MONDAY Novus Agro Nigeria Commodity Index Prices from July 12, –July 19, 2018 MARKET COMMODITY WHOLESALE RETAIL LAST WEEK’S PRICE VARIANCE Bag (Kg) Price (N) LM Price (N) P/kg (N) W(N) R(N) W (N) R (N) Bodija Market, Oyo State. Beans (White) 100Kg […]
“Ogun Empowers Rural Women With 30,000 Chicken” Ogun State government has empowered 3,000 rural women with 30,000 Boiler chicken across the three Senatorial Districts in the Second Phase of its Noiler Empowerment Programme. Speaking at the programme in Ijebu-Ode, Ilaro and Abeokuta, the Deputy Governor, Chief Mrs. Yetunde Onanuga said the initiative was to improve […]
“Stakeholders Task FG On Investment In Meat Value Chain” Stakeholders in the meat industry have appealed to the Federal Government to improve the state of the country’s butcheries, by investing in storage processing hubs, to meet the huge meat demand locally. They said this at a workshop in Lagos. While commending the Lagos State government […]
Footprint to Africa Limited and Sinachi Farms Limited are Investment Bridge and food oriented companies promoting intra-African and foreign investments in Africa. Chairman of the Organisations, Osita Oparaugo, in this interview discussed need for Africa, especially Nigeria to move away from exporting raw materials to export of processed goods. KINGSLEY JEREMIAH reports. Africa imports a […]
Get Optimum Yield Cassava Cultivation: cassava, described as the ‘golden crop of Africa,’ plays a significant role in the move towards food security and hunger eradication. However, productivity per hectare remains low due to poor awareness about modern farming practices. FEMI IBIROGBA presents step-by-step cassava planting techniques to enhance maximum productivity. The emerging value chain […]
Agric investors groan as fall armyworms invade farmlands: Farmers across the country have called on the government, scientists and other stakeholders to urgently intervene and find a lasting solution to the armyworm invasion ravaging the farms. As farmers flee their farmlands due to increasing insecurity across the country, another set of invaders are on the […]
“Farmers toll free lines: Farmers to assess toll free lines in August” A toll free call centre for farmers will be made available to the public in August, the managing director of a Kaduna-based tractor plant, Springfield Agro, Mr Tarun Kumar Das, announced during a briefing in Lagos. He said the toll free call, which […]
… SON, experts warn of danger adulterated agrochemicals The growing market for agrochemicals in Nigeria has attracted counterfeiters whose fraudulent activities are flooding the country with huge quantities of fake products. Over 70% of Nigeria’s 190 million people are said to be farmers. Agrochemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides as well as fertiliser are commonly […]
One of the dangerous effects of counterfeit, fake and adulterated agrochemicals is that it leads to dramatic decline in the profit farmers make from their investments. Many farmers spend a lot of money buying these agrochemicals yet productivity or harvest remains far below expectation. It is so common to hear farmers complaining about how most of […]
SON Canvas Use Of Quality Pesticides Farms: The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has carried out a sensitisation exercise for Nigerian farmers on the dangers of using adulterated pesticides on their farms. Osita Aboloma, director general, SON, said at a one-day sensitisation workshop organised for farmers and agro-chemical dealers in Kano that good pesticides enhance […]
Glut In Egg Production Triggers Call For Industrialisation, Value Chain Creation • As PAN, scientists proffer solutions Femi Ibirogba aggregates views of farmers, scientists and entrepreneurs in the poultry industry on the way out of low demand for eggs, industrialisation of the product and other issues around value chain development. Farmers and input producers in […]
FAO, WFP Launch Agricultural Livelihoods Programme In Northeast: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in collaboration with World Food Programme (WFP) have flagged off livelihoods support programme to people affected by insurgency with seeds and fertilizer in the Northeast. The UN food agencies’ support was to reduce dependence of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) […]
Animal technologists and scientists have harped on integrated farming, robust collaboration between the gown and town, cooperative activities and application of modern techniques and technologies in fish and livestock farming for sustainability. They said these during the Nigerian Association of Animal Health and Husbandry Technologists’ (NAAHHT’s) annual lecture at the Federal College of Animal Health […]
States Called To Buy Into FG Agricultural Policies: The Dean, Committee of Chairmen, River Basins Development Authorities in Nigeria, Eseme Eyibo, has called on states yet to key into the Federal government efforts at revamping the agricultural sector to do so as such is aimed at boosting value chain development in the sector.Eseme, who is […]
Farming Resumes In Troubled Katsina Communities As Security Improves: Normalcy is gradually returning to troubled Katsina villages neighbouring Kaduna and Zamfara states. This follows the security measures taken against the armed bandits terrorizing the area some months back. Our reporter, who went round some of the villages, observed that farming activities have sprang up and […]