February 28, 2017/Syngenta Syngenta (www.Syngenta.com)’s Seedcare program for smallholder farmers in Senegal has led to impressive yield increases for pearl millet (1.2 t/ha, +40%), sorghum (1.1 t/ha, +86%), maize (2.7 t/ha, +101%), irrigated rice (9.4 t/ha, +11%) and rain-fed rice (2.0 t/ha, +33%). The achievements from year one of the […]
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Call for candidates for 7th Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa, Middle East
February 28, 2017/Orange Applications for the 7th edition of the Orange (www.Orange.com) Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East (OSVPAM) are being accepted until 6 June 2017 21:00 GMT in the “Orange Social Venture Prize” pages of the website www.EntrepreneurClub.orange.com. As in previous years, the OSVPAM will be […]
UAC of Nigeria Plc: Have the bears overdone it?
Culled—Proshare February 27, 2017/ARM Research Recently, the share price of UAC of Nigeria Plc (UACN) succumbed to bearish sentiments, hitting an eight-year low of N12.02 on the 23rd of February 2017. The scale of the sell-offs placed UACN among a handful of stocks which have lost at least 80% of […]
