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Greetings and warm welcome to our 1 issue of Framers Review Africa for the year 2017 We are excited to bring you yet another edition where we strive to give you informative, yet exciting content so that you can be glued in the magazine. Africa is projected to have a population of about 2.7 billion by 2060, providing policymakers, Governments and the public with a tough task: feeding a population that will nearly triple in 50 years, and which has been struggling to produce enough to feed its current population. Low agricultural productivity, hunger, malnutrition and food wastage are some of the challenges that confront the continent ' s agribusiness industry. �e continent also lacks adequate capability to add value to its produce, exporting most of this in raw form, only to export it back at much higher prices. African countries are required to boost agricultural productivity and enhance value addition of their produce to achieve economic and social stability. It is sad that a majority of these countries are grappling with how to achieve these goals. Our edition of Farmers Review Africa has taken that into consideration, hence we seek to help farmers in addressing some of the challenges bedevilling the industry, bring in new innovations and ways to make agriculture a sustainable industry. Some of the articles include Livestock weighing and identi cation systems, milking machines, animal husbandry, green manuring and irrigation farming. Hazera, the vegetable seed company, has had a long history of breeding cucumbers and has made game-changing improvements in cucumber genetics, thus we give a detail on this development. Scientists from Kenya ' s Meru University of Science and Technology have come up with one way to deal with the problem: a mobile app that monitors the need for water in elds and controls irrigation equipment to deliver just what is needed. Looking ahead, Farmers Review Africa will continue to serve our readers. Information about the farmer is just as important as the relationship with the farmer. We will continue to strive for balanced reporting and earning the highest respect from our readers. We feel strongly that if our product is right for readers, then it is right for advertisers. Bertha M.
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