The Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, has inaugurated regional co-ordinators for soil development to foster food sufficiency in the country. Inaugurating the committee, the institute’s Executive Director, Prof. James Adediran, said members comprised professors and specialists on soil. According to him, the committee is expected to raise a team of soil […]
International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is set to enhance farmers’ income in the North through the adoption of better cultivation practices and promotion of groundnut export. ICRISAT, an international organisation, is committed to improving food security, making smallholder farming profitable, tackling malnutrition by focusing on more nutritious crops, and helping overcome environmental […]
Federal Government has been urged to bring back the era, when Nigeria was a top player in terms of quality and quantity in the global Cocoa production. The Cocoa Exporters Association of Nigeria(CEAN), which made the call, also recalled that in the 1960s and 1970s, the country banked on the commodity as the largest foreign […]
National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) President, Mr. Babatola Faseru has been honoured by the African Cashew Alliance (ACA). This was at the 10th ACA World Cashew Festival & Expo Guinea-Bissau with the theme: It had as theme“A Decade of transformation”. The award was in appreciation of Faseru’s outstanding contribution to the development of the […]
China’s plan to get rid of its massive corn stockpile by using it as raw material for its fledgling biogradeable plastics industry could be a game changer for Changchun Shengda Biomaterial and other private factories in China’s corn belt. After buying corn for years to support farmers, Beijing must find a way to work off […]
Market Commodity price 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 State. Garri (White) 100Kg 21,000 Paint Bucket 680 234 21,000 680 0 0 Groundnut (Edible) 100Kg 48,000 Paint Bucket 1,500 490 48,000 1,500 0 0 Maize […]
Governor Rauf Aregbesola has led a delegation to Germany in search of new insights on modern agriculture in order to further realise the dream of making Osun the food basket of the South West. This, the administration believes will help empower citizens and improve the quality of life for residents in the state. On Saturday, […]
Excitement filled the hearts of 50 youths in Ebonyi State last week as the Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Agricultural Colleges and Institution, Rt. Honourable Linus Okorie, facilitated the training of youths in fish production. Okorie said, that if the state could become a fish producing state coupled with the already existing food production […]
The Federal Polytechnic Bida will start full scale commercial farming to boost the revenue base of the institution. This was made known by the Rector, Dr Abubakar Abdul Dzukogi during an inspection of a poultry farm which was managed by the Agricultural and Bio-Environmental Technology Department recently. Dr Dzukogi said that the management has approved […]
The Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) have agreed to conduct a national public enlightenment programme on the operations of the exchange. The Managing Director/CEO of NCX, Mrs Zaheera Baba-Ari, who visited the NOA headquarters in Abuja, said the core objective of the exchange hinged on the provision of an efficient […]
With the constant call for diversification into agriculture by the federal government, irrigation farming remains a key component for achieving self-sufficiency in food production. Most advanced countries hold unto irrigation farming, which forms an integral part of achieving sustainable food security and consequently, food sovereignty of their people. However, the ability of the government to […]
Hope rises for Nigerian farmers as the first ship of phosphate-a major component for NPK fertiliser, from Morocco will arrive the Lagos Port tomorrow. The intervention, which was initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari and his Moroccan counterpart, King Mohammed VI, during a visit of the latter to Nigeria, is to make available one Million Metric […]
The recent news about the arrival in markets around Lagos state of Lake Rice, a harvest of an agricultural business relationship between Lagos and Kebbi states is indeed heart-warming. The “Lake” bit in the brand name “Lake Rice” is said to be an acronym derived from an amalgamation of the first two letters in the […]
A rice farmer at Ezinator- Ohofia, Oduma in Aninri Local Government Area of Enugu State, Mr Simon Chukwu, has relived his ugly experiences in the hands of Fulani herdsmen during the last Christmas season, explaining that he escaped death through the skin of the teeth. Chukwu said he was harvesting rice in his farm when […]
The Federal Government says it will slash the price of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium (NPK) fertiliser to N5,000 per bag to encourage farmers to boost agricultural production in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a bag of NPK is currently being sold between N7, 500 and N9, 000 in the open […]