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Argentina has overhauled its export regime for grains, oilseeds and any derivative product on Monday after President Mauricio Macri said he would ask exporters who have benefitted from a collapse in the peso to do more to help the country eliminate its primary fiscal deficit next year. The measure, at current exchange rates, effectively introduces […]
Professor Charles Dokubo, Special Adviser to the President for Delta Affairs and Coordinators in Nigeria, Presidential Amnesty Program (middle, front), right, Professor George Salachas; Dr Effiong Essien; Mr. Ioannis Inglesis and Mr. George Dimacopulos during the visit of the Greek instructors to the Amnesty office in Abuja on Tuesday. The special adviser to the president […]
Agriculture was designed as one of the main driving forces for Africa's economic recovery, supplemented by a growing interest in the continent's natural resources. More than 60 percent of the world's available and unused arable land is in sub-Saharan Africa, and in Nigeria, agriculture accounts for about 22 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) […]
Illegal pork shipments from Thailand has affected the domestic meat market in Myanmar. Myanmar Livestock Federation joint secretary U Zaw Myo Tun said the country’s swine industry is being challenged because of developments in Vietnam and Thailand. “The slaughterhouses do not buy the pigs from us, as supply from Thailand is half of what our […]
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Audu Ogbe said that the government is taking steps to ensure food security for Nigerians. Speaking during the annual lecture of the League of Catholic Brethren in Lagos, Ogbeh explained that ensuring food security is a priority issue for the government. He said that the government is working to […]
British sugar farmers are calling on the Government to maintain the EU’s import tariffs and quotas in order to protect their businesses after Brexit. Unilaterally reducing tariffs to zero in a no-deal scenario would put the 3,000 jobs which depend on growing sugar beet in the UK at threat, farmers and economists have warned. Michael […]
The rise in temperature leads to the growth of pests on crops such as rice, corn and wheat, which are the most important food products and raw materials around the world. "With warming temperatures, when the climate warms, these very hungry caterpillars can become even hungrier and more abundant. Loss of crop pests can grow, […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria, through its Borrowers Program, distributed pesticides and fertilizers to approximately 227 rice farmers in the state of Beyls.The chairman of the government of the Nigerian rice farmers association, Ezikel Ogbanko, who yesterday reported this during the flag of the wind season in Jenago, thanked the federal government for initiating a […]
A policy that grants farmers ownership of tree trees on cocoa farms in Ghana can help increase yield and curb deforestation, cocao according to government officials and the industry group. Trees grow naturally on many cocoa farms, providing a shadow for a subtle culture. But they belong to the state, and not to farmers, according […]
A drought that singed parts of Canada’s prairies will crimp wheat and canola output more than expected by analysts, government data showed, sending crop futures to one-week highs. Parts of Canada, one of the world’s top wheat exporters and the top canola producer, suffered from lower-than-average precipitation and high temperatures, eroding yields, the government said. […]
US Ambassador Pushes IITA Youth Agripreneurs To Create Jobs For African Youths: On 28 August, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Stuart Symington, accompanied by Benjamin Williams, Political and Economic Officer from the office of the US Consulate General, paid a courtesy visit to IITA to meet the IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) and learn […]
A WET end to winter has firmed the chances of a Statewide grain harvest that will go down in the record books, pumping more than $6 billion into the WA economy. On the first day of spring yesterday, WA Farmers president Tony York said crops were powering ahead thanks to more good rainfall across much […]
Set for drip irrigation By observing the law of supply and demand, the prices of agricultural products in dry seasons are often much higher than in rainy seasons, because rain farming allows all farmers to process and collect almost simultaneously. For example, tubers of yam are ridiculously cheap now, from the point of view of […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance 5-Sep-18 Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Anchau Market , Kaduna State Beans (White) 100Kg 27,000 Tier 750 307 27,000 750 0 0 Garri (White) 50Kg 17,000 Tier 410 247 18,000 430 -1000 -20 Groundnut (Edible) […]
The head of Audi Ogbe, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development recently in Lagos, made a solemn statement, but with a firm belief that by 2020 Nigeria will not only stop importing rice, but will also become a net exporter. CHIKA IZUORA in this report, looks at the indices that give impetus to this […]