Tanzania
Horticulture has quietly become Tanzania’s biggest agricultural export earner, bringing in around 569 million US dollars in 2024, ahead of tobacco and cashew, and aiming at two billion by 2030. The bottleneck now is not growing the crop. It is getting it to a...
Ghana
For years the biggest question in Ghana’s fertilizer trade was what the government would tender for. Ministry procurement moved large volumes under the subsidy programme, COCOBOD procured separately for cocoa, and a few large suppliers handled most of what...
Tanzania
No Tanzanian smallholder walks past subsidised urea. When a bag that cost around 131,000 shillings comes down closer to 70,000, that is what most farmers buy, and arguing otherwise wastes everyone’s time. The useful question is why a bag that should transform a...
Tanzania
An importer evaluating a new fertilizer supplier is not really assessing the fertilizer. They are assessing whether it can be registered, whether it arrives on time, whether the documentation survives inspection, and whether they can move it once it lands. The...
Tanzania
Tanzania is planting avocado at a pace few countries have attempted. More than 1.7 million subsidised seedlings are being distributed, thousands of farmers and hundreds of extension officers are being trained, and collection centres are going up across the producing...
Kenya
The acidity that stunts maize in Kericho and Nandi is the same acidity tea wants. A tea bush is happiest around pH 4.5 to 5.5, roughly where a maize crop starts failing. So a smallholder with tea on one side of the road and maize on the other is farming two crops with...
