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India and Afghanistan are pushing ahead with plans to open a new transportation corridor between the two countries via Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar despite US sanctions. New Delhi sees the port crucial to its connectivity ambitions, including access to CIS countries – a regional organization of 10 post-Soviet republics in Eurasia. For landlocked Afghanistan, […]
THE House of Representatives Committee on Water Resources has called for more budgetary allocation in the 2019 Appropriation Bill for Ogun-Oshun River Basin Development Authority (OORBDA), Abeokuta, to enable the government agency delivered its core mandate to the people. This call was made by the Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Haman Pategi,while speaking with journalists […]
The Nigerian Agriculture Quarantine Service (NAQS), has raised the alarm that many export cargoes bound for foreign countries now bypass inspection at Apapa port. The government agency assigned to carry out examination process on agric produce before shipping out of the country alleged that the agency is being excluded from cargo examination process at the […]
Bangladesh’s state tender to purchase and import 50,000 tonnes of wheat on Wednesday drew a lowest offer from trading house Swiss Singapore Overseas of $291.93 a tonne CIF liner out, officials at the state grains buyer said. Three other trading houses competed for the tender from Bangladesh’s Directorate General of Food. No purchase has yet […]
The Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IART), Ibadan, has advised farmers to actively engage in mushroom cultivation because of its great revenue generation potential. The Executive Director of IART, Prof. James Adediran, gave the advice in Ibadan on Monday at a workshop organised by IART on edible mushroom production. Adediran, who was represented by […]
Chief Emmanuel Ogunnaike, is the Chairman of Folhope Limited, a company renown for integrated farming which includes livestock production, among others. In this interview by NURUDEEN ALIMI, he lists reasons government should exempt farmers, particularly poultry farmers, from all forms of taxation. YOU were at the Oyo State House of Assembly’s Speaker’s office where you […]
Yewande Kazeem is a 2018 fellow of the Cornell Alliance for Science. In this interview with NKECHI ISAAC, she highlights the benefits of modern agricultural biotechnology application in Nigeria. With a population of over 180 million, Nigeria is facing food shortage, especially in the north east. How can the country deploy biotechnology to provide for […]
Wheat, a major staple food and cash crop of the country, would be cultivated over 8,781.6 thousand hectares of land across crop producing areas of the country during Rabi season 2018-19 in order to produce about 25.572 million tons of grains for fulfilling the domestic requirements as well as to exports. In this regard, all […]
Image: Mynairanaija Israel will train 1000 rice farmers from Cross River State on modern farming techniques, following the signing of a pact between both parties. Governor Ben Ayade signed the pact on behalf of the State as he noted that the move is to make the South-South State the leading producer of rice in the […]
Audu Ogbeh THE Federal Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has launched an intervention programme aimed at increasing local milk production. The Permanent Secretary in the agric ministry, Dr Abdulkadir Mua’zu, made this known while addressing participants at a two-day workshop on good dairy practices, which held at Momak Hotel, […]
Lago – Leaders of Buhari Youth Organisation (BYO), on Saturday said that the achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari had been under-reported to the public. The group made this known during its 3rd Annual Independence Youth Pep Talk Programme organised in partnership with the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups (NCBSG) held in Lagos. President Buhari […]
The imports of edible oil into the country like soyabean and palm during first quarter of financial year 2018-19 reduced by 70.47 percent and 4.82 percent respectively as compared the corresponding period of last year. During the period from July-September, 2018 import of soyabean oil into the country decreased by 70.47 percent and it was […]
File Photo A Multi-level Marketing Platform, Happy World Meal Gate (HWMG) has urged the Federal Government (FG) to go beyond agricultural policies by speeding up implementation and open farm plantations in all geopolitical zones in the country. The Managing Director, Mr Sulaiman Lento made this known to newsmen at its 2nd-year-anniversary briefing, held recently, in […]
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) says any new trade agreement involving the United States and the United Kingdom or the European Union must include the elimination of tariff and non-tariff trade barriers on pork Last week, on the heels of the successful conclusion of negotiations aimed at modernising trade agreements with Canada and Mexico […]
Engr. Saliu Ahmed is the Managing Director, Benin Owena River Basin Development Authority. In this interview, he spoke on the impact of the authority in driving the Federal Government’s agricultural agenda, provision of water and other sundry issues. Excerpt: Your appointment is still relatively new, how long do you think it will take you before […]