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Early this year the Food Connection Challenge called upon SMEs in Nigeria to submit their innovative ideas to reduce post – harvest losses, selected participants benefited from workshops, trainings and innovation coaching to improve their business ideas. The event also availed participating entrepreneurs in agribusiness the opportunity to network with key players and angel investors […]
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar in handshakes with President Muhammadu Buhari. Source: Twitter. The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has said killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen will continue if Nigerians re-elect President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 elections. The former Vice President stated this while reacting to a recent report by […]
Rice farmers in Nigeria No fewer than 12 million farmers have pledged to contribute N100 each to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s return bid in 2019 elections. The farmers are those who benefited from the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. They are insisting that the current agricultural revolution taking place at the grassroot […]
According to USDA estimates, wheat stocks in the top eight exporters (Australia, Argentina, Canada, the EU, the U.S., Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan) will close the 2018/19 season at some 55 MMT, i.e. at the lowest level since MY 2013/14. At the same time, the U.S. share in this volume will set a few-year record of […]
The European Union has become a net importer of grain for the first time in more than a decade following a drought-affected wheat harvest, strong competition in exports from Russia and a record pace of maize imports. As of Dec. 16, the EU has imported 13.15 million tonnes of grain so far in the 2018/19 […]
In a major worry for farmers, oilseed prices are set to decline due to lower demand from the domestic crushing and processing industry, following dumping of edible oil from Malaysia, the country sitting on a massive stockpile and looking for a duty cut to boost its shipment. The government of India had signed the […]
ADVERTISEMENT A farming community gathers under a tree for extension education in Bakori, Katsina Kafur and Katsina, respectively the local governments of both Katsina state governor Aminu Masari and his Deputy Mannir Yakubu, are among the 16 local governments that have failed to show up at the opening of Katsina state Agricultural show. Others are […]
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The planting of rabi pulses in India is still behind last year due to a deficit of productive precipitation during the period of monsoon rains. According to India’s Agriculture Ministry, 11.37 Ml ha had been planted by December 7 (76% of projected area) that is 10% less than a year earlier and 4% below the […]
GRAIN RECEIVALS from the Western Australian harvest to date have hit 13 million tonnes (Mt), with 2.77Mt received in the week to 13 December, according to CBH Group’s latest weekly harvest. After two weeks of peak receivals, daily tonnages started to reduce across the state towards the end of last week, and CBH said some […]
Brazil is prepared in the event China removes tariffs on U.S. soy, which had driven down prices for the oilseed in Chicago and driven up the premiums over U.S. prices paid for Brazilian beans, outgoing Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said. Maggi, who will step down when President-elect Jair Bolsonaro takes office Jan. 1, said removing the […]
Baskets of tomatoes at a Nigerian market Various government efforts at revamping agriculture may have started yielding results as prices of tomatoes and pepper have reduced in major markets in Lagos, South-West Nigeria. A survey by source on Monday at Mile 12, Oyingbo and Iddo markets showed that a 40kg basket of tomatoes goes for […]
China’s grain production has increased from 135 kilograms per mu in 1978 to 367 kilograms recorded in 2017, boosted by indigenous innovation in agriculture, according to the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS) on Sunday. China has cultivated a batch of good germplasm resources and genomes and completed the genetic mapping and sequencing of major […]
Mr Babatunde Ajibola, Head, Media and Communication, Elephant Group Plc, a local rice producing company in Lagos says Nigeria has everything to become giant in rice production in Africa. Ajibola, who said this in a statement to in Lagos on Monday, expressed delight that local rice producing companies were solidly supporting the Federal Government to […]
No fewer than one thousand exhibitors have so far indicated their interest to take part in this year’s Katsina Agricultural show slated to begin on Tuesday next week. The chairman of the main organising committee and Managing Director of the state Agricultural Development Authority, Ibrahim Musawa said the three days vent aimed at showcasing the […]