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Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today urged his Nigerian counterpart to consider import of agri commodities such as wheat, rice, maize, cotton, pepper and fresh grapes. In a meeting with Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Audu Ogbeh, Singh also called on the African country to take advantage of the line of credit extended […]
The President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Prof. Segun Ajibola has advised commercial banks in the country to increase credit to the private sector to grow the economy. Ajibola said this at an inaugural lecture he delivered at Caleb University, Imota, Lagos, a copy of which was made available to us. […]
A coalition of Civil Society Groups (CSOs) has lauded Gov. Abdulaziz Yari of Zamafara State on his achievements in agriculture, Information Technology Communication (ICT), healthcare, education among others. A statement by Mr Solomon Adodo, National Convener of the coalition on Sunday in Abuja, said that the pass mark on Yari was based on-the- ground assessment […]
‘Why I’m Passionate About Agripreneur with your first and second degrees in religion, what informed your motivated you to venture into agribusiness? Well, I must note that the purpose of education is to equip you, challenge the status quo and not to get stuck with your field of study. Since I left university in 2010, […]
An air of excitement is presently sweeping through Gaate village, a rural settlement along the Keffi-Akwanga road in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State as a cooperative farming society begins the first harvest of maize which it cultivated in the last planting season. Gaate community leased a thousand hectares of its land over a […]
Can lower-income countries develop sustainable food systems? France, Japan and Germany lead the world Ethiopia, coming 12th in our Food Sustainability Index, performed better than both the US and China. Nigeria came 24th out of the 34 countries in the coverage, performing better than Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Brazil, India and United Arab Emirates. Food represents […]
As we look ahead to 2018, Ivan Tolchinsky, CEO of Atlas Dynamics, a young aerospace company providing autonomous and semiautonomous professional drone solutions, gives his predictions on where he believes the drone industry is headed. 1. Regulation will increase. This will be driven by concerns over safety, privacy, and the illicit use of consumer drones […]
Until we overcomes the three main obstacles below, fully autonomous tech won’t go prime time. 1. Technology isn’t quite ready. “Auto steer relies only on RTK GPS technology,” says Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, IDTechEx Ltd. Fully autonomous tractors require a number of different and often overlapping sensors to navigate properly if GPS is not available and to […]
Late fall can present challenges when it comes to fertilizer application. Poor timing of fall fertilizer applications can cause the risk of nutrient loss through runoff. Fabian Fernandez, University of Minnesota (U of M) Extension nutrient specialist, reminds growers to wait until the soils are 50°F. and cooling before make fall anhydrous ammonia applications, but […]
A Corn Crop Is Not Profitable Brazilian producers have already planted 92% of the estimated area for soybeans in the 2017/2018 harvest, according to AgRural survey. The number surpasses 90% of last year and 87% of the average of five years. Input sales are a good thermometer to evaluate crop performance. When the outlook is […]
Disbursement of funds for the Agri-Business, Small and Medium Enterprises Investment Scheme (AGSMEIS), an initiative of the Bankers’ Committee has commenced. The scheme was formally approved at the committee’s 331st meeting held in February this year. The initiative is to support the federal government’s efforts and policy measures for the promotion of agricultural business and […]
An estimated 200 families have been displaced at Mbiabong Ito, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State as a result of the alleged invasion of the community by Fulani herdsmen. Information gathered from the area which is about 100 kilometres from Calabar indicated that Fulani herders in their scores invaded farmlands in the community, […]
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Mr. Aliyu A. Abdulhameed, has said that talking too much without action was not in NIRSAL’s DNA. Aliyu stated this yesterday while responding to questions during the national symposium on agriculture with the theme; fixing Nigerian agricultural […]
The Executive Director of Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), Mr. Dapo Olorunyomi, has revealed that the National Symposium on Agriculture, organized yesterday in Abuja, at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, in collaboration with the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), was designed to unravel the bottlenecks bedeviling the agricultural value […]
The Oyo State chapter of Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has demanded the prosecution of all police officers involved in the brutalization of students and staff of Federal College of Agriculture, (FCA) and Institute for Agricultural Research and Training, (IAR&T), Moor Plantation, Ibadan, during Monday’s protest. The group, which made this demand in a statement signed […]