IFAD program to improve agricultural productivity in rainfed Asia holds annual meeting
Increasing the productivity of rainfed agriculture, which still supplies some 60 percent of the world's food, would make a significant impact on global food production.This highlights the im ... Read More

The New and Bolder HORTINEWS
Horticultural News has rebranded to HortiNews, in line with the changing challenges of this era. Hortinews magazine is fresh crisp and modern to cement its position as the Number ... Read More

Prince Charles closes his organic store
Britain's weak economy has taken its toll on the nation's poshest greengrocer with Prince Charles forced to close his organic vegetable store, citing falling trade and rising prices. ... Read More

Aquisition leads to largest plant business in UK
  Earlier this month the management of Landgard UK has finalised a management buy-out of the business from German parent company Landgard. The company which was rebranded as Verde Hort ... Read More

Merger between Agribio and Dümmen
Breeding and young plant production companies Dümmen and Agribio Group have successfully closed their intended merger. The new company will continue as from now under the name DNA Green ... Read More

The growing potential of Kenyan flowers amaze the world
Kenya’s flower sector bud is throbbing and about to burst its colourful petals. The industry is on the verge of scoring another first by making the country home to the largest sector show. ... Read More

The Netherlands: Florimex is bankrupt
  Yesterday Florimex, the Dutch holding of exporters Florimex bv, Disva, Starkenburg, Baardse and Sierafor, has asked for bankruptcy. After Ciccolella Holding in February, this is a se ... Read More

Five measures that County governments MUST take to improve agriculture productivity and reduction of poverty
      By Raphael Omondi via facebook Track 1. Improving productiv ... Read More

Hope for avocado as Kenya sets wasps on fruit flies
Kenya has released imported wasps to fight the invader fruit fly paving the way for the lifti ... Read More

Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project transforming the lives of smallholder farmers through modern technology
The Kenya Horticulture Competitiveness Project (KHCP), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is transforming the lives of smallholder farmers through enhanced p ... Read More

FOOD SECURITY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
  The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a US $57.66-million loan agreement for the multinational Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Program (DRSLP) in the Horn of ... Read More

Equity Bank’s Strategy Increases Profits by 36 percent
Pictured:Equity Bank Group CEO Dr. James Mwangi during the investors briefing on financial results for the period ending December 2012. Re ... Read More

Equity Group Foundation and The MasterCard Foundation welcome 2,907 new students to the Wings To Fly Program
  Equity Group Foundation and The MasterCard Foundation has added 2,907 scholars to its ever growing ... Read More

Farmers start potato processing in Kenya
Pictured: Midlands Chairman Junghae Wainaina in his office at the factory. Eight years after the foundation stone was laid, the  Nyandarua-based potato processing fac ... Read More

KENYA FLOWERS ARE GROWN RESPONSIBLY! Jane Ngige, CEO Kenya Flower Council
In the past weeks, the Kenyan flower industry has been subjected to negative profiling in the media in the Netherlands, as a result of campaigns by an NGO, HIVOS People Unlimited, to discredi ... Read More