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Because of climate change, Vietnam’s Kien Giang province is struggling to maintain its place as the country’s biggest rice producer, a distinction it has held for nearly two decades. The province is well positioned to produce rice. Located on the coast, in an area in the Mekong Delta with some of the country’s richest soil, […]
A total of 38.51 million mt of sugarcane was crushed in Central-South Brazil in the first half of September, down 10.9% from 43.31 million mt crushed during the second half of August, and down 15.3% from 45.47 million mt crushed during the year-ago period, trade association UNICA data showed Tuesday. The volume crushed was about […]
Audu Ogbe The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, the head of Audu Ogbe said that the federal government is obliged to revise agriculture as one of the elements of the country's national development. The head of Ogbeh, who made this famous during the inauguration of the Governing Board of the Nigerian Institute for Soil […]
The President of Global AgriTrends says despite the current disruption in the global trade of US pork the long-term outlook remains optimistic In retaliation for import duties imposed by the Trump administration China has raised its duties on US pork to 62 percent and Mexico has imposed 20 percent duties on US ham. “Trump, Trade […]
President Muhammad Bukhari: 58th Independence Ismail Chafe President Muhammad Bukhari assured that the conflict between shepherds and farmers, who are exploited by those who are trying to plant the seeds of discord and disunity among Nigerians, is crucial. The president made this famous by appealing to citizens in a nationwide broadcast as part of events […]
Philippine corn production for marketing year 2017/18 is forecast to drop to only 7.98 mt as production area is seen to decline to less than 2.6 million hectares. The latest corn situation and outlook report from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that the country’s corn hectarage and yield fell by 2.3% and 1.1% year-on-year respectively […]
Shea Butter Production: “At least 500,000 women in rural communities will be empowered by Kaiama Shea Butter Company, based in Quara, offering to plant a million shea butter trees throughout the state”, according to it’s chairman, Mr Temitope Amujo. Shea Butter is obtain from the shea tree [vitellariaparadoxa] Extracted from the nuts of the shea […]
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has said it plans to work with the Taraba State government to transform cassava in the framework of the African Development Bank (AfDB) funded Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) programme. The decision is part of a two-day visit to Taraba State, which ended today and witnessed the […]
maize FEMI IBIROGBA writes that 58 years after Nigeria became politically independent, the country is still constrained by food insecurity, as evidenced by the annual invoices for food imports. Nigerians from all walks of life complained about the country's inability to sustainably feed, which led to a massive importation of products, in addition to smuggled […]
Minister of Agriculture Audu Ogbe The outgoing Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Bukar Hassan, called on all Ministry staff to remain committed to achieving the goal of ensuring national food security for the country and ensuring that agriculture reaches its well-deserved position in national development. He said this […]
Nigeria Interns participating in training monthly agricultural enterprises in Umuahia, the capital of the state of Abia, for 150 ex-agitators from the Nigerian delta, called for an extension of the deadline for future beneficiaries. The training, the second of which was organized by the Presidential Amnesty Department, was conducted by the Abia Agricultural Development Program […]
Dr Babajide Adelekan, Provost of the Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan, Oyo State, speaks with FEMI IBIROGBA on the state of the economy, investment and youth involvement in agriculture, and diversification of the economy, among other issues. Is agriculture a potential tool to combat poverty in Nigeria? It has been trending recently that 87 million […]
Abu Dhabi-based Al Dahra Holding said on Monday it will invest a further $500m in various sectors in the Romanian market after acquiring the largest farm producer there. Al Dahra, which has been expanding aggressively in eastern Europe in the last five years, said it had bought Romania’s Agricost and Braila Island “recently”, but did […]
The drought has heavily affected grain, rapeseed, and forage production in Germany. As a result, Germany is expected to strongly increase imports of soybeans/soybean meal and to become a net grain importer. The US is set to become top source of soybeans to Germany. The drought was officially declared, “a weather incident of national extent,” […]
WHEAT. Over the period under review (September 13-20), CBOT wheat futures gained 8.8%, reports UkrAgroConsult. The major bullish factors were the following: – switching to a new contract; – weakening of the US dollar index; – weekly data on wheat contracting in the USA; – worsening of weather conditions in Australia – frost joined the […]