UKRAINE — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with the financial support of Canada, has launched a new US$40 million project to address the shortage of granari... Read more

KENYA— The Kenyan Government has released Ksh 8 billion in order to finance a 4-week National maize flour subsidy programme. The Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture in cooperation with the Union... Read more

GHANA – Ghana’s Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA), under the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, has launched a Five-Year Strategic and Implementation Plan geared towards the development... Read more

US – Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national milk marketing cooperative in the US, has acquired two extended shelf-life (ESL) processing facilities from dairy manufacturer SmithFoods. The... Read more

GLOBAL— The latest report from the International Grains Council (IGC) indicates a tightening of global grain markets, mainly due to projected declines in corn and wheat, but Canola and Soy s... Read more

US – Poultry processors Cargill Inc., Sanderson Farms, and Wayne Farms have all been collectively fined US$84.8 million after conspiring to share employee wage and benefit information with o... Read more

US – Atlanta-based poultry processing company, Fit Foodz, is investing over US$15 million in constructing a new seven-acre poultry processing facility in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The company sai... Read more

IVORY COAST – Ivory Coast has launched an agro-industrial project in the Northern region of the country, aimed to transform the agro-industrial sector and stimulate inclusive agricultural gr... Read more

UGANDA – The Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) to boost development of the coffee sector in t... Read more

MOZAMBIQUE – The President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi has inaugurated the country’s largest and most modern meat processing unit in the western city of Tete. Known as the Ca... Read more