…
Kenya Orchards Plc, a listed firm that manufactures and sells fruit and vegetable bottled and canned products for domestic consumption…
Kenya’s stagnant sugar industry has received another reprieve. This is after the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa(COMESA) regional…