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[ad_1] LAGOS – Richard-Mark Mbaram, Technical Adviser, Knowledge Management and Communication to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on, has said that the importance of agriculture had come to play in the present situation in the country. He stated this while speaking with Sunday Independent in Lagos during the distribution of food items to […]
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Jeff Caldwell is content marketing manager at Lessing-Flynn, a marketing and advertising agency based in Des Moines, US. Previously, he was editor of Successful Farming and the High Plains Journal. The views expressed in this article are personal. Agriculture business owners around the US can’t find the right qualified labor to get […]
[ad_1] The Nigerian economy has been seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis that has caused hardship around the world. Oil prices have fallen and many nations are facing recession or even depression. For Nigeria that relies heavily on oil revenue, it is a dire situation. As the government searches for alternative sources of […]
[ad_1] The federal government Friday directed the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) to fully resume its export certification duties at all ports immediately, so as to cushion the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nigeria’s agricultural sector. This was disclosed in a statement signed by Gozie Nwodo, head of communications and strategies, NAQS. He […]
[ad_1] Editor’s note: Tanmay Bhargava is head of Asia Pacific at Intello Labs. Based in Gurugram, India, Intello Labs uses machine learning tech to grade the quality of agricultural produce. Intello Labs is a member of the first cohort of GROW, AgFunder’s Asia agrifoodtech accelerator. AgFunder is the parent company of AFN. Read more about […]
[ad_1] World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row in April due to significant fall in the demands for many commodities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation Food Price Index (FFPI) of the United Nations. The index measures, monitors and tracks […]
[ad_1] In his first address on coronavirus, President Muhammadu Buhari, on March 29, ordered a total lockdown of Lagos, FCT and Ogun, and exempted food processing, distribution and retail companies. This was to allow the continuous flow of the food chain, to avert a food crisis as predicted by the Food and Agricultural Organisation. However, […]
The federal government has directed the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) to fully resume its export certification duties at all ports with immediate effect. The Director General of the agency, Dr. Vincent Isegbe, said: “Export of agricultural produce will soon pick up and gather pace as a result. ”The Office of the Secretary to the […]
[ad_1] Last Updated on 12:38 pm LAGOS – In the face of dwindling oil revenues and the global economic meltdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, the point on revamping agriculture cannot be overemphasised. It is based on this that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) came with stimulus packages such as the extension of loan […]
[ad_1] Last Updated on 12:47 pm COVID-19 is a health crisis. But it could also lead to a food security crisis if proper measures are not taken. The world is already facing food and nutrition security challenges; this is as a result of many countries following the advice from the World Health Organisation (WHO) regarding […]
[ad_1] There is huge scope for improvement in the farming of aquatic crops. Historically, these were overlooked in favor of soil-based staples. So most startups diving into the aquatic crop world need to wrestle with a legacy of incomplete plant science and a dearth of harvest data compared to the arable crops we know well […]
[ad_1] President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Alwan Hassan as the new acting managing director for the Bank of Agriculture . This was contained in a statement signed by ministry’s spokesperson, Theodore Ogaziechi, on Thursday. Mr Hassan is a seasoned banker with over two decades of experience in the banking industry. In the statement, Mr Buhari […]
[ad_1] Hatch is inviting startups to apply for the fourth cohort of its aquaculture-focused accelerator program. It’s looking for eight to 10 companies from anywhere in the world, at seed or pre-seed stage, to join the 15-week program. Applicants should have a team of at least two people who can communicate in the English language, […]
[ad_1] Nigerian poultry farmers have complained of recording huge losses due to the restriction of movement by the federal and state governments to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The farmers, who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES within the week, said the lockdown and the decline in the purchasing power of most Nigerians have […]
[ad_1] There should be zero % on agric loans, says FUNAAB don Millions of Nigerians are faced with challenges of food, income and sustainable means of livelihood as COVID-19 ravages the world economies, but professionals have said the intervention dynamics of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are capable of bridging the gap if handled […]