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Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation (SWOFON) have attributed most challenges facing farming by women is the activities of “political farmers’’ while claiming that 70 per cent of farmers in Nigeria now are women. This statement was made by the national coordinator of the group, Mrs Janet Adejoh, in Abuja. Participants, who spoke with News Agency […]
The Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, has said that Africa does not lack capacity but the need to strengthen its capacity is very key to the development of the economy. The DG/CEO made this assertion when he received participants of the ICGEB/NABDA/NBMA/SCBD GMO detection training in […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono on Wednesday, said that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari had outperformed any other government in the past. Nanono disclosed this at a National Agriculture Retreat with the theme ‘Harnessing our Next Level in Agricultural Development’ organized by Northern Nigeria Agricultural Summit. The Minister who […]
The days of heaping 50kg sacks of rice across the saddle of their motorbike and slipping a few notes to a customs officer are now gone. With Nigeria having snapped its borders shut, the legions of motorbike riders who used to satisfy the nation’s hunger for imported rice are lucky at best to sneak through […]
The National Economic Council, NEC, yesterday approved N100 billion for National Livestock Transformation Programme, NLTP with a declaration that it does not accommodate foreign pastoralists. NEC also lamented that Nigeria has lost 22.6 million barrels of oil to the activities of petroleum pipeline vandalism and stealing of crude oil in the first six months of […]
The Delta State Commissioner for Agriculture, Hon. Julius Egbedi yesterday flagged off the Patani Local Government Council Agricultural Revolution 2019. PLOGCAR was flagged off with a call on other Council Chairmen to emulate same. The program, a brainchild of Barr Perez Omoun, Patani Council boss had 200 persons smiling home with grants and 52 others […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has committed about N30 billion to enhance Oil-palm production in the country. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this in a meeting with some state Governors in Abuja on Thursday. Emefiele explained that the fund was disbursed through deposit money banks to six oil palm companies […]
Edo Government says no fewer than 2, 000 farmers are benefiting from over 10,600 hectares agricultural project in different parts of the state. The special adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr Crusoe Osagie, made this known in a statement in Benin on Tuesday. Osagie said that the State Government embarked on […]
NORWEGIAN Salmon fish has ranked as the most proteinous fish amongst other specie of fishes.Besides being ranked as one of the nutritious fish, Norwegian salmon producers are also amongst the top companies in the global fish index. While the world’s largest salmon producer, MOWI, is ranked number one in this year’s index, it is closely […]
Delta state government has warned rubber and palm plantation owners against withholding wages of their staff under the guise of deductions for dues and cooperative societies. The state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, handed down the warning while addressing members of the National Union of Agriculture and Allied Employees, NUAAE when the Solidarity Centre in collaboration […]
Our soil is under threat. It’s estimated that we’ve got just 60 years of topsoil left, with 24 billion tons of fertile soil lost every year. With most of the food on our plate dependant on soil, its declining health is a major issue. “The word humans comes from the word humic, which means soil,” […]
South Korea on Tuesday reported its first cases of African swine fever, becoming the latest country hit by the disease that has killed pigs from China to North Korea, pushing up pork prices worldwide. Five pigs found dead at a farm in Paju, a city near the inter-Korean border, were confirmed to have been infected […]
The Dangote tomato processing factory located in Kano is said to be idle at the moment. READ MORE: Nigeria’s Cashew Production To Grow 10 Pct In 2018 – NCAN President The Bloomberg reported that the farmers engaged to supply the factory with raw materials abandoned tomato farming at the start of the rainy season in […]
A consultant to the World Bank, Prof. Abel Ogunwale, has urged government to take steps to control the flow of chemical pesticides to save agribusiness from financial losses. Ogunwale said farmers who use pesticides or fertiliser on their crops risk reduced yield or their produce being damaged or destroyed. Pesticides are chemicals used in agriculture […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Sunday, said it had supported the cultivation of 2,000 hectares out-grower farms in Borno to produce improved variety seedlings and accelerate paddy rice production. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the seeds nurseries were established at Dusuman and Zabalmari villages in Konduga Local Government Area of […]