AfDB Donates Fund to Boost Agriculture Research in Africa
October 16, 2013| |
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has donated US$63 M to research companies in Africa to help them undertake projects aimed at boosting the continent's agricultural production. Freddie Kwesiga, the AfDB's representative in Zambia, stated that science-based agriculture was vital in strengthening food security across the continent, thus the development bank had issued funding in Africa to conduct research in order to enhance production. Kwesiga added that researches are being conducted on various crops that do not mainly depend on the level of rainfall such as soya and beans to boost production and enhance food security in the continent.
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