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ADVERTISEMENT A cowpea farm at the University of Agriculture in Makurdi The ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has called for direct allocation from government to Agricultural Development programme (ADP) as part of measures to ensure access to extension services especially by smallholder women farmers. The AAN Food and Agriculture Programme Coordinator, Azubike Nwokoye, made the call in […]
A bill to prohibit the killing and export of donkeys or its derivatives, was on Tuesday read for the first time at the House of Representatives. The “Bill to enact the donkey export and killing (prohibition) bill, 2018” was sponsored by Garba Datti Muhammed (APC, Kaduna). In a lead debate, Muhammed said the main thrust […]
(2nd R) Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Aisha Abubakar; Deputy Governor of jigawa State, Ibrahim Hassan, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed; Governor of Jigawa State Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe at a Special Town Hall Meeting on Agriculture in Dutse, Jigawa State, on […]
THE National President of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Mr. Ezekiel Ibrahim, has disclosed that the poultry industry can drive the nation’s economy if government gives more attention to the industry in the areas of policies formulation and implementation. Ibrahim said this at the opening ceremony of 8th edition of the Nigeria Poultry Show […]
It was a huge week for EU corn imports as 582,658 mt arrived in the bloc in the week to November 11, the biggest single week of imports since March 2017, data from the European Commission showed Monday. Big buying in the Netherlands (297,623 mt) and Spain (129,712 mt) drove this week’s volumes, with Ireland […]
Nigeria’s Information and Culture Minister Mr Lai Mohammed promises never to contest for any post in 2019 general election but focuses on liberating Kwara State. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the Federal Government expended N2.7 trillion on agriculture and provision of other critical infrastructure in the 2017 budget. […]
GOVERNMENT has been asked to declare a state of emergency in the agriculture research sector. Making the call was the Chairman, Board of fellows, Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), Professor Ebenezer Adebisi Adebowale, while speaking with the Nigerian Tribune over the weekend. He pointed out that agricultural researches need adequate funding and there was […]
AGRI-GIANT Wilmar International’s net profit for the third quarter jumped 10.7 per cent to US$407.4 million from a restated US$368.1 million a year ago led by better showing in tropical oils and oilseeds and grains businesses. An added boost to the bottom line came from higher share of results of affiliates and a slight improvement […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has identified Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) and ZSoonosis as one of the major challenges constraining the country’s agricultural sector. Zoonosis is animal diseases transferable to man. Mr Suffyan Koroma, the FAO Country Representative made this known in Abuja at a three-day training on Good Emergency Management Practices (GEMP). Kotoma, […]
Chief Audu Ogbe Minister of Agriculture Mills By Ginika Okoye The Federal Government has commenced distribution of cattle feed mills and rice milling machines to increase local rice production and end farmers/herdsmen clashes across the country. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the move was also to use agricultural wastes […]
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Malaysia’s total palm oil stocks in October 2018 rose 7.63 per cent to 2.72 million tonnes from 2.52 million tonnes in September. Crude palm oil (CPO) stocks increased 13.94 per cent to 1.61 million tonnes during the month from 1.41 million tonnes in the preceding month. Stocks of processed palm oil decreased slightly by 0.4 […]
By Willie Samson Governor Kayode Fayemi has said his administration’s plan to focus on agriculture and rural development is to reposition Ekiti State as a food basket for the country. Fayemi The governor, who said that farming remained the number one pre-occupation of Ekiti people, said his government would partner with the farmers and some […]
The Federal Government is targeting five percent interest rate loans for farmers through the reformed Bank of Agriculture (BOA) in order to achieve food sufficiency in the country. The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh said the reform which is expected to be concluded by December will have farmers as shareholders of the […]
WIDESPREAD rain over the central regions of Western Australia in the past month have arrested the slide in winter crop grain yields and added at least 500,000 tonnes to the Grain Industry Association of Western Australia’s (GIWA) latest estimate for WA production. GIWA is now predicting the state will produce 15.653 million tonnes (Mt) […]