The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), has provided an effective model for coordination and technical support for high-impact emerging disease control, jointly with the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries (MIRAH) It would take several years for countries to eradicate the H5N1 […]
[ad_1] Dapo Abiodun. Photo/facebook.com/ogsgofficial State partners with firms to develop staple crop zone The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has once again won the Governor of The Year Award in Agriculture. The governor, who emerged tops in the 2020 edition of the award organised by the Nigeria Agricultural Award (NAA), was, on Tuesday night, declared […]
[ad_1] Irrigation Stakeholders have commended the Federal Government’s decision to hands-off operation and maintenance of irrigation schemes in the country. Subsequently, the Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria (TRIMING) Project will be implemented in strict compliance with the direction of the Accountant-General of the Federation in the operations of the Single Treasury Account (TSA) system now […]
[ad_1] • ‘Loans should be disbursed through farmers’ associations’ Stakeholders in the agricultural financial sector and agribusiness have harped on the imperative of repaying various financial facilities put in place by the Federal Government, its agencies such as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, various state governments, and other revolving loans. Before […]
[ad_1] Cowpea The Federal Government has picked a total of 820 Nigerian farmers selected from 36 states of the country to participate in a nationwide demonstration of the recently released SAMPEA 20-T variety of cowpea by planting it on their plots to create awareness. The National Agricultural Extension Research and Liaison Services, the Institute of […]
[ad_1] Some IDPs at a camp in Borno State The Victims Support Fund (VSF) has distributed agricultural inputs to 1,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) farmers to restore livelihoods in Borno. The targeted IDPs were smallholder farmers that were affected in the 12-year Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast. While distributing the farm inputs at the […]
[ad_1] An expert in soil science and land management said organic agriculture has benefits to supply better nutrition, antioxidant contents, improved heart condition, better taste, and building a strong immune system of the citizens. Dr. Jude C. Obi of the University of Uyo stated this at a virtual presentation on organic agriculture, explaining: “This is […]
[ad_1] Over 300 youths from Oyo State have graduated from the Youth Entrepreneurship Programme, held at the International Skill Acquisition Training centre, CSS Global Integrated Farm, Gora, Nasarawa State. The beneficiaries, who were part of the first batch of the 3,300 youths from the state were taken through a two-week intensive training across the fields of […]
About 500,000 farmers and vulnerable people in Nigeria’s North-East zone can now access farming friendly and demand-driven financial services. It is the result of First City Monument Bank’s (FCMB) partnership with Mercy Corps, a frontline international aid organisation. A bold and landmark intervention, the partnership supported by USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Rural Resilience Activity, […]
Many food and pharmaceutical products have a distinctive texture that melts-in-your-mouth, for example, some processed cheeses, grainy like peeling cream or tough, sticky, crunchy and soft VEGA has developed the new front-flush level switch VEGAPOINT 24, suitable for use in sticky, viscous or abrasive products. (Image source: VEGA) The demands on the level measurement technology, […]
Pieter Oosthuysen, senior manager, accounts and technical (Africa), Cobb Europe writes about the use of data in breeder management Objectivity and experience are important when interpreting suboptimal performance data using regression graphs. (Image source: Cobb) Modern technology is increasingly being used on breeder farms for data generation. This data can be analysed to make smarter […]
[ad_1] The figure is lower than the contribution in the second quarter of 2020 which stood at 24.65 per cent. Nigeria’s agricultural sector contributed 23.78 per cent to the country’s overall Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of 2021, the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The figure is lower than the […]
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) has provided technical equipment to improve the honey analysis capacity of the National Beekeeping Institute of Kenya TİKA has provided a nitrogen generator to the National Beekeeping Institute of Kenya for the analysis of antibiotic residues in honey. (Image source: TIKA) The equipment delivery ceremony held at the […]
[ad_1] Mechanisation is a multi-dimensional concept and widely used in agriculture. There is, however, a major difference between the application of mechanisation in developed and developing countries The developing countries tend to design their own strategies in food security given the challenges they face in all aspects of their economy including feeding a growing population, […]
[ad_1] LAGOS – There is no doubt that the Graduate Agripreneurs Project initiated by the British-American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) to drive youth engagement in agriculture, make agribusiness attractive and also reduce employment, has come to stay. The programme had its first set of beneficiaries, both graduates of the University of Ibadan (UI), share their […]