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On October 18, Egypt purchased 470 KMT of milling wheat from Russia, Ukraine & USA to be delivered on December 11–20, 2018 at an average price of USD 252.56/MT C&F. The price in the previous tender equaled USD 253.24/MT C&F. The purchase included the following: Quantity, KMT Origin Shipper FOB ($) Freight ($) C&F ($) […]
There is tension in Taraba as over 750 hectares of rice farm in Dubale Village of Lau local government council, cultivated by Wal-wanne Nigeria Limited have been occupied and completely destroyed by armed herdsmen and their cattle. The farm coordinator, Alhaji Muhammed Musa in a press briefing yesterday in Jalingo lamented that the rice farm […]
Dr. Olaniyan Abayomi Dr Abayomi Olaniyan is the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Ibadan. He has over 30 years of experience in agricultural/horticultural research. He talks with the Head, Agro-Economy Desk, FEMI IBIROGBA, on challenges of agriculture-based research institutes. He says vegetable farming has the potential to lucratively employ […]
IITA World Food Day: Research outputs by Africa Food Prize winner, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), and its national partners are helping farmers to come out of poverty, creating jobs and demonstrating the possibility of having a prosperous African continent, says the Director general of IITA, Dr Nteranya Sanginga today. Addressing stakeholders at […]
Matured Moringa seeds The saying that agriculture is profitable and sustainable is neither rhetoric nor a cacophony. Careful inward looking and proactive efforts in the agricultural sector truly have the potentialities. Income generation, employment creation and poverty alleviation potential of the sector are real considering the foreign exchange earnings from cash crops such as cocoa, […]
Some Asian flour mills are looking to lock in wheat supplies until well into the middle of 2019, potentially shaking off a years-long trend for hand-to-mouth buying as global output is set to drop for the first time in six years. World wheat supplies are forecast to tighten in the second quarter of 2019 as […]
One of the multi-billion naira Federal Government projects that is progressively going down from underutilization, lack of maintenance and upgrade is the Gurara Irrigation Scheme located in Azara-Jere in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The project, which was commissioned less than five years ago, is now becoming a shadow of its original vision. […]
An expert, Mr Ademuwagun Johnson, says cultivation of mushroom is a money-spinner in Nigeria. Johnson, who is the co-owner of A & A Integrated Farms, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said that most people were yet to explore its potential. He expressed regrets that people have not explored the […]
…Farmers’ rush for pesticides hikes prices There has been massive cultivation of beans, also known as cowpea, in Katsina State this year. This is in contrast to what was obtainable in the state in the past years. Our correspondent in the state reports that in the past 10 years, farmers only planted the crop […]
Hordes of Quela birds coming from Baturiya wet land in Guri have destroyed a number of rice farms in Auyo Local Government Area of Jigawa State. This is in addition to the menace of a rice pest popularly known as ‘blight,’ that was already destroying rice farms in the area. Many rice farms in the […]
An agricultural expert, Mr Ismail Olawale, has raised alarm over the spread of aflatoxin in local agricultural produce. Olawale, a researcher at the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS), disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview on Tuesday in Lagos. NAN reports that Aflatoxin is produced by two […]
Brazil’s environment and agriculture ministers have criticized President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s plans to merge their departments, saying it would hurt the country’s agenda on both fronts. Bolsonaro has pledged to roughly halve the number of existing ministries in an effort to reduce bureaucracy and government bloat. He also vowed to merge the planning, finance and industry […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance 31-Oct-18 Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Bodija Market, Oyo State. Beans (White) 100Kg 33,000 Congo 520 388 33,000 520 0 0 Garri (White) 100Kg 10,000 Congo 100 83 10,000 100 0 0 Groundnut (Edible) 100Kg 28,000 […]
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released details about the ongoing and expanding feed and food grain trade with Columbia Wednesday [October 24] in a Foreign Agricultural Service report. The US is anticipated to be the primary source for some feed grains imported by Columbia, including corn, in the 2018/19 marketing year (MY), said the team who […]
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) says the Agrictech innovations will promote the achievement of sustainable food production and sufficiency in the country, if they are properly applied. Chief Femi Oke, the Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of AFAN, said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on […]