China tops with 8.733 million metric tons in grain purchase as marketing year officially starts
CHINA – China becomes the largest buyer of corn and sorghum from USA after it…
Sorghum
Kenyan sorghum farmers set to bag more earning in a new EABL trade deal
KENYA – The East African Breweries Limited (EABL) has entered into a trade deal with…
SNV implements US$2.1m project targeting East Africa’s agribusiness companies
EAST AFRICA – SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, a non-profit international development organisation is implementing a…
Tongaat Hulett increases hectares to be put under winter maize project to 2,000ha
ZIMBABWE – Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe (THZ) has availed 2 000 hectares for this year’s food initiative…
Tanzania Breweries launches partnership to support sorghum farmers
TANZANIA – Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL), a subsidiary of AB InBev has partnered with the…
Delta injects $11m into sorghum contract farming to boost production
ZIMBABWE – Delta Corporation, Zimbabwe’s largest beverage manufacturer, has injected more than $11 million into…
Ghana Commodity Exchange adds Sorghum, Sesame to its electronic trading platform
GHANA – The Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX) has added sorghum and sesame seed contracts to…
Japanese consortium to fund Kenyan small-scale sorghum processors
KENYA – A consortium of private firms from Japan have rolled out an initiative to…
Research institution develops new drought-tolerant seed cultivars to boost food security in Ghana
GHANA – The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI)…
South Africa’s sorghum output to drop 9% to 100,000T in 2018/19
SOUTH AFRICA – Sorghum production in South Africa is on the decline and according to…
China’s grain imports fall on rising prices and impact of US tariffs
ASIA – China’s sorghum imports in July declined by 62.5% to 220,000 tonnes from 588,364…
Chinese sorghum importers to visit US amid trade tension
USA – Top importers of sorghum from China are set to visit the United States…
KBL pledges to source 100% of raw materials locally for its new Kisumu plant
KENYA – Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL), a subsidiary of Diageo Plc has announced that it…
Botswana turns to South Africa and Zambia for maize imports
BOTSWANA – Botswana continues to import 170,000 metric tonnes of maize annually as it has…
Trade tension soothing as China drops sanctions against US sorghum
CHINA – China through the Ministry of Commerce announced on May 18 that it was…
New flour blending law to utilize other local grains to curb food shortage
KENYA – The Kenyan government is seeking to enact a regulation that will require millers…
EABL reaches out to sorghum farmers ahead of new plant opening
KENYA – East African Breweries Limited (EABL) has intensified its outreach to farmers ahead of…
US Grains Council, sorghum industry respond to China anti-dumping rules
CHINA – The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) and sorghum industry led by the National Sorghum…
KBL targets 15,000 sorghum farmers as brewery set up continues
KENYA – Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) targets to recruit 15,000 sorghum farmers in the lakeside…
Local sourcing initiative impacts over 175,000 lives – Guinness Ghana
GHANA – Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) has held a stakeholder’s workshop to showcase and…
China may face ‘tight’ corn supplies, due to subsidy, demand reforms
CHINA – China, which last year held more than one half of world corn stocks,…
IGC ups world grains harvest to second largest on record
WORLD – The International Grains Council lifted its estimate for the world grains harvest to…
Nigeria becomes World’s second leading sorghum producer
NIGERIA – Nigeria’s agricultural production of sorghum has leaped to the second place, now trailing…
Flour Mills set to maximise sorghum usage, local materials
NIGERIA – Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc, said it plans to maximise local content in the agro-allied investments, emphasising that the company is determined to ensure success in such investments.