Some 153 million people, representing about 26 per cent of the population above 15 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa, suffered from severe food insecurity in 2014-15, according to a new FAO report. The second edition of the Regional Overview of Food Insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa (2016) underscores how severe food insecurity and poverty pose […]
A buzzword is a word or expression that is fashionable to use at a certain time or place after which its usage diminishes. Buzzwords can be used to simplify concepts and ease understanding. But many people use buzzwords without knowing their meaning. For instance, many public officials use buzzwords not to convey factual meaning but […]
Commodity Price Between February 24, — March 3, 2017 Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Aba Main Market, Abia Statte. Garri (White) 100Kg 20,000 Paint Bucket 650 224 20,000 650 0 0 Groundnut (Edible) 100Kg 46,000 Paint Bucket 1,500 […]
Honey is one of the oldest sweeteners on earth. Lucky for us, it also has many health benefits and uses. Honey is so good, we have included it in our list of powerfoods that should be in your kitchen right now. Read on for 10 health benefits and uses for this golden sweetener. Health Benefits […]
AGRIinsight will start work later this month in Tanzania. The assignment focuses on the support of an agribusiness investment agency based in Dar es Salaam. AGRIinsight will provide an online “client space” where relevant information is organized, deposited in various forms and imagery, to which access is facilitated to advance the agency’s objectives. AGRIinsight will […]
A Saudi Investment Company, Zain Al-abdin group, is to set up an Agric City in Kwara State. The proposed Agric City, which is to be located along the River Niger in Kwara North, will comprise a cluster of farms. A statement released Tuesday by Muideen Akorede, Senior Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor on […]
The Federal Government has earmarked N263 million to boost the production and export of Gum Arabic as the country earned more than $43 million from the export of the commodity in 2016. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, confirmed this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting […]
State Governments have been urged to support the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to boost agriculture by creating enabling environment as means of conserving Foreign Exchange. Speaking on Tuesday in Sokoto at the CBN 23rd Seminar for Finance Correspondents and Business Editors, with the theme: Monetary Policy in a Period of Economic Uncertainty, a financial […]
Stakeholders at the two-day workshop on the Skills Initiative for Africa programme have advised NEPAD to focus on addressing skill gap by implementing agriculture projects in the country. The stakeholders gave the recommendation in a communiqué read by Dr Iyk Oji, Special Adviser to the National Coordinator of NEPAD Nigeria, Mrs Gloria Akobundu, at the […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, yesterday, maintained that wheat importation into the country will end soon as the federal government has put in place measures to boost productivity of local wheat farmers. Ogbeh disclosed this at the ongoing ‘International Conference on Wheat’, organised by the Support to Agricultural Research for […]
The federal government has said Nigerian economy performed better than expected in 2016 though the nation is still in the early stages of recovery. The Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters, Adeyemi Dipeolu, stated this while reacting to the GDP figures released on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics. He said though […]
Agricultural exports from Russia to several nations in North Africa, the Middle East and Gulf states could see an increase of products totaling more than $1 billion this year, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sergei Levin announced Wednesday during a briefing at commodity expo Eurasian Export in Dubai. Russia has placed fifth among other countries […]
♦ Presidency says country is on the mend, recession may have bottomed out ♦ NNPC puts oil production at 2.1mbpd The Nigerian economy contracted by 1.5 per cent in 2016, the first full-year contraction since 1991, and slightly beat the forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which initially predicted a contraction in the country’s […]
African Heads of State at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in June 2014 adopted the “Malabo Declaration’’ to accelerate agricultural growth and transformation to lift Africa out of poverty. The 2014 declaration was a formal commitment by AU Heads of States and Governments to provide effective leadership […]
• Nigerians and NAFDAC are still pondering the paradox It’s a wonder that gari, a Nigerian staple, is reportedly being imported into Nigeria when the country is the world’s largest producer of cassava, the crop from which gari is produced. According to reports, a Nigerian lady discovered that a shop in Ikoyi, Lagos, was selling […]