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Africa loses millions of dollars to aflatoxins

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020NBE

By Tandong Calistus Jong – Africa cumulatively loses more than 670 million US Dollars annually in lost exports trade alone due to aflatoxin contamination, because major agricultural commodities such as maize, groundnuts and spices produced in the continent contain aﬂatoxin levels that are unacceptable for the European and other global markets.

ILRI introduces French chicken with Ethiopian farmers

August 15, 2020NBE

BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE – The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has introduced to Ethiopian farmers a more productive French variety chicken.

Ethiopian pastoralists receive insurance compensation for livestock loss

February 20, 2017August 16, 2018NBE

Oromia Insurance Company (OIC) on Saturday payout 1.6 million birr in livestock insurance compensation to 1,474 pastoralists in Borena and West Guji zones of Oromia Region.