Finance

A new US$72mn project in Egypt will help small farmers maximise their efficiency in using scarce water resources and achieve significant increases in their crop production and incomes.

First National Bank (FNB) and PayPal customers in South Africa can now sell to PayPal’s global customer base of more than 81 million active accounts in 190 markets around the world and move the proceeds to their FNB accounts.

When plants become desiccated, tiny leaf pores collectively called stomata close to conserve water. Each stoma is flanked by a pair of ‘guard cells’, which change shape to open or close the central pore.

The European Union decided recently to allocate 15mn euros to African countries to set up joint funds to finance scientific research in the continent.