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[ad_1] Humans have deployed technology to defy nature’s limitations on the cultivation of food – often to nature’s detriment. Now, a growing number of venture capitalists are doubling down on technology to harmonize agriculture and nature. Mission-driven investment firms are writing early stage checks to companies making biological crop treatments, food preservation techniques and tech-controlled […]
[ad_1] The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, has restated the Federal Government’s commitment to training more than 50,000 agricultural extension workers to boost agricultural production in Nigeria. The minister disclosed this during a 3-day Annual National Stakeholders Review and Planning Workshop on Wednesday in Zaria. Represented by Mr Frank Satumari, Director […]
[ad_1] Members of Idjerhe Youth Council, IYC, in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State have advised President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, all elected leaders from the Urhobo land (Delta Central), including Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, to urgently call on killer herdsmen to relocate from their ancestral land. In a communique by President of […]
[ad_1] Uyo—The Speaker of Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr Aniekan Bassey, warned yesterday that Miyetti Allah would be held responsible for any killing by herdsmen in the state. He gave the warning as the Commissioner of Police in the state, Imohimi Edgal, advised community leaders in the state to engage in regular security […]
[ad_1] AgFunder’s sixth annual investment report — rather flirtatiously described by the research team as “our love letter to the industry” — is now officially published; it can be downloaded right here, right now. There’s more maths behind this romantic agri-foodtech gesture than quills by moonlight: “Utilizing new advanced machine-learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to […]
[ad_1] Three states are ready for the take off of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) of National Economic Council (NEC), Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi has disclosed. Umahi, who is the Chairman of NEC’s Sub-committee on Farmer-Herder Crisis, spoke after the committee’s meeting with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, […]
[ad_1] As part of efforts to improve access to nutritious food and revive livelihood of Cameroonian Refugees and their host communities in Nigeria, 1000 Households in seven affected local government areas (LGAs) in Cross River state have collected micro-gardening kits, safe kits, farm tools, and equipment. The intervention carried out under the joint project “Agriculture […]
[ad_1] Stakeholders in agribusiness have raised concern over the increasing threat of post-harvest loss in the tomato value-chain, a development if not tackled with needed solution; is capable of frustrating policies on food security in the country. Besides, the experts working under the Yieldwise Nigeria project worried over low budgetary allocation and inactive policy direction […]
[ad_1] NewLeaf Symbiotics, which develops and commercializes proprietary microbes for biological inputs, has raised $20 million in Series D funding. Koch Agronomic Holdings, Leaps by Bayer, Otter Capital, S2G Ventures and RockPort Capital were participants in the investment round. The company raised a $30 million Series C in 2017 that was used to triple its […]
[ad_1] The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has asked the Peoples Democratic Party PDP to engage in rice farming as a way out of its current joblessness rather than attempting to ask the Supreme Court to review the 2019 general elections outcome. “At this period that our government is working hard to ensure food sufficiency […]
[ad_1] Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state says his administration has boosted rice production to 3 million tonnes yearly to meet local demand. Ganduje disclosed this on Monday in Kano at the launch of indigenous rice value-chain promotion programme organised by the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) in partnership with R-CONNECT. He attributed the […]
[ad_1] Royal fathers in Delta North have given armed herdsmen in the region notice to quit and asked security agencies to arrest the upsurge of herdsmen’s killings, maiming and attacks of harmless indigenes of the area. Rising from a crucial meeting of Delta North traditional rulers forum at Owa Oyibu, Ika North Local Government Area […]
[ad_1] The global food system is changing in a few key ways. Chief among them is increasing consumer demand for more information about where their food comes from. As a farmer producing pasture-raised, grass-finished beef, lamb, and goat meat for direct-to-consumer sales, I see it happening every day. The demand extends to more than just […]
[ad_1] Kano State governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has said as part of efforts to contribute towards discouraging the importation of foreign rice into the country, his administration has boosted local rice production to three million tones (3million tones) in a year to meet the people demands on rice consumption. This is just as the l […]
[ad_1] Farmers in Kano State have hailed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) ongoing Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) but tasked government to increase funding for the agriculture sector. They said this is to ensure increased productivity and galvanise the drive to make Nigeria food sufficient by 2030, in line with the 2030 zero-hunger agenda. The […]