Kenya has announced major reductions in agricultural input prices ahead of the October short rains, with certified maize seed prices set to fall by 50% from KSh300 to KSh150 per bag. The government will also cut the price of a 50kg bag of subsidised fertiliser by KSh500, from KSh2,500 to KSh2,000. The changes are expected ...

The Nigerian government has launched the South-East phase of its Farm Input Support Programme (FISP), providing more than 80,000 bags of fertiliser to over 20,000 smallholder farmers as part of efforts to increase agricultural production and strengthen national food security. The programme, implemented through the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF), was officially launched in Owerri, ...