Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar is the Chairman of Umza International Farms in Kano, the farm which at moment concentrates mainly on milling hundreds of bags of paddy rice per day. In this interview, he explains how rice smuggling into the country will kill the nation’s rice industry if not urgently curtailed. On our way to your […]
The battle to get Genetically Modified (GMO) crops to Nigeria now assumes new dimension with some civil society groups going to court in a bid to frustrate the adoption of GM crops in Nigeria. Seventeen non-governmental organizations have dragged the Federal Government before an Abuja Federal High Court, over permits issued by the National Biosafety […]
The Abia State Government has formally sworn in a project management team of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Accelerated Agricultural scheme, as part of efforts to boost food production and provide 10,000 jobs for Abia youths. The team has the commissioner of Agriculture as the chairman, with the Programme Director of the Agriculture Development […]
The House of Representatives is targeting 5,000 direct and indirect jobs with the establishment of farm settlements across the country. The lawmakers are also seeking to raise funding from 10-20 percent for Agriculture from the Ecological Fund. Its Committee on Agricultural Services has also begun additional legislative work on a bill “for an Act to […]
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the National Programme for Food Security (NPFS) and other donor agencies foresees food crises in 2018 in seventeen states. The FG said the report is aimed at helping the government take necessary steps to combating the foreseen food crisis and emergency situation in the […]
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) have appealed to the government at all levels to increase humanitarian interventions in the North East by supporting agricultural production. They made call in Abuja on Friday via recommendations at a stakeholders meeting to examine the results of the Cadre Harmonise analysis of food […]
In a bid to boost agricultural production,Ghana and Hungary have signed a Partnership. The Ambassador of Hungary to Ghana, András Szabó, addressing participants at the first Ghanaian-Hungarian Agriculture Forum in Accra, said the future of the sector depend on innovations,technologies and research. Szabó said his team will explore the Agriculture sector for collaboration with Ghana’s […]
Eighteen bio-fortified varieties comprising six vitamin A cassava, eight vitamin A maize, two orange sweet potato and two iron and zinc sorghum, which are bred conventionally, have been released officially in Nigeria. Paul Ilona, the Country Manager of Harvestplus, an international agricultural organisation, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria […]
Agricultural practices have evolved a great deal throughout the ages. Modern agriculture worldwide has seen an impressive increase in production and yield. As a result, we have more affordable food, fiber, feed, and in recent times biofuel crops like cassava and agricultural products for exportation (at least in some parts of the world). However, the […]
by Onyimba Chiamaka Agriculture has become the saving grace of Nigeria’s economic misfortune, but to achieve great value in this sector, we must fully develop the agriculture value chain. Farming alone cannot do the magic; we must diversify into agro industries like processing plants, transportation, packaging and logistics to create more economic value and more […]
A veterinary doctor, Dr Mutiu Oladele-Bukola, has advised the Federal and State Governments to provide loans and land to livestock farmers to boost food production. Oladele-Bukola of the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, made the call on Wednesday during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan. According to […]
The FADAMA III Second Additional Financing (AFII) programme is training 27 officers on the use of flexible accounting 200+ software for effective recordkeeping and information management in the project. The Training Manager, Mr Robert Udeh, told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday that the training would aid efforts to compute all transactions of the project effectively. […]
OCP Africa has commenced training of 10,000 smallholding farmers in 12 pilot local government areas of Kaduna State in soil analysis opportunities and soil specific fertilizer recommendation for improved productivity. It is a farmers-centred business development model aimed at supporting farmers to have knowledge of their soil types, nutrients availability, deficiencies and requirements that will […]
The House of Representatives on Wednesday queried the National Biosafety Management Agency over alleged importation of 70,000 tons of Genetically Modified maize by Olam foods. The House also directed the agency to submit the list of companies importing GMOs into the country as well as confirm the allegation. The directive was given at the public […]
Cattle dealers in Benue say their business is on the verge of collapse because of the anti-open grazing law, which comes into effect on Wednesday. Some officials of the Cattle Dealers Association of Nigeria made the claim, while speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi on Wednesday. They said that the law failed […]