Teita Sisal Estate Managing Director Phillip Kyriaz shows then-Lands CAS Gideon Mung'aro the vast farm located in Taita-Taveta County.[Renson Mnyamwezi, Standard] One of the largest sisal estates in ...

With the ban on plastic bags, Kenyans should rethink sisal because its farming has a long term advantage. Sisal, whose botanical name is Agave Sisalana, was first introduced to Kenya in 1914 when the ...

In the farm in Tanzania, men are responsible for cutting sisal plants and transporting them to various farm sites. Zhao Yanrong / China Daily Chinese-Tanzanian farm gets ready for peak production as ...

More than 800 families evicted from land belonging to the Lomolo Sisal Company now fear being exposed to diseases as they camp in the open at Athinai market in Mogotio, Nakuru County. The families ...

Pietersburg, South Africa — Northern Province's agriculture department loses more than R40-million a year to pay workers at unproductive state sisal farms across the province. Most of the farms have ...

Chinese experts from the center have already managed to raise the average yields of hybrid rice to between nine and 12 tons per hectare, a fourfold increase of local rice yields. The hybrid rice seeds ...

DAR ES SALAAM, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The government of Tanzania's recent resolve to revive cultivation of sisal has perked smallholder farmers up in the east African nation of about 55 million people.

Photo taken on Nov. 15, 2017 shows a sisal field in a farm in Tanzania's Morogoro region. The farm was established by China-Africa Agriculture Investment Co. Ltd in 2000. Currently, the farm has ...

A nondescript, cactus-like plant, sisal is a $75 million crop that is grown on three continents and harvested for its leaves, which produce fibers that can be used to make plastics, textiles and paper ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The government of Tanzania has annulled possession of 15,738 hectares of sisal plantations from a private investor after the investor had failed to observe ...

A nondescript, cactus-like plant, sisal is a $75 million crop that is grown on three continents and harvested for its leaves, which produce fibers that can be used to make plastics, textiles and paper ...