Kenya's tea sector continued on the upswing with good returns in earnings last year, recording US$920 million (Ksh69 billion) in revenue from exports to its traditional markets in Europe.
10 March 2010, 12:10am

TANZANIA Coffee Board (TCB) will this year introduce an indicative price system to enable farmers fetch competitive prices and curb illegal smuggling of the cash crop to the neighbouring countries.
9 March 2010, 9:14pm

Acting President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday ordered the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL) and the National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO), Itakpe to resume operation.
9 March 2010, 12:19pm

The manager at the Ndugukebbeh groundnut buying centre ('Secco"), Sambou M. Sonko has informed this reporter that he has paid all farmers who sold their nuts to his secco on credit basis. Mr. Sonko made this statement at the village "Secco" on Tuesday 2nd March, 2010 in an interview with this reporter on the plight of those farmers who complained that they were yet to receive their money after they sold their nuts on credit basis.
9 March 2010, 10:30am

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, coffee was Uganda's cash cow. Over the years the crop's production and performance on global markets has dwindled. Coffee production is dropping in the wake of increased demand and consumption for the crop globally.
9 March 2010, 10:26am

Kenya consumes more than three million bags of maize per month, which translates to 40 million bags a year. This figure is increasing as the population grows. The country depends on its farmers to produce about 24 to 32 million bags each year, the large variation being due to that fact that farming is rain-fed rather than based on irrigation, leading to large variations in yield per acre.
9 March 2010, 8:14am

DESPITE expert warnings about Zimbabwe's indigenisation policy, Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) says it will go ahead with its scheduled commissioning of the R3,4bn Unki Mine development in the third quarter of this year.
8 March 2010, 2:27pm

Tanzanite One General Manager, Nick Hughes has dismissed speculations that the precious blue minerals of Mererani were about to disappear saying a very small fraction of the mining hills was being mined at the moment.
8 March 2010, 11:31am

The much awaited bulky petroleum procurement system is expected to start in September.
8 March 2010, 11:04am

Tati Nickel mine general manager Sebetlela Sebetlela has denied accusations that the mine and its contractors lean more towards hiring expatriates than locals.
8 March 2010, 9:25am