Ghana: Injaro Investments leaves M&B, the country’s largest corn seed producer
Injaro Agricultural Capital Holdings Limited (“IACHL”), the impact investment fund managed by Injaro Investments, announced on Tuesday June 22 that it had sold all...
DRD and cocoa sustainability: the executive secretary of the “Ivory Coast Ghana Cocoa Initiative”...
At the head of the initiative until 2025, Alex Assanvo, the executive secretary of the Ivory Coast Ghana cocoa initiative, is already unrolling his...
Mauritanie: announcement of agricultural PPPs and suspension of the AAAID project
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani instructed to suspend the AAAID 3,200 hectare project in Dar El Barka. The announcement was made on...
Togo: Olam and AFC take a stake in MIFA SA
The Togolese government announced, on June 16, 2021, its intention to sell all or part of the State's shares in the capital of the...
Chad: upward trend for the cotton sector
Cotton production is on the rise again after poor performance in recent seasons which almost led to the liquidation of the state-owned company, Coton-Tchad....
Mauritania: Ahmed Salem El Arbi takes control of the Agricultural Development Company
Ahmed Salem El Arbi, executive of the National Industrial and Mining Company of Mauritania (Snim), is appointed head of the National Company for Agricultural...
Côte d’Ivoire: Government to “step up” support for natural rubber producers
The country’s second largest agricultural export product after cocoa, rubber, which achieves a turnover of 917 million dollars for a workforce of 165,000 planters,...
Moses Katumbi returns to the earth
From green copper (corn) to rice cultivation, Moïse Katumbi is expanding his agricultural activity. Land is indeed the resource without which there can be...
Côte d’Ivoire: Abidjan prepares to host first virtual World Rubber Summit
Abidjan will host, from June 8 to 11, the first virtual world summit on rubber. As a prelude to these meetings, the players in...
Morocco raises tariffs on wheat imports to 170%
Morocco is adjusting its demand for wheat, as announced in May 2021. From now on, imports of durum wheat will be subject to tariffs...
UEMOA: Food production estimated at 70 million tonnes for the 2020/2021 season
The food production of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) is estimated at 69.675 million tonnes for the 2020/2021 season, according to...
Café-Cacao: Ivorian government to award 20% of multinational purchasing contracts to local traders
The Ivorian government has endorsed the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Coffee and Cocoa Council (CCC) to systematically and compulsorily grant...
Senegal: the DER structures 19 billion CFA Francs in the cashew nut countryside
The General Delegation for the Rapid Entrepreneurship of Women and Youth (DER / FJ) structured 19 billion FCFA ($ 37 million) for the cashew...
Cameroon: increase in commodity exports
The main raw materials exported by Cameroon have experienced an improvement since the beginning of the year, breaking with the gloom observed a few...