[Biz-Community] Sugar producer Tongaat Hulett (TON) says its headline earnings per share for the year ended March 2012 are expected to be 839 cents per share - a 10% increase on last year's 761 cents. … [Read more...]

[The Herald] GOVERNMENT has intervened in the cotton pricing dispute between farmers and merchants, with Cabinet on Tuesday tasking Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Dr Joseph Made to meet stakeholders to find an amicable solution within the coming week. … [Read more...]

[Biz-Community] The requirements of the new 'food labelling' legislation presents an enormous opportunity for the advertising profession. … [Read more...]

[Daily Observer] Buygambiaonline.com is a complete online shopping service that facilitates buying and selling of Gambian products and services targeting Gambian producers and buyers in the diaspora. … [Read more...]

[EA Business] Dar es Salaam - African Barrick Gold plc (ABG), one of the largest gold producers in Africa said it expects to increase gold production by about 300,000 ounces a year in the next two years. … [Read more...]

[EA Business] Dar es Salaam - A fall in gold production caused by the cost of operation due to unreliable power supply makes Tanzania's dream to be among the fourth biggest producers in Africa difficult to realise. … [Read more...]

[The Star] This month, after almost a decade of intense debate, Kenya is expected to become the third country in Sub-Saharan Africa - after South Africa and Burkina Faso - to approve the commercial planting of genetically modified (GM) crops. … [Read more...]

[The Star] Most Farmers in North Rift still have surplus maize but they are unwilling to sell until prices go up, the Star has established. Early this month, millers said they faced a maize shortage and the stock they had could only last two weeks. A bag of 90 kilogrammes of maize has increased to Sh3,200 from Sh2,900 in February. Some farmers have sold their … [Read more...]

[Zimbabwe Independent] ZIMBABWE has been forced to import maize from Zambia to avert starvation as a result of a massive maize deficit largely attributed to the country's disastrous agricultural policies. … [Read more...]

[New Times] Tired of losing inestimable revenues due to the increasing value of smuggled liquor, Rwanda Revenue Authority has introduced tax stamps for all imported alcoholic beverages. … [Read more...]

[The Star] MAIZE farmers in Nandi county were yesterday put on high alert over the emergence of a strange fungal-related disease that is threatening to wipe out the crop in the area. … [Read more...]

[Penguin Books] The following extract from Terry Crawford Browne's new book, Eye on the Diamonds examines "how diamonds link the colonial and apartheid histories of South Africa with the close histories of Israel and Palestine". … [Read more...]