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[FILE PHOTO] Tractor The Federal Government has concluded plans to import more tractors that will help its plans for agricultural growth in the country. The government has also commenced the training of 30 youths on tractor operations and maintenance. According to Dr Yomi Kasali, who is the Executive Director of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), […]
Kebbi. Photo: BBC Castor seeds production is to receive a boost with the delivery of 500kg of hybrid seeds to Kebbi State farmers by the Raw Materials Research and Development Council, Abuja. Receiving the consignment in Birnin Kebbi, the State Secretary of the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), Abubakar Bagudu Kalgo, commended the […]
[FILE PHOTO] A tomato processing plant in Nigeria The Tomato Processors’ Association of Nigeria has called for a review of the government’s new policy on effective implementation of self-sufficiency in production and local processing of fresh tomatoes into paste across the country. “There have not been any effect on the new policy as the market is continually flooded […]
Palm oil. Photo: GHH headlines Small-scale palm oil farmers from Africa and Asia have kicked against Europe’s never-ending anti-palm oil campaign. The farmers, also known as Farmers Unite, launched the Nigeria-based Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA), which will “be dedicated to fighting dangerous campaigns by Western politicians, the political elite, the media, uncompetitive oilseed […]
[FILE PHOTO] Fall Armyworms The Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Suffyan Koroma, has said that Army worms have caused agricultural damage worth $268 million (N76.48 billion). Suffyan disclosed this on Wednesday in a FAO Situation Report of November, 2018, released in Maiduguri. “Since first observed in 2016, the pest has caused […]
People load their possessions in a car as they evacuate the Ganaropp village in the Barikin Ladi area near Jos on June 27, 2018. Plateau State in Nigeria has seen days of violence where more than 200 people have been killed in clashes between Berom farmers and Fulani herders, Nigeria is facing an escalation in […]
ActionAid Country Director, Ojobo Atuluku The Justice, Development and Peace Centre (JDPC), Ondo State chapter, has faulted the poor priority given to agricultural extension services in the state, warning that it will serve as an obstacle to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in 2030. The JDPC Director, Rev Fr. Damian Adesegha, said this […]
In a bid to boost food production in the country, the federal government has indicated interest to partner with private investors in the area of irrigation in order to achieve food sufficiency. The minister of State, Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, disclosed this in Abuja when he received a delegation of Future Pump […]
Published on 14.11.2018 at 15h21 by APA News The National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) says that Nigeria has entrenched a mining roadmap that is focusing on iron ore, gold, bitumen, coal, limestone, lead and zinc and barite.The association said that the roadmap was conceived to […]
…It’s scary, farmers say Strange case of foot and mouth disease ravaging animals in different parts of Yobe State is scaring livestock farmers in the state. Cases of the disease were said to have been found in communities in Jakusko, Fune, Nangere, Tarmuwa, Potiskum, Damaturu, Fika and Gulani local government areas of the state. Breeders […]
Farmers across the country are expressing hopes that this year’s harvest will be bountiful compared to last years. Some, especially the wet season rice farmers are however counting their loses as a result of floods that ravaged rice farms along the river banks in most rice producing states in the country. Reports from some beans […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, FAO, on Wednesday released its situation report for November 2018, disclosing that an estimated one million and five hundred thousand (1.5 million) households are to be affected by the Fall Army Worm, FAW across some states in the country. The report, which was made available to […]
Cocoa Some young people, especially graduates, see cocoa farming as a poorly rewarding business meant for only the aged people who have resigned to fate. They think farmers, and by extension cocoa producers, have nothing else to show for their labour and drudgery except a beggarly existence. These perceptions are not only false but also […]
Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, on Wednesday, said the ministry had started the process of establishing Songhai model of agriculture to increase food production and job creation. Adamu, who said this at the ongoing Nigeria Media Water Week in Abuja, noted that this was also in line with the Federal Government’s Economic […]
Prof. Olubunmi Omotesho, University of Ilorin, on Tuesday said the problems of agriculture in Nigeria and Africa could be attributed mainly to climate change. Omotesho made this known at a two-day Policy Dialogue on Crop/Livestock Integration, organised by Synergos Nigeria, in collaboration with other stakeholders in Abuja. He said that climate change, which resulted in […]