Tag: maize farmers
A Ghanaian maize farmer thrives on the ashes of destroyed forest
For years, Christiana Akwabea admired the vast fields she visited in neighboring districts to buy maize for reselling and dreamed of one...
Uganda: Maize farmers to benefit from Yara’s Shs7.1b food security initiative
More than 23,000 smallholder rice and maize farmers and state-owned prison farms across the country are set to benefit from a consignment...
MoFA distributes insecticides to control armyworm
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) has begun a nationwide distribution of insecticides to prevent the invasion of the fall armyworm (FAW) from...
Drought-hit Zimbabwe farmers look to science to save crops
ZIMBABWE Under the scorching Zimbabwean sun, cattle seek shade among stunted thorn bushes in the drought-prone district of Zaka, where crops wither due to...