[ad_1] Dr. Ebegba The Federal Government has reiterated its readiness to develop a guidance document that will help in the regulation of stacked Gene organisms in the country. In a statement from the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), the Director-General/CEO of the agency, Dr. Rufus Ebegba, who disclosed this during a meeting on the development […]
[ad_1] Elizabeth Onyeri wants the government to intervene and help farmers with finance and security. Elizabeth Onyeri is a small-scale farmer in Abuja. She started farming in the 1990s in Gombe State where she also worked as a civil servant, before she was transferred to the federal capital. She says her yield was better in […]
According to the latest report from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), consumer price index (CPI) inflation rose by 6.6% y-o-y in August, basically unchanged from the revised figure for July (6.4% y-o-y previously) The analysis has further revealed that the demand is estimated to return to pre pandemic (2019) levels by 2025. (Image […]
The World Bank has granted US$103.4mn for Ghana to reverse land degradation and strengthen integrated natural resource management, across three million hectares of degraded landscapes The Ghana Landscape Restoration and Small-Scale Mining project will focus on land-use planning for integrated landscape management, and promote sustainable mining. (Image source: Adobe Stock) The cost of environmental degradation […]
Paul Mitei, a farmer from Kiptoben Village, Nakuru County, Kenya started growing avocados because other farmers in his community were also growing them NASFPA members have harvested 25,000 kgs of avocado for export so far, earning about US$22,500. (Image source: Adobe Stock) But due to poor crop management skills, the fruit yields were low with […]
[ad_1] The agricultural industry has huge lucrative business and career opportunities within the value chain, if you have an interest in agriculture or open to learn about business ideas in agriculture. You don’t need to own a farm of any kind be it animal husbandry or crop production before making money from Agricultural business. In […]
[ad_1] LAGOS – Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have stressed the need for players in the sector to always keep to their promises to repay whatever loans they got, especially such that was released by the by the Federal Government, through its agencies such as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, among […]
[ad_1] The FAO Food Price Index averaged 127.4 points in August, up 3.1 per cent from July and 32.9 per cent from the same period last year. Global food commodity prices rebounded quickly in August after a second consecutive month of decline led by sugar, wheat, and vegetable oil, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of […]
[ad_1] The participants provided progress updates on the scheme, following their consultations with key stakeholders within the public and private sectors. Nigeria’s federal and state governments have expressed overwhelming support for an initiative to create Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) – public-private partnerships aimed at developing priority value chains through developing infrastructure in rural areas, […]
[ad_1] Mr Nanono was removed alongside his power ministry counterpart Wednesday in what President Buhari said was meant to fix “weak areas”. On August 21, 2019, Sabo Nanono, the now former minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, assumed duty at the ministry of agriculture after a shoddy ratification procedure at the Senate ministerial screening session. […]
In cooperation with TİKA and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of the Republic of Guinea, 75 tonnes of corn was harvested on a total of 15 hectares of land in Coyah, Dubreka and Kindia Under the project, which benefited 120 families in total, TİKA provided simple agricultural tools, seeds, fertilisers and pesticides to the […]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed the eLocust3m application to improve early warning through rapid detection, surveillance and monitoring of locust outbreaks Locusts are among the most destructive pests in the world. (Image source: Adobe Stock) About 30 agricultural extension officers in Namibia, specifically, from the Ministry of Agriculture, […]
[ad_1] A socio-cultural group, Ebedi Frontliners, Iseyin (EFI) in Iseyin Local Government Area has called on a former Senator, Chief Gbenga Babalola, to hand over a fish farm constructed by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to the newly created Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH’s) College of Agricultural Science and Renewable Resources, located at Iseyin. […]
[ad_1] ABUJA – All farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has congratulated the newly appointed Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, the former Minister of Environment. A statement on Wednesday by Arc Kabir Ibrahim, National President of AFAN, wished him success in his new job. He said the Buhari administration is committed […]
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received US$1.2mn from the Republic of Korea to provide humanitarian activities for food crisis in the following countries: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Madagascar, South Sudan and Burkina Faso This contribution will boost WFP’s humanitarian efforts including food assistance for vulnerable communities in five countries. (Image source: Adobe stock) Chris Nikoi, […]