Before the project begun, Banana Investment Limited was considered a bad neighbour just like 90% of factories in Eastern Africa. Read more
Improving lives through
sustainable bioinnovations
sustainable bioinnovations
Before the project begun, Banana Investment Limited was considered a bad neighbour just like 90% of factories in Eastern Africa. Read more
The Tanzania Minister for Communication, Science and Technology Prof. Makame Mbarawa on 28th April 2015 presided over the official opening of the SIDA funded wastewater Read more
Kenya and Tanzania are the world’s second and third largest producers of sisal, Agave sisalana, with a number of large plantation estates and processing factories. However, this high productivity is accompanied with huge amounts of waste. The sector is considered one of the highest waste sectors.
Sweet potato is the second most important tuber crop in Uganda and haspotential to provide food security to many resource poor rural homesteads, and in particular regions that traditionallyhave poor soils and whose weather partners have become erratic ostensibly due to climate change. Unlike other subsistence crops, it can stay in the ground after maturity for between three to five months, thereby providing food for families for much longer.
Kenya and Tanzania are the world’s second and third largest producers of sisal, Agave sisalana, with a number of large plantation estates and processing factories.
Bio-Innovate has invested heavily on partnership as its strategy to deliver bioscience and bio-resource innovations to the end user.
On 26 June 2012, the Bio-Innovate Program Management Team (PMT) met with high-level officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) during its monitoring and review mission of the Program supported projects in Ethiopia to discuss the Program progress in general and ongoing implementation of projects in Ethiopia.
In most of Africa, sweetpotato and cassava are the staple food and nutrition security crops that play a key role as food security and income generating crops particularly when the mainstream crops e.g. cereals have poor harvests.
Kenyan farmers are bearing the brunt of strict European Union (EU) regulations on pesticides which threaten to cripple the horticulture sector.
