Sai R Karuturi, founder and MD of Karuturi Global MUMBAI: Karuturi Global Ltd, the world’s largest organised player in the floriculture industry, plans to invest $100 million for setting up a sugarcane crushing plant in Ethiopia (Africa). “We will invest $100 million in a phased manner to set up a sugarane plant in Ethiopia. The first phase of the plant is expected to be operational by October... 

David Tibo tilling his fields with the new oxen he was able to buy thanks to the profits he turned during his first year as a P4P participant. Copyright: WFP/Judith Schuler AWASSA (WFP) – David says taking his produce to market used to mean getting cheated by local middlemen. But that was before the farming cooperative he belongs to got involved with the Purchase for Progress (P4P) programme in... 

Aflatoxins in contaminated maize can be lethal There is growing alarm among Kenyan farmers about a government announcement that 2.3m bags of maize were unfit for human consumption. Health experts say the maize contained high levels of lethal aflatoxins, which have killed at least one child. The government has pledged to buy and destroy the contaminated maize. The crop was harvested in the drought-...