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Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe The Gombe State Government has advised local farmers in the state to embrace the new farming technologies introduced by the Sasakawa Global 2000 to boost their productivity. The Director, Extension Services in the state Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Sunday Lah, gave the advice when the Country Director, Sasakawa Global 2000, […]
Croatia’s 2018 wheat output rose 6.3% year-on-year, reaching 725,000 tonnes, the country’s statistical office said on Wednesday, citing preliminary data. The wheat yield in 2018 amounted to 5.4 tonnes per harvested hectare, the statistical office said in a statement. The results were based on data collected by September 15. The output of rapeseed rose by […]
“After a lot of research, we found out that it is agriculture that we could do,” Kaamil tells Start-Up … His aim is to provide food to over 180 Nigerians. Source link
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Bank, Mr. Ifie Sekibo, has called on financial institutions and the three tiers of government to support agriculture and small and medium scale businesses to fast track the nation’s quest to move from poverty to prosperity. Sekibo also said evidence has shown that countries worldwide that […]
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 […]
The food, beverage and tobacco sector has played a major role of providing food, jobs and wealth in Nigeria. However, the National President, Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, Quadri Olaleye, spoke on the challenges bedevilling the sub-sector and the need for government’s intervention. Goddy Egene provides the excerpt: What is the state […]
Image: DW Nigeria can overcome poverty with investment in agriculture, according to the Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) in Ekiti State, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN). Babalola also said the move would help in the creation of jobs in the West African nation. He said this over the weekend at the Afe Babalola Agricultural Expo […]
WORLD wheat production estimates have dropped significantly this season, with the United States Department of Agriculture October forecast for 2018-19 a mere 730.92 million tonnes. That’s a 2.15 per cent drop since the May figure of 747 million tonnes. The report, released earlier this month, put estimated world wheat ending stocks at 260.18 million tonnes, […]
Ereme displaying a rabbit The Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) has demonstrated that youths, women and retirees can make millions of naira practicing low-capital agriculture with its simple, innovative but profitable agro-allied enterprise prototypes. The model enterprises include cane rat, rabbit and snail farming, with simple housing, cost-effective feeds and sustainable returns on investments […]
An official says the Iranian government needs no more wheat imports thanks to favorable crop harvest and procurement from local farmers at a time of diminishing grain stocks around the world. Largely self-sufficient in wheat a decade ago, Iran emerged as one of the world’s biggest importers a few years ago but a raft of […]
Wide-ranging reforms are needed to make Nigeria’s economy more sustainable and resilient, a World Bank Consultant, Prof. Abel Ogunwale, has said. Ogunwale said there was a need to reform the agricultural sector to ensure poverty reduction and greater food security. According to him, the agricultural sector is an important part of the economy and provides […]
Rice Farm Professionals and stakeholders in the agricultural sector have called on other states in the country to emulate the Kebbi State government, which has been working the talking by consistently allocating over 10 per cent of the state budget to the sector since 2015. The Coordinator of Oxfam International (an international confederation of 20 Non-Governmental Organisations […]
Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry Lead paper presenters at the 2018 agricultural symposium organised by the agricultural group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry have advocated scaling up of risk mitigation through insurance, funding and industrialisation of agriculture as essentials of food security as the population growth in the country increases. Chairman […]
The Victims Support Fund (VSF) has begun distributing livestock to 4,000 households affected by insurgency in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe in efforts to assure food security and livelihood. The Executive Director VSF, Prof. Sunday Ochoche, flagged off the distribution in Konduga, Borno, where 400 households got three female Borno Brown goats and a male alongside […]
THE Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Prof. Felix Salako, has said efforts to modernise agriculture are being done without sufficient scientific data on soil types and capability for crop performance. Salako, who spoke during a visit to Vintage Press Limited, Publishers of The Nation, said it was necessary to carry out a national […]