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Research being conducted by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in seed yam multiplication holds promise to quadruple yam production in the country. This was disclosed as the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, ended a two-day visit to Ibadan last week. Addressing reporters after a tour of IITA facilities, including […]
–Unveils 225 Tractors As part of efforts to increase food production, the Katsina State government has launched a programme called Farm-to-Folk initiative has been launched, in collaboration with Springfield Agro Limited, a Kewalram Chanrai Group company, in partnership with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. 225 tractors were commissioned at the launch, to achieve total mechanisation of […]
Small-scale Women Famers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) has urged the Federal Government to release the 10 per cent allocation provided in the federal budget for agriculture. SWOFON project, funded by Trust Africa with implementation from actionaid, made this call in Calabar, Cross River State, during its Community Scorecard on the Support and Participation of Smallholder […]
The Osun State Broiler Outgrowers Production Scheme (OBOPS), has produced at least five million birds in the last three years, the scheme managers have said.Revealing this at the weekend, Mr. Kolawole Ogini, who is the facilitator of the second phase of the scheme stated that OBOPS has placed Osun among states with relatively high production […]
Agronomist Usman Emmanuel has been a farmer all his life and in fisheries business and consultancy for over three decades. How did you become a fishery expert? I grew up in Kaduna city. My father was a police officer who is also a farmer and I developed the love from there. He told me that […]
An associate professor with the Faculty of Agriculture, Federal University Wukari in Taraba State, Banake E. Sambo has said poor road networks; lack of improved means of transportation to major markets, epileptic power supply and water for easy movement of goods and services are major challenges constraining ginger production in Nigeria. He said this in […]
The Kogi State Government has commenced massive rice production across the state in collaboration with the World Bank and Federal Government assisted FADAMA III Additional Financing (AF) project in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Kehinde Oloruntoba, who spoke during an inspection tour to some of the already cultivated 4,000 hectares of Fadama rice […]
The FarmLogs’ On-Farm Research Network is a collaborative program, which is dedicated to organizing and conducting unbiased research and independent analysis, and is open to row-crop farmers across the country. The company says the goal of this initiative is to accelerate agronomic learning cycles, influence FarmLogs’ product development, and improve prescriptive recommendations for FarmLogs customers. […]
In its bid to ensure agricultural development and improve healthcare delivery, the Caretaker Management Committee of the Obokun Local Government has distributed cocoa seedlings to farmers and drugs to health centres across all towns in the Local Government Area. The Executive Secretary of the council, Alhaji Oladiran Ashaolu, during the distribution of the materials on […]
To say that the discovery of crude oil in the late 1950s in Oloibiri community of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, was the last straw that destroyed the Nigerian agricultural nerve is to state the obvious. Before the discovery of this product that has been given different names including black gold, Nigeria ran an agrarian economy with […]
The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has on Saturday inaugurated a five-man board for SKYRUN Cocoa Processing Industry, Ede, Osun state in a bid to improve on cocoa production in the state and turn Osun to a hub of Chinese investment in Nigeria. This was even as the Chairman of the Shanghai Golden Monkey […]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, will inaugurate a new world-class fertiliser plant built by Indorama Eleme Fertiliser and Chemicals Limited, today in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In a statement by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, the plant with production capacity for 1.5 million Metric Tons of Urea fertiliser is considered the world’s largest single-train Urea plant. According […]
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Komptu Idris have been called upon to intervene and bring to an end the menace of fake fertiliser sales and circulation in Yobe State by some unpatriotic citizens. Sparking to journalists in his office, the Yobe State chairman of Fertiliser Sales Association, Potiskum branch, Alhaji Ali Maitaki. According […]
“Agriculture funds” President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will sustain concrete measures to diversify the economy by devoting more resources to agriculture in the 2017 budget. Speaking to reporters in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend on the margins of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), President Buhari said African countries […]
Dr. Rufus Ebegba, Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), has urged Nigerians to always research information from credible sources in order to be adequately informed and prevent misinformation. Dr. Ebegba said this while enlightening some staff and students of the Environmental Health Sciences department of Kwara State University, who paid an educational visit to […]