Every day during shea season, Hawa Sidibé walks four to seven kilometers to collect shea nuts to sell to traders. As President of the Shea Cooperative of Gouandiaka, in Sikasso, southern Mali, lack of transportation to the fields is one of the many challenges she and the other members of her cooperative

ETHIOPIA – The Tigray Chamber of Commerce & Sectoral Associations of Ethiopia has started mobilizing investors to take part in the bidding process for the privatization of Welkait Sugar Plant, one of the sugar factories the government of Ethiopia is working to privatize. Last year the Ethiopian government embarked on the

EGYPT – Egypt has exported 68,000 tons of onion since September 2019, with exports of citrus fruits to China recovering and potato exports to European markets improving, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation. Head of the Central Department for Agricultural Quarantine at the Ministry of Agriculture and Land

DUBAI/CAIRO, April 5 (Reuters) – Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, is considering changes to the way it buys the grain ahead of an anticipated purchase to boost strategic reserves, aiming to reduce trade risks arising from any possible export curbs by suppliers. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had encouraged

Despite the coronavirus pandemic having stopped people’s businesses, farmers are working hard to make sure there is enough produce at the end of the season. With above 80 per cent of farmers having already finished planting, mainly beans and soybeans, there are farmers who have delayed for the season 2020B,