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TOMRA Food and Ortofrutticola Parma: Selected quality, from the earth to the table
With an important presence in the fruit and vegetable sector, Ortofrutticola Parma is dedicated to the production, storage, packaging and...
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TOMRA Food joins WBCSD
TOMRA Food designs and manufactures sensor-based sorting machines and integrated post-harvest solutions for the food industry, using the world’s most...
Read moreDanfoss efficiencies help South African farmers to free up energy and achieve production goals
The importance of energy efficiency in assisting with adequate irrigation is of paramount importance. Danfoss, together with engineering components provider...
Read moreTOMRA INSIGHT, THE POWERFUL INDUSTRY 4.0 DATA PLATFORM FOR ENHANCING SORTING AND GRADING EFFICIENCIES, IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY
Following its successful launch last year by TOMRA Sorting Recycling, TOMRA Insight is now also being made available to TOMRA...
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TOMRA Food and Ortofrutticola Parma: Selected quality, from the earth to the table
With an important presence in the fruit and vegetable sector, Ortofrutticola Parma is dedicated to the production, storage, packaging and...
Danfoss efficiencies help South African farmers to free up energy and achieve production goals
The importance of energy efficiency in assisting with adequate irrigation is of paramount importance. Danfoss, together with engineering components provider...
TOMRA INSIGHT, THE POWERFUL INDUSTRY 4.0 DATA PLATFORM FOR ENHANCING SORTING AND GRADING EFFICIENCIES, IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY
Following its successful launch last year by TOMRA Sorting Recycling, TOMRA Insight is now also being made available to TOMRA...
Compac launches its next generation sorting platform designed to futureproof packhouse businesses
Compac, part of the TOMRA Food family, launches the most advanced sorting platform in the industry: the TOMRA 5S Advanced....
FERTILIZERS
The Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism, OCP Africa team up to increase access to fertilizers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has approved the participation of the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) (www.AfDB.org/en/affm) in a $4...
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Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism launches $2.2 mill project in Nigeria to boost fertilizer supply to 200,000 farmers
he Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) has kick-started a $2.2 million project to provide fertilizer suppliers in Nigeria with financial...
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Cape Town farmers plead with SA government to ban glyphosate
Livestock producer, Farmer Angus, is pleading with the South African government to ban the use of glyphosate. The herbicide is...
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CLIMATE CHANGE
UNHCR flies in relief for Somalis cut off by flooding
Somalia has shown progress in dealing with both armed conflict and drought, but remains fragile, with an internally displaced population...
To tackle climate change we need to rethink our food system
The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is clear from the newly released...
113 million people in 53 countries experienced acute food insecurity in 2018
BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 2, 2019/APO Group/ --A report presented today jointly by the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of...
One Planet Summit to focus on climate change
One Planet Summit will be held in Nairobi on 14 March 2019, focussing on crucial point about climate change The...
FRUITS
Compac overcomes challenges of pandemic to deliver full satisfaction and a successful cherry season to customers in Turkey and Uzbekistan
In a cherry season that was like no other before, Compac, its distributor ICOEL and Turkish agent Sardas demonstrated how...
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Big week for South African citrus
hile growers in South Africa’s early production regions are getting ready to pack their first fruit of the 2019 season,...
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- African Development Bank’s AgriPitch competition awards $120,000 in prizes to African youth “agripreneurs”Download logoThe founder of a cassava processing business in Kenya, a co-founder of a novel food processing technology start-up, and the owner of a smallholder farmer food procurement company in Nigeria won the top cash prizes in the African Development Bank’s (https://www.AfDB.org/) $120,000 AgriPitch competition on Tuesday. The AgriPitch competition offered young entrepreneurs in Africa’s […]
- International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) to enhance Groundnut Oil Quality Standards and boost Senegalese Export CapabilitiesThe International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) (www.ITFC-IDB.org), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, has approved a Grant Agreement for the Senegalese Groundnut Oil Processing Company, SONACOS, to acquire new laboratory analysis equipment. The Technical Assistance will enable SONACOS to acquire equipment that will specifically enable the company to ensure that its […]
- Virtual agrofood & plastprintpack Africa on 23 to 26 November 2020: All set for the most prestigious virtual industry event to dateDownload logoThe figures of Virtual agrofood & plastprintpack Africa 2020 (www.Virtual-Africa.net) speak for themselves, and the German organiser fairtrade and its many African partners have every reason to be proud of this enormous success. “With 1,000+ registered attendees from 73 countries (https://bit.ly/3kBgiN1), 75 speakers (https://bit.ly/3kCc0Fl), 45 panel sessions, presentations & product demos (https://bit.ly/2H4xdtF) and exhibitors […]
- 25 young African agripreneurs advance to ‘boot camp’ in the African Development Bank’s $120,000 AgriPitch CompetitionTwenty-five young African agripreneurs have advanced to the “boot camp” final round of the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) AgriPitch competition, stepping closer to a share of $120,000 in seed funding prizes, training and other benefits. The final round offers young entrepreneurs in Africa’s agricultural sector the opportunity to pitch their agribusiness proposals online to a […]
- The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation Launches Four-Part Documentary Series on West African Cotton SectorThe International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) (www.ITFC-IDB.org), member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, will be releasing a series of four short documentaries on its extensive cotton sector trade finance and development interventions in West Africa. Called the White Gold Series, the documentary will air on CNBC Africa from 9 to 12 November […]
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