Fat baobabs, some more than half a millennium old, have endured across Senegal, passed over for lumber largely because their wood is too brittle and spongy for use in furniture. Baobab leaves are mixed with couscous and eaten, the trees’ bark stripped to make rope, their fruit and seeds used for drinks and oils.
The Agricultural Productivity Programme for Southern Africa (APPSA) has seen over 3 million people benefiting from agricultural technologies and innovations in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia, said APPSA coordinator, Dr Monica Murata.
The revenue of the preserved sweet corn market in the European Union amounted to $459M in 2017, remaining relatively unchanged against the previous year.
Estimates for global grain production for 2019-20 dropped by 21 million tonnes from the previous month largely due to a slow start to U.S. corn plantings, the International Grains Council (IGC) said on June 27.
A massive freshwater sea has been discovered off the North East coast of the US, beneath the Atlantic Ocean no less.
We’re used to seeing some strange things emanate from the Twitter account of Donald Trump. By all means, he is the world’s first “social media president”. But the divisive politician managed to send South Africa into a frenzy last year when he weighed-in on the land expropriation debate.
