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[ad_1] Pathogens, as is clear to anyone tracking the outbreak of Covid-19 on humans or African Swine Fever on pigs, can inflict disastrously global impacts on public health, as well as wreaking havoc on vital food supply chains. To date, preventing disease outbreaks among livestock has largely involved a “prophylactic” mix of vaccines, antibiotics or […]
[ad_1] Kenya’s conservancy was thrown into bewilderment when two white giraffes (a female one and her male calf) were killed by poachers. A statement by the Hirola Community Conservancy, on Tuesday, said the bodies of the two giraffes were found by locals ‘in a skeletal state after being killed by armed poachers’ in Garissa in […]
[ad_1] Yam farmers are yet to embrace new methods of growing yam vine in smaller spaces for bigger harvest instead of the manual way of cultivating the tubers or millicent in larger farms. Our correspondent reports that science in recent times has adopted the vine system which enables farmers to plant yam stems, for rapid […]
[ad_1] Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a large herbivore insect that looks like a grasshopper, is short-horned and is approximately the length of a finger (two to three inches). Since the dawn of civilisation, locusts have been feared agricultural pests, with plagues documented in ancient texts, including in the Qur’an, Bible and Torah. Locust outbreaks […]
[ad_1] Selina Wamucii, the platform that helps businesses from anywhere in the world to buy and import food & agricultural produce from any African country has announced that it is opening up its platform to organized farmers groups and cooperatives to sell or export directly to markets worldwide. Selina Wamucii is a platform that helps […]
[ad_1] When you think about putting a film around something in the food space, you most likely think about packaging or perhaps one of the growing number of shelf life enhancement startups that coat produce in a special material to stop them going bad. Last year, for example, Sufresca raised a $500,000 seed round for […]
[ad_1] No fewer than 500 Nigerian youths will be trained on Agricultural Skill Acquisition Program (ASAP), project under the Skills Development for Youth Employment (SKYE), in the second module of the program for the year 2020. Speaking at the end of the first module, the Executive Director of FarmAgric Foundation, Veronica Valentine, said that after […]
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Dr Belinda Clarke is director of UK-based Agri-TechE (formerly known as Agri-Tech East), Europe’s largest independent membership business connecting farmers and growers with researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs and investors using innovation to enhance the economic growth, agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability of the agri-food value chain. Prior to her current role, Belinda was […]
[ad_1] Small farmers in Brazil have a new option when it comes to procuring farm inputs thanks to InstaAgro, an online direct sales platform for agricultural inputs, machinery, and parts. Led by family office Rolesis Holdings, the startup has raised $600k in seed funding, receiving its first tranche of $300,000 in 2019 and the second […]
[ad_1] Chemical fungicides are a tried and tested way to get rid of fungal outbreaks like powdery mildew and botrytis; but many of these are coming under scrutiny from consumers and regulators. So Biotalys is working to produce biological alternatives by mimicking the immune response of certain animals, such as llamas. The post Biotalys increases […]
[ad_1] Venture capital investment across all industries dropped in 2019 — around 16%, according to the VenturePulse report — against a backdrop of global uncertainty related to the US-China trade war, Brexit, and a weakening Chinese economy. It was the same for agri-foodtech but not to the same extent, with total funding coming in just 4.8% lower […]
[ad_1] The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics’s country representative in Nigeria, Hakeem Ajeigbe, has said that Nigerian-farmed sorghum will soon be exported as the demand of the produce has been on increase from local and international consumers. Consumption rate is also expected to increase across the country, he said The ICRISAT representative […]
[ad_1] Now, your organisation has been an advocate of right to food in Nigeria as a way of achieving food security. How do you mean? What we mean is that from time immemorial, countries pursue food security in two major ways and they formulate their policies along the way they are done. One way is […]
[ad_1] Delta State Police Command, yesterday, said it has arrested five persons in connection with the killings by suspected herdsmen in Agadama, Avwon and Okugbe communities of Uwheru Kingdom, Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. The arrest came as sources from Ughelli Central Hospital mortuary told Vanguard that autopsy on the eight locals […]
[ad_1] There appears no respite yet for Hibiscus flower exporters, as stakeholders wait for the green light to restart the export of the commodity to Mexico, adjudged Nigeria’s biggest export market. For now, no date has been fixed for the lifting of the ban placed on the produce by the Mexican government since 2017. Investigations […]