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Benue Killings Threaten Nigeria Monthly 480Tonnes Yam Export, Nigeria’s monthly export target of 480tonnes of yam to the United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates, as well as key European countries is under threat by the rising insecurity in Benue state, in Nigeria, BusinessDay investigations has revealed. Yam, a staple food virtually consumed by every household […]
Buhari Harps On Agriculture, As American Companies Eye Nigeria Market, President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his call on youths in Nigeria to seize opportunities in agriculture, a sector of the economy he said is already proving to be the bedrock of the nation’s new economy. The President stated this at the Blair House, Washington DC, […]
Nigeria Must Commercialise Research To Generate Increase IGR, Research institutions in the country need to commercialize their research products to increase Internally Generated Revenue, according to the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development Heineken Lokpobiri. Lokpobiri noted this recently during a two-day facility tour of the three research institutes domiciled in Ahmadu Bello […]
Niger Rice Cuts Imports, Says FADAMA, Niger State has contributed to the reduction of rice imports, the National Fadama Co-ordination Office has said. Nigeria has been listed among the 16 top producers of rice with its local production valued at N684 billion ($1.9 billion). Niger State produced 545,700 metric tonnes (MT) of rice to top […]
Strategies To Boost Cassava Production, Stakeholders have called for pragmatic strategies to improve Nigeria‘s position as a leading cassava producer, using innovation and technology. Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) Director, Dr Claude Fauquet, who spoke at a briefing in Lagos, ahead of the group’s International Cassava Conference slated for June 11 to […]
WACOT Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of TGI Group, in Kano, has rewarded 100 of its top dealers for their efforts in marketing its products. They were rewarded with various gifts such as motorcycles, television sets, refrigerators with a car as the star prize. Its Managing Director, Mr. Ujwal Senapati, who spoke at the ceremony, reiterated […]
The Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK) is to begin community tree planting across the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of the state. The campaign has “Plant a tree”as its theme. At its weekly management meeting, its General Manager, Mrs. Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola said the community tree planting, […]
Black leaf streak disease or black Sigatoka, yellow Sigatoka, and eumusae leaf spot are three closely related and complex diseases that constrain banana and plantain production globally. They are caused by three fungi belonging to the genus Pseudocercospora. These are P. fijiensis, P. musae, and P. eumusae, that cause black Sigatoka, yellow Sigatoka, and eumusae […]
Scientists from IITA and partner institutions have carried out the first known proteomic investigation into plantain. The results of the study are featured in a paper, titled “The plantain proteome, a focus on allele specific proteins obtained from plantain fruits” by N.A. Campos, R. Swennen, and S.C. Carpentier. Proteomics entails the study of the expression […]
Researchers Develop A New Way To Describe Plantain Diversity In DRC, Researchers studying the morphological (structure and form) diversity of plantain in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have developed an innovative way to describe plantain diversity using descriptors based on performance, grouping them into main, secondary, and rare descriptors. The morphological identification of plantain […]
Youth Initiative In Agribusiness Helping Transform African Agriculture, Youth Initiative In Agribusiness Helping Transform African Agriculture, Mercy Haruna Wakawa from Borno State, Nigeria, was looking forward to getting a job after graduating from the University of Maiduguri where she studied Food Science and Technology. After so many futile efforts to get a job, and almost […]
Over 500 rice farmers in Bayelsa State have received seedlings, fertilizers, spray machines and other rice farming inputs from the ongoing Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrowers Programme of the Federal Government. (Bayelsa CBN Anchor Borrowers Scheme Over 500 Rice Farmers Benefits) READ MORE: Rice To Sell For N10,000 A Bag Soon, Says Kebbi Governor […]
The Nigeria’s former ambassador to the United Nations, founder and chairman of Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, recently suggested the revival of the 1965 Grazing Reserve Law as solution to the incessant herdsmen/farmers clashes in the country. Gambari said the law can be revived based on Section 315 of the […]
Experts have advised farmers on ideal situation for intercropping leguminous with non-leguminous crops so as to enhance the fertility of the soil and get maximum yield on the farm. An agronomist, Alhaji Kabir R. Charanchi who has decades of experience in the field said that some farmers plant legumes in between the stems of the […]
How To Build, Maintain Soil Fertility, Soil forms the bedrock upon which plants grow, but the effects of climate change and other destructive land practices like deforestation contribute to depletion of soil nutrients which inorganic fertilisers alone cannot substitute, thus significantly resulting to decline in yield of crops. It is key to maintain a fertile […]