JDLink: Monitoring & Managing Your Machine Has Never been Easier

Bimini1002015-02-27T17:54:04-05:00

The world is changing. Not only trends in social, political, and economic matters, but most urgently, in environmental matters. The global climate patterns are changing rapidly in tandem with the rising global temperature. Though low rainfall may only be a matter of passing notice for people living in cities and towns, this will affect the agricultural faction adversely. John Deere 8295R Similar occurrences around the world affecting productivity and output have called for some ways to address these problems in the [...]

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What Makes Athens Plow Model 52 Most Valuable Disc Harrow for Farmers

Bimini1002015-02-22T21:57:47-05:00

Choosing a plough for your tractor is not easy. Most farmers already have a favorite attachment that they use to clear, plant, plough and reap their fields. In fact, Jim and Mark Koenigs were the same but that was until they started cultivating soybeans and narrow-row corn. They realized that these crops left behind a large amount of residue in the form of corn stalks and soybean stems. Their ordinary field cultivator could not get through to the mat [...]

February 22, 2015 Uncategorized Comments OffRead more...

Ghanaian farmers to benefit from US$50mn MasterCard Fund

Bimini1002015-02-22T21:39:05-05:00

Canada-based MasterCard Foundation has announced it will provide a US$50mn fund to help improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Ghana by enabling agricultural businesses to extend financial services in the country. Roger Morier, senior communications manager at MasterCard Foundation, said that the goal of the fund was to transform lives by increasing access to financial services for at least one million financially excluded people living in rural and agricultural areas of Ghana. MasterCard Foundation aims to do so by supporting [...]

February 18, 2015 Uncategorized Comments OffRead more...

Argentine farmers netted 24.1 billion dollars from grains and oilseeds last year

Bimini1002015-02-22T21:35:37-05:00

Farmers sold 365 million for a total of 24.1 billion dollars of grains and oilseed last year to boost Argentina's central bank reserves, which had slid to a seven-year low in October, exporter group Ciara-Cec said in a statement. The previous record for such exports was 25.1 billion in 2011. Fourth-quarter sales helped stabilize the economy in Argentina, which gets about one-third of its export revenue from commodities. President Cristina Fernandez government persuaded farmers on Oct. 22 to stop hoarding [...]

February 16, 2015 Uncategorized Comments OffRead more...

Tanzania generates US$100mn from cotton sales

Bimini1002015-01-22T14:20:51-05:00

The Tanzanian government has revealed it has earned between US$90mn and US$100mn from cotton sales annually. Tanzania Cotton Board (TCB) noted that Tanzania’s cotton industry is facing challenges with seed germination. According to TCB, cotton is grown in 15 regions spread across two zones which are Western which includes Mwanza, Shinyanga, Simiyu, Geita, Tabora, Mara, Kigoma, Singida and Kagera, while the Eastern zone has Morogoro, Iringa, Coast, Tanga, Kilimanjaro and Manyara. “It should be clear that, there are no seed production farms [...]

February 11, 2015 Uncategorized Comments OffRead more...

New potato varieties for Kenyan county

Bimini1002015-01-22T14:16:26-05:00

Kenya’s Nyandarua County government is partnering with National Potato Council and German Technical Cooperation Agency to produce new potato varieties. Daniel Waithaka Mwangi, governor of Nyandarua County, said that the potatoes would be processed in factories to produce value-added products. "The first step will be to initiate production of clean seed of the appropriate variety and then supply them sufficiently to all potato farmers in the county and scale up the production to sustain the processing demand of the potatoes,” stated [...]

February 9, 2015 Uncategorized Comments OffRead more...

Nigerian state and IFAD invests US$10.78mn in training farmer

Bimini1002015-01-22T14:11:45-05:00

Niger State government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will invest US$10.78mn to train cassava and rice farmers in three Local Government areas of the state in Nigeria. According to IFAD, the training of the cassava and rice farmers would continue over the next six years. IFAD is the UN body that finances agriculture in poor countries. Mohammed Kuta Yahaya, commissioner for agriculture and rural development of Niger State, said, “While IFAD is expected to commit US$1.77mn to the [...]

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Cameroon to boost palm oil production

Bimini1002015-01-22T14:07:23-05:00

Cameroon plans to use better quality of seeds in its palm oil sectorto help raise production of the oil by 26 per cent over the next three years. Essimi Menye, agriculture minister of Cameroon, said that the new seeds will be planted over an additional 30,000 ha of land and are expected to boost production to 290,000 metric tonnes a year, compared with 230,000 tonnes produced currently. “About 10,000 additional ha of plantations will be planted each year. The seeds will [...]

February 2, 2015 Uncategorized Comments OffRead more...

New policy to boost Nigeria’s cotton production

Bimini1002015-01-22T14:04:35-05:00

Nigeria has unveiled National Cotton, Textile and Garment (CTG) policy and plans to increase the country's raw cotton production from 200,000 tonnes in 2003 to 500,000 tonnes by the end of 2015 Olusegun Aganga, minister of industry and trade of Nigeria, said that the new policy will boost the development and growth of the country’s cotton industry and is expected to set a target of achieving US$3bn annually from cotton exports. According to Aganga, the CTG policy will improve the [...]

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Zimbabwean farmers receive US$38mn funding for farming equipment

Bimini1002015-01-20T16:56:25-05:00

Zimbabwean farmers will receive agricultural equipment worth US$38mn from Brazil under the ‘More Food Africa’ programme to be used during the 2014-15 summer cropping season Zimbabwe-farmer-Africa RenewalThe 'More Food Africa’ programme will see farmers in Zimbabwe receive a grant of US$38mn for farming machinery. (Image source: Africa Renewal) Speaking at the 2nd National Dialogue on Agro-Business, Food and Nutrition Security set-up by the National Economic Consultative Forum and the Zimbabwe Agricultural Society, acting president, Cde Joice Mujuru stated that the first [...]

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