ESWATINI COFFEE BUILDS SHADE-GROWN VALUE CHAIN AS 130 FARMERS CHASE RISING DEMAND

BY: PHESHEYA KUNENE | EDITOR  NGCULWINI — Eswatini Coffee is building a climate-smart coffee value chain that links smallholder farmers,…

US BROTHERS DRIVE PLANT-TO-PLATE FOOD SECURITY PROJECT INTO ESWATINI SCHOOLS

BY: PHESHEYA KUNENE | EDITOR  ST JOSEPH’S – A school garden may look like a small patch of soil. But…

AGRIBUSINESS MONTHLY JULY 2026

NMC Opens White Maize Buying Season as Eswatini Faces Persistent Supply Gap

The National Maize Corporation (NMC) has opened its buying depot network for the 2025/26 white maize season, signalling the start…

E43 360 GROSS PROFIT OPENS NEW FRONT IN ESWATINI’S CARROT IMPORT WAR

BY: PHESHEYA KUNENE | EDITOR MANZINI – Eswatini’s food-security fight may soon be won underground, one orange root at a…

AT 72, JOHN DLAMINI FARMS HIS WAY INTO EYA 2026 SPOTLIGHT

BY: PHESHEYA KUNENE | EDITOR BIG BEND – Most people slow down in their seventies. John Dlamini is speeding up.…

HOW GULE FARM BECAME UNESWA’S LIVING LAB FOR SWEET POTATO RESEARCH

…Partnership between a family-owned farm, UNESWA and the Ministry of Agriculture is showing how research, improved varieties and commercial farming…

E12.2 MILLION TRADITIONAL AFRICAN VEGETABLES MARKET OPENS AS TAVI TARGETS 94 FARMERS 

Participants posing for a group photo. NHLANGANO – Eswatini is currently producing only 18 percent of the vegetables it needs,…

68% of EADF Tractor Loan Applicants Rejected as Business Plan Gaps Undermine E250M Mechanisation Push.

Zweli Vilakati, Head of Technical Services at EADF BY: NOSIPHO MKHIZE | JOURNALIST MBABANE – Seventeen of 25 farmers who…