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[ad_1] The Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Colonel Hameed Ali (retd), has approved the release of 46,000 metric tonnes of rice, 36,495 kegs of vegetables oil and other items valued at N3.2 billion for distribution. The Customs’ Public Relations Officer, Mr Joseph Attah, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Attah […]
[ad_1] As part of the measures to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians during coronavirus pandemic, the federal government has approved the release of 70,000 metric tons of grains from the strategic grains reserve to the masses. Boss Mustapha, the chairperson of the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19, said this on Tuesday during a press briefing […]
[ad_1] Humans are not alone in experiencing complications related to pregnancy and birth. Any livestock farmer who has spent some time in the trenches can regale you with a tale or two about moonlight bovine midwifery or the art of repositioning a backward lamb in the unaccommodating birth canal of a labor-weary ewe. “The swine […]
[ad_1] As the nation’s leading state for corn, pork, eggs, and renewable fuels, it is no secret that Iowa is a world leader in agriculture production. However, a fast-growing entrepreneurial ecosystem is proving that the state can also grow the next generation of technology businesses to serve the worlds’ farmers, consumers and agricultural industries. Over […]
[ad_1] Stuck in the same bind as many other Chinese farmers whose crops are rotting in their fields, Jiang Yuewu is preparing to throw out a 500-ton harvest of lotus root because anti-coronavirus controls are preventing traders from getting to his farm near Wuhan, where the global pandemic started. Chinese leaders are eager to revive […]
[ad_1] SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son now believes that 15 of the startups in his company’s Vision Fund portfolio will go bankrupt – though he still thinks the VC mega-fund can make a positive return. As part of its AI and robotics-focused mandate, the Japanese tech company’s Vision Fund has invested in several agrifood businesses worldwide. […]
It is already an over flogged point that number one panacea for the country’s underdevelopment is real diversification from oil (which is currently Nigeria’s economic mainstay) into farming. Agricultural revolution is highly required for the country’s craved industrial revolution. Times without number experts have said this, the academics have laboriously stressed it, and government at […]
[ad_1] IN an effort to boost food production in the state, a Dutch firm, Terra Agricultural Support Company will be supporting maize and Soya beans farmers in Ekiti State with N3.5 billion in the current planting season. This was disclosed in Ado Ekiti by the Managing Director of the company, Mr Reye Haveman, at […]
[ad_1] One hundred constituents from Ibarapa Central/Ibarapa North Federal Constituency, have benefited from Agro-Commodity Guides training organised by the member representing the constituency in the House of Representatives, Dr. Ajibola Muraina. The beneficiaries, who were given extensive training on guides on exporting several agricultural commodities, described the first-of-its kind training in the constituency as unique, […]
[ad_1] UPDATED April 26, 22:50 EST, with comments from investors and DeHaat’s CEO on the funding and Covid-19’s impact. Indian ag marketplace DeHaat has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital India. Netherlands development bank FMO also participated in the round, alongside existing investors Omnivore and AgFunder (disclosure: AgFunder is […]
[ad_1] President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered distribution of 150 truckloads of rice seized by Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) to the 36 states of the federation. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists at a news conference in Abuja on Monday. The News Agency of […]
[ad_1] Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent – known collectively by the acronym BAT – pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the agrifood vertical last year, according to AgFunder’s China AgriFood Startup Investing Report 2019, published with Bits x Bites. Between them, they invested in agrifood startup funding rounds worth just over $640 million during 2019. […]
[ad_1] AKURE— RESIDENTS of Arimogija community in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, yesterday, raised an alarm of how a helicopter supplied weapons to herdsmen to unleash terror on them. The helicopter was alleged to have landed in the bush where the weapons were said to have been supplied to the herdsmen. A rice farmer, […]
[ad_1] The dwindling demand for and subsequent fall in the prices of crude oil due to the global upsurge of the coronavirus pandemic drove down international prices for major food commodities, a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation Food Price Index (FFPI) of the United Nations, has said. The index measures, monitors and […]
[ad_1] Agricultural professionals have warned the Federal Government and state to avert food crisis in 2021 by making inputs, enabling environment and credit facilities, among others, available to farmers now. It is time for clearing, stump removal, ploughing, harrowing and ridging of farmland in predominantly rain-fed agriculture (which takes about 98 per cent of agriculture […]