A Brazilian company plans to invest in the mining and agriculture sectors in Malawi. Costa Negócios, a Brazilian company working in commercial exporting, agribusiness and industrial building disclosed this through its Chief Executive Officer responsible for Africa, Danilo Danelucci, on the sidelines of an audience the company had with President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika at […]
The Republican-led Senate Finance Committee on Thursday set an Oct. 5 confirmation hearing for Gregory Doud, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the top agricultural negotiator job at the U.S. Trade Representative. If approved by the panel and confirmed by the full Senate, Doud would become Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the agency – a position that […]
The government and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have signed two agreements aimed at supporting farmers on issues related to climate change and improve competitiveness in rice farming, particularly in Iringa Region. The agreements were signed in Dar es Salaam yesterday between the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock […]
The Chairman, Contec Global Agro Limited (CGAL), a subsidiary of Contec Global, Dr. Benoy Berry and the Chairman Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Nigeria Biotechnology Society (BSN) who is also the Vice Chancellor of Taraba State University, Jalingo, Prof. Vincent Tenebe, have called on both the federal and state governments to use bio solutions […]
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, arrived in Niamey on Tuesday, September 26, 2017 for a two-day official visit to Niger, which began with a meeting with the Head of State, Mahamadou Issoufou. During the meeting, the two leaders highlighted the convergence of the priorities of the host country and the […]
The Middle Belt Small Scale Farmers Network, MIBSSFANET, have cautioned that the country would likely witness food shortages as a result of the recent flood disaster that ravaged substantial parts of Benue state which produces large quantity of the major food crops consumed in the country. Coordinator of the MIBSSFANET, Mrs. Janet Adejo sounded the […]
The Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) has begun intensive training for registered cotton farmers in the South-West, North-East and North-West zones of the country. The training, according to the council, was for farmers to adopt global best practices which can make the production system and products globally competitive. The Director-General of RMRDC, Dr. […]
That Nigeria has failed to be self sufficient in food production is perhaps an agreeable consensus for most Nigerians who hear the statement. What has however failed to achieve consensus is the amount of food Nigeria actually imports. At times, a range is given, while at other times, figures slightly differ as data sources attempt […]
The acting vice chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, (FUNAAB), Professor Ololade Enikuomehin, has disclosed that agriculture has become a mainstay of the nation’s economy and that the future of Nigeria depends largely on agriculture. Professor Enikuomehin made the remarks at the just-concluded 5th National Conference/Exhibition and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Nigerian Women […]
The Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba has called for synergy with the FCT police command on the enforcement and regulation of genetically modified products in the country. The DG/CEO who said this when he paid a courtesy visit to the FCT Police Commissioner, Sadiq Abubakar Bello, in his office in […]
The management of PaxHerbals Clinic and Research Laboratories in collaboration with its subsidiary Ofure (Pax) Integral Research and Development Initiative (OFIRDI) is organising an international conference on indigenous traditional knowledge. According to the convener, Rev Father Anselm Adodo it will hold between October 5 and 6 at Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO), Lagos. […]
China soybean oil futures fell over 2 percent on Thursday, reaching their lowest level in three months, following a drop in global prices and amid ongoing pressure from large stocks. * The most active soybean oil contract on the Dalian Commodity Exchange fell as much as 2.4 percent to 6,026 yuan ($906.30)per tonne, its lowest […]
Syngenta AG said on Tuesday it agreed to settle U.S. farmer lawsuits stemming from its decision to commercialize a genetically modified (GMO) strain of corn before China approved importing it, and a person familiar with the matter said the payment would be close to $1.5 billion. The settlement does not apply to lawsuits filed by […]
Stakeholders at the ongoing Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) conference and Agrikexpo in Abuja yesterday called for increase access to modern agricultural techniques to boost food production for teeming population. They argued that Nigerian farmers currently feed over 200 million people from neighboring countries of Chad, Mali and Niger, among others, saying unless Nigerian farmers embrace […]
The Federal Government will spend over N17bn in this year’s dry season farming under its anchor borrower scheme. The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing Agriculture Lending (NIRSAL), Aliyu Hameed, disclosed this yesterday in Abuja at the ongoing AgrikExpo and Conference, organised by the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG). Hameed said in the […]