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[ad_1] One of Covid-19’s biggest casualties in the agrifoodtech dealmaking arena so far is Livestock Improvement Corporation’s (LIC) scuppered $70 million investment in Afimilk. The New Zealand dairy farmers’ cooperative had done everything but sign on the dotted line for a 50% stake in the Israeli milk meter maker. LIC’s senior management had made the […]
[ad_1] Anyone out there planning a gripping documentary on food fraud would do well to shadow the detective work of Interpol and Europol’s “Operation Opson,” a series of European supply chain investigations first prompted by the notorious Horsemeat Scandal of 2013. During the eighth phase of Opson, by early 2019, investigators ended up seizing “more […]
[ad_1] Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty due to COVID-19, but the agri-food sector is likely to show more resilience to the pandemic than other sectors, a report released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations says. The food outlook report published on Thursday on the FAO webpage provides […]
[ad_1] A soil scientist, Rattan Lal, was on Thursday named the 2020 recipient of the World Food Prize. The organisers said his research led to improved food production and a better understanding of how atmospheric carbon can be sequestered in the soil to help combat climate change. This was disclosed in a statement sent to […]
[ad_1] For a specialty crop grower, selecting the next season’s seeds is a big deal. Most market gardeners and other enterprise-level operators receive a massive stack of seed catalogs each year. They pour over them meticulously, dogearing page after page bearing promising seed varieties. To give a sense of these tomes, one catalog offers over […]
[ad_1] Gaby Novakovic is the lead organizer of the OnRamp Agriculture Conference that’s set to take place virtually on July 9. We caught up with her to find out they pivoted what was going to be a physical event into a virtual one that’s focused on helping startups start valuable conversations with potential investors and […]
[ad_1] A welcome impact from the Covid-19 pandemic has been clearer skies and returning wildlife to usually polluted areas after industry, transport systems, and more shut down across the world, reducing carbon emissions. Today marks two months since the UK’s electricity industry last used coal; the longest period since the Industrial Revolution began more than […]
[ad_1] The Edo State Chapter of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), has endorsed Governor Godwin Obaseki’s re-election bid, citing the governor’s laudable agriprenuer programme and other farmer-friendly policies, which have transformed the state’s agricultural sector. Chairman, Edo State Chapter of AFAN, Chief Emmanuel Ighodefeyi Odigie, who addressed journalists in Benin, said the executives of […]
[ad_1] The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has urged cowpea farmers in Nigeria to take advantage of the recent push to ban food importation to cultivate SAMPEA-20T, the new variety of cowpea also known as Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) Cowpea. President Mohammadu Buhari at a recent media parley with journalists advised Nigerian farmers to increase […]
[ad_1] Tongcheng Life, an online portal that facilitates group-buying of fresh produce, has raised $200 million in Series C funding. Half of the capital came from Joyy, a NASDAQ-listed, Guangzhou-based tech company that runs several social media and gaming platforms including short video site YY.com, popular livestreaming app Huya, and Southeast Asia’s Bigo. Co-leading the […]
[ad_1] The African Development Bank (AfDB), has enlisted Ogun State as a special agricultural processing zone to revive all aspects of the agricultural value chain, especially in aquaculture. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Adeola Odedina, disclosed this on Wednesday when he led the management team of the Ministry of Agriculture to Ijebu Development Initiative […]
[ad_1] An outbreak of cattle disease called Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) has occurred in Kano State, killing many cows. The chairman of Dairy and Livestock Husbandry Cooperative Union in the state, Usman Abdullahi, stated this in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday. CBPP is a disease of cattle and water buffalo caused by Mycoplasma […]
[ad_1] Palm oil processing plant • Farmers commend border closure, CBN interventions Agriculture, health, education and security sectors, among others, have suffered degrees of neglect while the country concentrates on the economy of crude petroleum. The oil and gas sector is terribly affected by corruption, incompetence and inability to emplace enabling legislative framework for the […]
[ad_1] The Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria has painted a devastating picture of how COVID-19 and uninspiring government policy were destroying wheat production in Nigeria. Alhaji Salim Mohammed, the national president of the Wheat Farmers Association in an extensive webinar conversation with Agriculture Journalists recently expressed anger and dismay towards government’s attitude to wheat […]
[ad_1] Goat farming is an untapped gold mine, which many households can feed on. It offers a number of opportunities to make money, from selling live animal or meat. The farmer can make money from their milk production, manure, hides and skin etc. For small farmers and homesteaders, rearing goats can be the best choice […]