Agriculture Direct Limited (AD) is a Malawi owned private company based in Lilongwe with its office in Kanengo. It was registered in 2004 and started its full operations in 2008. Since then the company has been carrying out retail trading of supplying high quality agricultural supplies mainly for both poor resource endowed small-holder farmers and large [...]
The Government of Malawi recognizes the need to enhance the productivity of smallholder farmers as a means for achieving agricultural growth and poverty alleviation, this actualizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs have targeted agriculture as a driver of socio-economic development and recognize that food security is a pre-requisite for economic growth and poverty alleviation. [...]
The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) seeks to appoint three consultancies under the African Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) Grant to Enhance Financing Mechanism and Distribution of Fertilizers in Nigeria. JOB DESCRIPTION The appointed individuals will be responsible for one of the following: Expert Risk Assessment and Financial Analysis to Fertilizer Blenders/Suppliers To conduct due diligence, [...]
Category: SME development (capacity building, agricultural inputs demand creation, agribusiness partnership contracts (APC)/ agricultural input and output value chain development The speed at which COVID-19 spread worldwide kept many countries on the edge. Uganda was not an exception. Measures in the country were taken before it registered its first case of COVID-19. This included [...]
The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) invites eligible auditing firms to provide their services for the “Financial Audit of the Fund for African Private Sector Assistance (“FAPA”) project to increase the affordability, accessibility, and incentive for fertilizer use amongst smallholder farmers in Africa” awarded grant to AFAP by the African Development Bank. Qualified and experienced [...]
The first COVID-19 case in Tanzania was reported on 16 March 2020 in Arusha, a tourist-hub city in the Northern Zone. Since then, the number of cases has been increasing; as of 7 May 2020 Tanzania has had 480 cases of COVID-19 with 18 deaths. Tanzania has now the highest number of cases in East [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has become the defining global health crisis worldwide. It has also greatly affected African livelihoods, with particular effects felt in agricultural-inputs delivery, production systems, food security and agricultural livelihoods. Ghana: Ghana is largely an import-driven economy; the persistence of COVID-19 is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the country’s international [...]
Peter Mawindo is a sole proprietor based in Dedza, Malawi. The company is well placed to offer agricultural inputs including fertilizer, seeds and agrochemicals. Mawindo has been in this agro-based business for over 17 years. Currently Mawindo is an official distributor of SEEDCO and Yara products, among others. This has been possible because of the trust [...]
