New Holland BR7060 Round Baler

Bimini1002015-05-12T15:28:10-05:00

      Introducing the New Holland BR7060 Silage Special Roll-Belt Round Baler - a shift to innovation and simplicity New Holland Agriculture has been fulfilling the requirements of farmers and ranchers across North America for over a century. The New Holland BR7060 Silage Special Roll-Belt Round Baler is the latest addition to our store: https://store.tractorexport.com/index.php/implements-attachments/harvesting-implements/balers/new-holland-br7060-silage-special-round-baler.html Why a Roll-Belt Round Baler? Balers extract loose grass or straw from the fields & compress them into compact masses of even sizes. Agricultural producers most often prefer large round balers [...]

May 12, 2015 Uncategorized Comments OffRead more...

Honeycomb Drone: A Revolutionary Leap In Large Scale Farm Management

Bimini1002015-04-30T16:00:06-05:00

The HoneyComb Corporation is a company that is dedicated to providing solutions to large scale farming management institutions, by developing technologically advanced gadgets that collect data and provide solutions for challenges faced by farmers and companies investing in the farming business. The Agdrone(TM) System is the latest development in agricultural drones. What is the Agdrone(TM) System The Agdrone(TM) System is a robot that flies over vast portions of agricultural land to monitor the crops and the land itself, irrigation channels and [...]

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Rwanda aims to protect unique plant varieties

Bimini1002015-04-12T20:32:59-05:00

A recent intellectual property workshop has prompted interest in protecting Rwanda’s unique plants The event, organised by the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) along with Rwanda Development Board (RDB), was hosted in Kigali and attended by researchers, breeders and government officials. Plant varieties have become an increasingly important form of intellectual property due to the substantial investments involved in creating new breeds and the government is looking at building protection into its overall agriculture policy. ARIPO director-general Fernandos de Santos said [...]

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NAIC aims to insure five million Nigerian farmers

Bimini1002015-04-12T20:29:47-05:00

Plans have been put in place to double the number of Nigerian farmers with crop insurance. The revelation was made by Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) managing director Bode Opadokun, who said that the company aimed to increase the number of insured farmers from its current two million to as many as five million. Speaking to journalists in Lagos this week, Opadokun added that the corporation’s plans included increasing its premium income by a minimum of 40 per cent by the [...]

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Smartphone technology revolutionising African farming

Bimini1002015-04-12T20:26:58-05:00

As Internet access has broadened in Africa, technology firms have been able to reach an ever wider audience. That trend is set to continue, with half of Africa’s one billion people predicted to have Internet access by 2025, according to consultancy firm McKinsey & Co, who also predicted that 360mn smartphones will be in use in the continent in the next ten years. Under these conditions, mobile technology has been revolutionising the way African farmers do business. One such example is Kenyan [...]

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Ethiopian farming data released by World Bank

Bimini1002015-04-12T20:16:00-05:00

The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) has released data from the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) carried out alongside the World Bank last month The survey, a joint project between the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) and the Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency (CSA), included data on agricultural practices, as well as other indicators of socioeconomic well being. The project is the eighth of its kind in Africa, with the World Bank having implemented similar programmes in Burkina Faso, [...]

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Funding scheme aims to strengthen African value chain

Bimini1002015-04-12T20:13:16-05:00

The third round of the FoodTrade East and Southern Africa (ESA) Challenge Fund was launched this month The UK-funded programme aims to encourage innovative funding proposals from businesses in agricultural staple value chains in East and southern Africa, providing grants to of up to 49 percent of the total investment cost to successful applicants. This round will award grants from £100,000 to £1,000,000 to companies doing business in two or more countries covered by FoodTrade ESA, that propose innovative investments to [...]

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Mobile agro-weather tool developed in Kenya

Bimini1002015-04-12T20:11:28-05:00

A new agro-weather tool has been developed in Kenya to help local farmers Liberian rice traders will be the first target of the investment initiative. The web- and mobile-based tool was developed by the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Organisation (KALRO) and provides farmers with real-time weather forecasts. Financed by the World Bank under the Bank Netherlands Partnership Programme (BNPP) on sustainable development climate change window, the tool incorporates climate information and best-bet agronomic management recommendations for farmers. Farmers register online or through their [...]

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New centre to give training on sustainable farming in Zambia

Bimini1002015-04-05T21:06:33-05:00

German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) has announced it will open Zambian-German Agricultural Knowledge Centre (AKTC) to offer sustainable agricultural techniques to the farmers of the southern African country Zambia-farmerTogether with the private sector partners and the expertise of the implementing consortium, AKTC plans to become a state-of-art training centre in Zambia. (Image source: WorldFish/Flickr) BMEL plans to launch the centre in April 2015, it said. According to BMEL, AKTC will conduct trainings for machine operators, farm managers, agricultural institutions, farm [...]

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African farmers turn to climate-smart agriculture

Bimini1002015-04-05T20:55:51-05:00

Farmers in Africa are increasingly embracing climate-smart agriculture, a recently released book has claimed African farmers turn to climate-smart agricultureClimate-smart agriculture aims to increase productivity using a number of sustainable farming techniques. (Image source: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade/Flickr) Evidence of Impact: Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa was written by researchers from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in collaboration with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). At a time when the effects [...]

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