SOURCE: TOGO First Thanks to the PROCAT, Togo’s pineapple sector recorded major improvements in the last four years. Indeed, according to the national team coordinating the sector, due to the project which aimed to make the pineapple industry more competitive, output, processed volumes, jobs, and exports (of dry, fresh, andContinue Reading
SOURCE: Ayi Renaud Dossavi, Togo First Between 2017 and 2019, Togo’s pineapple output grew by 11.6%, from 27,000 tons to 30,149 tons. The sector, which employs more than 3,200 producers, generated over CFA6 billion per year (USD 11 million) over the period reviewed. Out of this sum, the State got moreContinue Reading
For West African mango growers, a small pest is the biggest enemy: the fruit fly. Since the arrival of Bactrocera dorsalis—a highly invasive species of fruit fly native to Asia—in 2005, mango growers have lost over 50 percent of their orchards by the middle of the season each year. AsContinue Reading
In the Central Valley of Togo, a mango grower named Yacuobuo started killing his trees due to fruit-fly infestation that has decimated his crop over the past three years. In this main mango-growing region of Africa, many other small farmers face the same dilemma. And their loss extendsContinue Reading