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GRI’s EARTH Series of radial Agriculture Tires

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GRI’s EARTH Series of radial Agriculture Tires

The GREEN XLR EARTH is one of the world’s first sustainable tire series for the agriculture segment.

Developed with 37.5% sustainable materials, it is built to nurture and protect the environment and deliver superior functional properties to drive high performance and productivity for tractors across global markets.

Designed in a novel earthy greencolor, the GREEN XLR EARTH Series is produced with a high percentage of recycled carbon black to reduce its carbon footprint.

It also incorporates soybean oil, which is renewable and sustainable, unlike petroleum-based oils, and ensures that natural rubber maintains more of its original qualities to enhance the tire’s overall performance. It also contains next-generation HD Silicawhich is a sustainable material that further improves tire performance.

Reclaimed rubber is another integral component and is sourced from end-of-life tires through a green recycling process and used to enhance the tire’s sustainable attributes and minimize its carbon footprint.

Prabhash Subasinghe, Managing Director of GRI said, “Innovation is in our DNA. Sustainability is in our souls. True to our vision to move humanity towards making a positive impact on the planet, we believe that this trailblazing launch of one of the world’s first earth-friendly tires will open a new era of high-grade agriculture tires.

It will set the stage for game-changer innovations that focus on reducing carbon emissions and greenhouse gasses. The GREEN XLR EARTH Series will help sustain our earth for future generations, scaling new heights to positively impact climate change. It will also enable farmers to do what they do best – planting, harvesting, and providing food while nurturing the earth.”

Dr Mahesha Ranasoma, Chief ExecutiveOfficer of GRI said, “Providing farmers with the ability to do what is important for their farm productivity and yield, while also presenting them with a unique opportunity to do what is best for the environment, was an emerging need that required urgent addressing. As a sustainability-driven organization, GRI is positioned well to serve this need, as we drive green initiatives through a unique value chain presented through our hallmark GREEN X Circle.

We are happy to have listened to that need and possess the capability to address it effectively through the launch of the GREEN XLR EARTH Series. We are confident that we will be able to re-affirm our continued commitment to sustainable tire manufacturing as well as earth-friendly tires for the benefit of our entire global eco-system.”

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Women smallholders will drive Africa’s transition to regenerative Agriculture

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Women smallholders will drive Africa’s transition to regenerative Agriculture

An estimated 140 million people in Africa are facing acute food insecurity yet, in Kenya alone, 50% of all productive soil is badly degraded. Worse still, because of record droughts, half of Kenyan farmers have harvested nothing in the last four seasons.

Regenerative agriculture techniques offer the world’s poorest farmers a lifeline, restoring soils and boosting yields and incomes – while at the same time sequestering carbon emissions. 80% of Kenyan farmers are women, which is why, to regenerate landscapes at scale, women must drive the change towards regenerative farming.

What do we mean by regenerative agriculture?

More carbon resides in soil than in the atmosphere and all plant life combined (IPPC). Increasingly, businesses are looking at how regenerative agriculture can help them to achieve their carbon reduction goals under SDG13. But what does the term really mean?

‘Regenerative agriculture’ covers a wide spectrum of approaches, but put simply, it’s a method of farming that rebuilds organic soil matter and restores biodiversity – while sequestering dangerous carbon emissions. Farmers plant a range of trees, plants and crops to keep vegetation in the ground, pulling the carbon out of the atmosphere and improving degraded soil. Grazing animals provide natural fertiliser, and farmers avoid soil disturbance (like ploughing) to keep carbon locked underground.

Fighting soil degradation, food insecurity and gender inequality

A report released this month, commissioned by IUCN and the UNFCCC, estimates if just 50% of farmers adopted regenerative agriculture across Africa, by 2040, we’d see a 30% reduction in soil erosion, as well as a 20% increase in soil carbon content.

Smallholder farmers supply sub-Saharan Africa with 80% of its food – so improving their productivity will have a huge impact on food security across the continent. In fact, the same report estimates if 50% of African farmers adopted regenerative agriculture, we’d see a 16% increase in daily per capita calorie intake.

Crucially, regenerative farming also builds gender equity – by providing year-round opportunities for women to earn and control their own incomes through agro-biodiversity.

In monoculture farming a single crop is harvested just once a year. That’s one harvest, and, in most cases, one lump sum controlled solely by the male head of the household. On regenerative farms, however, continuous cropping, fruit trees and livestock integration means there’s always something for women to harvest and sell, or – when times are lean – to eat. The sale of a cow (which also provides crops with fertiliser) can cover a year’s school fees. Mango and papaya trees don’t just prevent soil erosion and preserve moisture in the earth, their fruit can also be sold to neighbours. Pigeon peas or other pulses, planted alongside maize to lock nutrients in the soil, are a valuable source of protein.

Why women must be in the lead

Hand in Hand is working with IKEA Foundation to deliver training to 1,600 farmers on regenerative techniques – as part of a three-year pilot project. We believe that for regenerative agriculture to really take hold, women smallholders must have the power to make decisions about what works best for their land, without having to ask for permission.

It’s vital too that women have a say in the governance of communal resources (for example waterways and forests). That’s because individual smallholdings are just a part of a wider approach to the regeneration of landscapes and ecosystems, which, in turn, improve farmers’ soil and mitigate against the effects of climate change. What’s more, women farmers will be able to confidently make the business case for regenerative techniques to their neighbours, and, with improved advocacy skills, lobby for change at a local and national level.

Collaborating for success

In the next five years our aim is to reach half a million farmers in Kenya – that’s one in 20 of the country’s smallholders. Key to our success will be collaboration in three key areas:

Finance: By avoiding expensive commercial farm inputs we believe even the poorest smallholders will be able to transition to regenerative farming over time. We have also partnered with Kenyan banks such as Equity Bank to help farmers who choose to borrow access credit at lower levels. We’re now seeking to establish more partnerships with financial institutions and MFIs.

Measurement: As well as using UNFAO’s Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) we’re measuring transition to agroecology and improvement in soil health.

Country-wide roll out: Our goal is to implement our women-led approach across a range of landscapes, including arid and semi-arid areas, and regenerate 4,000 km2 (an area three times the size of Greater London).

Thanks to our partnership with IKEA Foundation we have developed our curriculum with global experts – and are now at the point where we are able to deliver this programme in even more rural communities. To achieve this, we are seeking new partnerships. For more information please contact cbaiocco@hihinternational.org.

Japheth Muli is Senior Programmes Officer at Hand in Hand Eastern Africa

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Ecological farming a boon for staple crop farmers in Africa, new study finds

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Ecological farming a boon for staple crop farmers in Africa, new study finds

An international team of scientists has found that eco-friendly practices such as growing a range of crops, including legumes such as beans or pigeonpea, and adding plant residues or manure to soils can raise food crop yields in places such as rural Africa, where small-scale farmers cannot apply much nitrogen fertilizer.

Published in the science journal Nature Sustainability and examining data from 30 long-running field experiments involving staple crops (wheat, maize, oats, barley, sugar beet, or potato) in Europe and Africa, this major study is the first to compare farm practices that work with nature to increase yields and explore how they interact with fertilizer use and tillage.

“Agriculture is a leading cause of global environmental change but is also very vulnerable to that change,” said Chloe MacLaren, a plant ecologist at Rothamsted Research, UK, and lead author of the paper. “Using cutting-edge statistical methods to distill robust conclusions from divergent field experiment data, we found combinations of farming methods that boost harvests while reducing synthetic fertilizer overuse and other environmentally damaging practices.”

Recognizing that humanity must intensify production on current arable land to feed its rising numbers, the paper advances the concept of “ecological intensification,” meaning farming methods that enhance ecosystem services and complement or substitute for human-made inputs, like chemical fertilizer, to maintain or increase yields.

Boosting crop yields and food security for far-flung smallholders

The dataset included results from six long-term field experiments in southern Africa led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). Africa’s farming systems receive on average only 17 kilograms of fertilizer per hectare, compared to more than 180 kilograms per hectare in Europe or close to 600 in China, according to Christian Thierfelder, a CIMMYT cropping systems agronomist and study co-author.

“In places where farmers’ access to fertilizer is limited, such as sub-Saharan Africa or the Central American Highlands, ecological intensification can complement scarce fertilizer resources to increase crop yields, boosting households’ incomes and food security,” Thierfelder explained. “We believe these practices act to increase the supply of nitrogen to crops, which explains their value in low-input agriculture.”

The CIMMYT long-term experiments were carried out under “climate-smart” conservation agriculture practices, which include reduced or no tillage, keeping some crop residues on the soil, and (again) growing a range of crops.

“These maize-based cropping systems showed considerable resilience against climate effects that increasingly threaten smallholders in the Global South,” Thierfelder added.

Benefits beyond yield

Besides boosting crop yields, ecological intensification can cut the environmental and economic costs of productive farming, according to MacLaren.

“Diversifying cropping with legumes can increase profits and decrease nitrogen pollution by reducing the fertilizer requirements of an entire crop rotation, while providing additional high-value food, such as beans,” MacLaren explained. “Crop diversity can also confer resilience to weather variability, increase biodiversity, and suppress weeds, crop pests and pathogens; it’s essential, if farmers are to improve maize production in places like Africa.”

Thierfelder cautioned that widespread adoption of ecological intensification will require strong support from policymakers and society, including establishing functional markets for legume seed and for marketing farmers’ produce, among other policy improvements.

“Dire and worsening global challenges — climate change, soil degradation and fertility declines, and scarcening fresh water — threaten the very survival of humanity,” said Thierfelder. “It is of utmost importance to renovate farming systems and bring us back into a safe operating space.”

Click here to read the paper, Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture.

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IsDB Group reaffirms commitment to agriculture development in Africa

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IsDB Group reaffirms commitment to agriculture development in Africa

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, represented by its President, H.E. Dr. Muhammad Al Jasser, has reaffirmed strong support for the development of agriculture in Africa at the “Feed Africa” Summit held in Dakar, Senegal.

The IsDB Group has long recognized the pressing need to address food insecurity and has taken action to re-establish sustainable livelihoods on the continent.

During the panel, Dr. Al Jasser highlighted the various roles that development organizations can play based on their respective mandates. He emphasized that IsDB Group is providing much-needed finance to the agricultural sector.

Reiterating IsDB Group’s commitment to supporting sustainable and inclusive agricultural value chains in Africa through its various interventions and programs, President Al Jasser underlined the importance of strengthening food sovereignty in Africa by strategically deploying necessary financial investments around three development objectives: self-sufficiency, climate change adaptation/mitigation and sustainability, and farmers’ welfare.

“In doing so, we, at IsDB Group, promote import substitution using localization strategies that play an important role in enabling traditional systems across the food value chain from production to processing, storage, and consumption,” he explained.

Elsewhere in his remarks, President Al Jasser elaborated that IsDB Group has also been supporting the development of Africa into a breadbasket for the world by investing in raising agricultural productivity, supporting infrastructure, and enhancing climate-smart agricultural systems, with private sector investments all along the food value chain. He said:

Dr. Jasser also highlighted specific interventions by the IsDB Group such as the Special Agro-processing Zones Project in Nigeria, where the Bank Group has invested US$ 160 million along with the African Development Bank.

This project aims to support the development of special agro-processing zones in high-food production areas and enable smallholder farmers and community-based service providers, including women and youth, to take advantage of the market demand created by these zones to sustainably enhance their incomes and food security.

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McKinsey co-founds effort to transform agriculture and food systems in Africa

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McKinsey co-founds effort to transform agriculture and food systems in Africa

Africa is home to roughly 780 million small-scale farmers, with 70 percent of people relying on agriculture and farming for part of their income.

While the African soil is rich, with endowments capable of producing bounties, most farmers struggle economically, consumers spend too much on food, and malnutrition and stunting in children are widespread on the continent, according to UNICEF.

“This does not need to be our reality,” says Omid Kassiri, managing partner in McKinsey’s Nairobi office. “With the right policies, infrastructure, support, and capabilities, we’ve seen that agriculture in Africa can be transformed and make a massive, meaningful difference in people’s lives.”

Change is underway but will take a concerted, multi-stakeholder effort. To bring together public, private, and NGO partners in this work, the African Agricultural Transformation Initiative (AATI) was established.

Hosted by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), an international financial institution and specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating poverty and hunger in developing countries, AATI seeks to support African countries in developing and implementing agricultural transformations. McKinsey served as an integral member of the founding coalition.

Co-founded by partners including the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IFAD, and McKinsey, AATI builds on McKinsey’s impact on agriculture and food systems across Africa, including work to increase food production that resulted in 11 million fewer undernourished people, 150,000 fewer deaths from hunger, and one hundred thousand new jobs.

McKinsey brought fact-based and practical support to several issues during these engagements: increasing farmers’ technical knowledge—what to grow, how to grow, what fertilizers to use, what practices and techniques to deploy; increasing their capacity to invest in irrigation methods, fertilizer and crop protection; research and development for crops optimized for the African climate; and creating linkages to markets to name a few.

The results inspired McKinsey to find a way to build on this work, finding a path to help launch AATI through the Fund for Social Good, a pro bono program of multiyear firm support.

“McKinsey is our vital thought leader for tools and methodologies that accelerate agricultural transformation,” says Safia Boly, executive director of AATI. “The role of McKinsey here is knowledge—of working with partners and having the reach to bring partners together, bringing digital solutions, delivery expertise, problem solving, and implementation methodologies, all of which has been essential to the establishment of the AATI.”

AATI is launching its first wave of countries to accelerate effective and sustainable food systems changes based on their needs, priorities, and existing infrastructure.

“When AATI identifies strategies for economic growth and innovation through agriculture, it is key that it be an opportunity for government and private sector,” says Safia. “There should always be a balance between the two because government will establish the environment for the private sector to flourish and drive the economic growth.”

This perspective keeps inclusive growth at its center.

We hope that AATI will grow to become a pillar of transformation across the continent. The goal is for it to be a constant driver for the transformation of the lives of millions and millions of people, country after country.

Omid Kassiri, McKinsey partner

“Our goal is to increase the percentage of small holder farmers who have become entrepreneurs. Because at the end of the day, we are trying to make agriculture a catalyst for economic growth,” says Safia.

By supporting AATI, McKinsey is not just supporting agricultural and food systems transformations. It is creating an institution that will be an enduring catalyst for change in Africa.

“We hope that AATI will grow to become a pillar of transformation across the continent,” says Omid. “The goal is for it to be a constant driver for the transformation of the lives of millions and millions of people, country after country.”

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Tanzania to host the AGRF, Africa’s Food System Forum 2023

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Tanzania to host the AGRF, Africa’s Food System Forum 2023

Tanzania will host the AGRF 2023 Summit, the announcement was made by Her Excellency Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president of the United Republic of Tanzania and H.E Hailemariam Dessalegn, the Chair of the AGRF Partners Group on the sidelines of the U.S. Africa Leaders’ Summit currently taking place in Washington, DC. 

The AGRF, Africa’s Food Systems Forum, is the premier platform for advancing the agriculture and food systems agenda on the continent; from food security to agri-food investments.

The annual Summit convenes leaders, policymakers, scientists, heads of governments and private institutions, farmers, and the youth in the agriculture and food systems landscape to discuss and agree on practical actions and solutions that drive Africa’s food security and better livelihoods for all.

The 2023 Summit aspires to position Africa as the place for innovation, investments, and to advance a stronger more diverse, and resilient food system.

The Summit will look to energize and spotlight continental progress beyond the call for aid. The Summit will showcase Africa’s solutions to Africa’s food systems transformation while spotlighting leadership, accountability, inclusion and investment opportunities in Africa in general and in Tanzania in particular.

Tanzania will be the first country to host the AGRF Summit since the forum was rebranded to Africa’s Food Systems Forum in 2022 as a reflection of the partnerships’ ambition to move forward the transformation of Africa’s food system and sustain engagement year-round.

In her remarks, Her Excellency Samia Suluhu Hassan welcomed agriculture and food systems experts, investors and stakeholders from across Africa and beyond to Tanzania for the Summit and emphasized the importance for Africa to lead on its food security for national and continental development.

She highlighted that Africa’s food security can collectively be attained if all parties join hands to advance localized solutions that drive prosperity for all urging the youth to participate in agriculture to enable faster growth of the continent’s growth.

“I am pleased to announce, that Tanzania has been selected to host the AGRF 2023 Summit. This important Forum will bring together global and local voices, will highlight investment opportunities and will be looking to do business. We must chart ways to  protect our people from the current drought and climate change impacts and we must make it possible for investments to move into this important sector.

“I have no doubt, that this Summit will provide actionable solutions for the continent and our people,” President Samia said.

H.E. Hailemariam Dessalegn congratulated and recognized Tanzania’s leadership in advancing food security and shared his appreciation to President Samia for hosting the AGRF 2023 Summit.

“The AGRF, Africa’s Food Systems Forum 2023, comes at an integral time when the continent, battered by the effects of climate change, is coming together to find solutions that safeguard lives and livelihoods. It is commendable that Tanzania is developing a national blueprint to drive its economy forward and food and agriculture will play a huge role in ensuring the country’s prosperity.

We urge all stakeholders ahead of the Summit to kickstart these vital discussions and conversations while surfacing innovative ideas that can be shared and deployed across the continent.”

The AGRF 2023 builds on the AGRF 2022 hosted by the Government of Rwanda in Kigali. It was attended by more than 2700 delegates In-Person and over 4000 online.

In 2023, the AGRF secretariat and partners will build on the conversations, agreements, and critical decisions from the AGRF 2022 Summit through in-country meetings and roadshows with leaders, farmers, and the youth.

The Summit is expected to convene critical voices in Tanzania with the aim of strengthening Africa’s food systems transformation through consensus.

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Baldan’s agricultural head for corn harvest is simply efficient

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Baldan’s agricultural head for corn harvest is simply efficient

The POTENZA – Agricultural Head for Corn Harvest is deal for many planting conditions, this equipment was designed with first-line technology to deliver the harvest with greater precision, agility and without waste.

It features a lightweight structure and compact design, providing better handling and safety at the time of harvest.

How it works

The mechanical picker snaps the ears from the stalk so that only the grain and cobs are harvested. The standing stalks are guided by shields or snouts to pass between counter-rotating rollers that pull the stalks down and through very sharply, snapping the ears free.

The husking mechanism, consisting of closely spaced, counter-rotating rollers, tears the husks away. Pickers may be pulled behind a tractor and power-takeoff driven or mounted directly on the tractor, one unit on each side, to form a two-row harvester.

About Baldan

Baldan is a Brazilian agriculture machinery manufacturer that specializes in developing products with advanced engineering concepts, which are intended for tillage and planting of various types of crops. It has a product line dedicated to sugarcane farming and also agricultural platform for corn harvesting.

 

Row Independent Maize Harvester

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Row Independent Maize Harvester

The cutter and feeder drum carries the maize to the feeding unit. Agrimerin row independent maize chopper’s feeding system is designed to feed the flywheel at right angles for the best quality silage.

The flywheel is equipped with 12 special hardened knives revolving at nearly 540 rpm. There are two feeder drums and two pressure rollers that control the feeding of the maize to the flywheel. One of the pressure rollers is spring loaded and toothed, while the other one is not.

The pressure rollers are vertically mounted right behind the feeder drums so that stems and cobs are always chopped at right angle. This is the secret of the machine’s low power requirement and short length of chop. One of the most important specification of the machine is its foldable chassis.

The chassis can be folded so that the machine stays behind of the tractor. By driving backwards the machine can open a way in the middle of the field in order to decrease the number of turns on the field and decrease the fuel consumption of tractor.

While in operation, height adjustable wheel maintain an even working height thus preventing the intake of earth and stones in bad conditions. Knife grinding is easily carried out with the built-in sharpening device. The height of the machine can be reduced by folding down the upper part of the chute.

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This Potato Harvester from Agrimerin is phenomenon

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This Potato Harvester from Agrimerin is phenomenon

Potato harvester with two rows are produced for harvesting two rows of potatoes with 60-70 cm distance between rows.

The harvester works by removing the potato out of soil and sieves with the help of the rear sifter.

It is more efficient to operate the harvester in a speed between 10-12 km/hr. You must lubricate the machine during use. Simple operation of settings and for maintanance designed for easy harvest even in difficult conditions.

This machine is suitable for small to middle level farmers especially in Africa.

Agrimerin is one of the specialized company, established for worldwide demand of mechanization in agricultural sector to simplify farmer’s responsibility in various farm condition and greater productivity.

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NAMPO Harvest Day (May 2023), Bothaville South Africa

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NAMPO Harvest Day (May 2023), Bothaville South Africa

Grain SA’s NAMPO Harvest Day is one of the largest agricultural exhibitions under private ownership in the southern hemisphere and it takes place annually, just outside of the town of Bothaville, in the Free State province of South Africa.

In 2023 it is on the from the 16th to the 19th of May at NAMPO Park, Bothaville.

The first NAMPO Harvest Day was held in 1967, on the farm, Donkerhoek, near Bloemfontein and was attended by 200 producers. Thereafter the Harvest Day was held on various farms until the size of the event started necessitating a more permanent venue.

In 1974 the NAMPO Harvest Day was therefore established on a permanent terrain outside Bothaville, which is today known as NAMPO Park.

Grain SA’s NAMPO Harvest Day enables producers and other role players in the agricultural industry to experience the latest technology and products on offer in the farming industry first-hand and on one terrain. The NAMPO Harvest Day also offers producers the opportunity to obtain knowledge from experts in their various agricultural fields by means of debating and discussion panels.

Event Date May 16th, 2023
End Date May 19th, 2023
Website http://www.grainsa.co.za
Venue NAMPO Park, Bothaville, South Africa

 

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