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The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich has recognized a local technological device developed by a Nigerian on the transformation of the cassava value chain development and other crops in Africa. The technology, ‘flash dryer’ dries agricultural products such as yam, cassava, potato and other granulated food commodities for elongated shelf life. […]
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture is committed to refocusing the agricultural sector by educating farmers on the right technologies to adopt during production, processing, packaging and marketing. The Director, Extension Services of the Ministry, Dr. Karima Babangida, made this known during the 2019 Annual National Agricultural Extension Review and Planning Meeting held at the National […]
The Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS) has said it is ready to clampdown on unqualified and fake soil scientists in the country. The institute said it had reached an advanced stage towards the planned prosecution of unqualified soil scientists. The Registrar, NISS, Professor Victor Chude, who made this known in Abuja at the induction […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, (FMARD), Sabo Nanono, says the Federal Government is committed to ensuring the take-off of University of Agriculture, Zuru, Kebbi, in 2020. Nanono made this known in a statement issued by the Director of Information, Mr Theodore Ogaziechi, on Tuesday in Abuja. The minister gave the assurance […]
Experts believe that, like in cassava, production of abundant yam without storage facilities and industrial utilisation could lead to gluts.Gluts, they argued, could lead to discouragement and down-scaling of yam production in the country.If Nigeria has not got it right in the quantity of any other crop, it has in the production of root and […]
Celebrating its 125 years of research and impacts, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, has acknowledged the positive impacts of a homegrown technological device developed in Nigeria on value chain development of the root and tuber crops in Africa. The institute admits that smallholder farmers have benefited and would continue to improve their […]
Scientists have identified systematic meanders in the globe-circling northern jet stream that have caused simultaneous crop-damaging heat waves in widely separated breadbasket regions-a previously unquantified threat to global food production that, they say, could worsen with global warming. The research shows that certain kinds of waves in the atmospheric circulation can become amplified and then […]
The use of biofuel has sparked hundreds of complaints from farmers who claim it is forcing them into “unacceptable” costly machinery repairs. Adding biofuel – which is made from organic materials rather than fossil fuels – to diesel supplies is seen as one way of reducing carbon emissions from vehicles such as tractors. But farmers […]
ANOTHER round of tension is brewing in the polity following the announcement by the Federal Government that it is remodelling “grazing areas” throughout the country into ranches. This is coming after the RUGA policy was comprehensively rejected in all states in the South East, South-South, South West and majority of states in the Middle Belt […]
COMMUNIQUE OF THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXPO ON RESEARCH AND INNOVATIONS IN AGRICULTURE HOSTED BY AGROBUSINESS TIMES AT THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAGOS, ON OCTOBER 24, 2019. INTRODUCTION: The International Conference and Expo on Research and Innovations in Agriculture (ICERIA 2019) by AGROBUSINESS TIMES was successfully hosted and held at the International […]
Men of Ogun State Police Command last week arrested four men for shooting a herdsman in Odeda area of the state. This was contained in a press statement signed by the Police Public Relations Officers in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi in Abeokuta on Tuesday. Oyeyemi said the suspects; Ogunseye Funso, Ominyin Benjamin and two […]
IN order to avert another herders-farmers clash in Oyo, a Fulani herder, Ali Manu, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command for allegedly leading 100 cows to a five-acre cassava farm at Abidioke Village in Ibarapa North Local Government Area and destroyed it. The herder was said […]
The Nigeria Farmers Group and Cooperative Society (NFGCS), has moved to create a larger market window for farmers by aggregating rice paddy across Nigeria to meet increasing demand occasioned by borders closure. A rice paddy is an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown. The National Coordinator of the group, Mr Tedheke Retson, made […]
Fakunle explained to The Guardian at the processing facility that “transporters charge really high fares. For example, if the bags of rice are to be taken from Bachita to Ibadan, it will cost a total of N250,000 while from Ibadan to Osun, it is about N200,000.”Another challenge of processors, he added, is that most paddies […]
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) has urged Federal Government to sustain its current border closure, saying it would help boost the economy. Alhaji Idris Abini, the chairman of Niger State chapter of the association made the call in Minna during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday. Abini said […]