The Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has commissioned an ultra-modern integrated rice farm and mill, named JOSAN, at Ufuma, Orumba north Local Government Area of the state. At the commissioning, the governor revealed that rice production in the state is presently 400,000 metric tons, above the 320,000 metric tons of annual consumption capacity of the […]
Ms Malu Dreyer, Head of Bundestrat, the Upper Chamber of the German Parliament, has pledged Germany’s support to Nigeria in its economic recovery effort. Dreyer, who spoke at the weekend while receiving a delegation of the Nigeria Senate led by its President, Dr Bukola Saraki, in Berlin said that Nigeria deserved the support of Germany […]
Chi Farms Limited is celebrating 10 years of business relationship with Aviagen, owners of the popular ‘Arbor Acres’ broiler brand. The partnership, according to the company’s executive director, Martin Middernacht, has made Chi Farms a leading grandparent integrator and distributor of quality day-old chicks in Nigeria. He said: “We are proud that we manage to […]
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State had inaugurated Fadama III, that would provide additional financial intervention for the year 2016/2017 dry season farming in the state. The event, which held at Kurfi Village of Kware Local Government Area, would cover the 23 local government councils at a cost of N1.56 billion. This is contained in […]
GM technology holds great benefits and promise for Africa, which needs to boost food output and to feed a growing population—expected to climb from 1.2 billion to 2.4 billion by 2050. About half of that increase is expected to occur in Africa. Without a sharp increase in food production, Africa faces a future of increased […]
South Africa’s economy contracted 0.3 percent quarter-on-quarter in the final three months of last year as mining and manufacturing output shrank, the statistics agency said on Tuesday, putting credit ratings at risk. Africa’s most industrialised economy faces the risk of being downgraded to junk status owing to weak economic growth after it got a reprieve […]
The High Commissioner of Malaysia in Nigeria, His Excellency, Lim Juay Jin, has expressed surprise at the level of efforts being mustered and deployed by Contec Agro towards achieving food sufficiency in Nigeria. The High Commissioner who visited the research laboratory facility of Contec Agro in Maitama, Abuja on Thursday, particularly expressed delight at the […]
The Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Education, Professor Manuel Heitor has indicated the interest of Portuguese government to partner with the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) to expand technologies with a view to enhancing tropical agriculture and food security in Nigeria. Professor Heitor made this known, while leading a team of experts in different […]
Conventional agriculture as we know it is associated with working tediously with hoe and machete, getting dirty in the fields with little or nothing to show for the labour exerted. However, advancement in technology now see farmers leveraging on hydroponics technology which requires less energy and time to get better yield with less soil or […]
The Oyo State Government has stated that herdsman caught with guns would be treated as criminals and prosecuted accordingly. This was stated in a communiqué issued at the end of the Oyo State Inter-Religious/Ethnic Committee ,OYSIREC, held in Ibadan at the Executive Chamber of the Governor’s office. The meeting was attended by religious, tribal, ethnic […]
A former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has restated his call for true federalism as a panacea to Nigeria’s problems. While speaking at the Obafemi Awolowo University at a program organised by the Faculty of Law on Thursday, Mr. Abubakar said in a true federal system, the federal government would have little or no need for…” […]
Tomato farmers in Katsina State are smiling to the banks as the price of the commodity jerked up recently. In most farms in the state, a big basket is sold at between N4,000 and N4,5000. At the same period last year, farmers and merchants of tomato in the state were badly affected by glut of […]
The MD/CEO of the Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX), Mrs Zaheera Baba-Ari, has said farmers can now use their farm produce as collateral to secure loans from banks. To do this, Mrs Baba-Ari advised farmers to get in touch with the commodity brokers in their localities, who will help them aggregate their harvest and store them […]
As farmers begin wheat harvest in Kano, investigations have revealed that its price in most of the grains markets in the ancient city has crashed. A visit to Dawanau grains market, one of the largest produce markets in West Africa, revealed that it was flooded with new wheat, a situation that crashed the price of […]
The Katsina State government says it has made huge investment in agriculture to enhance production and pave way for wealth creation and income generation across the state. Ibrahim Musa Kalla, Special Assistant on Press Affairs to the state deputy governor, who doubles as commissioner for Agriculture, said the state government has rehabilitated seven irrigation schemes […]