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Prof. Benjamin Ubi, the President, Biotechnology Society of Nigeria (BSN), has identified food insecurity as an underlining cause of some of the greatest challenges in the country. Ubi, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja, added that biotechnology would ensure adequate food security in the […]
Small-scale farmers in Africa now have enough reasons to smile; with the invention of Gasoline powered simple weeders, adapted for clearing in cassava farms, to reduce the burden of weeding. Initially acquired as tillers, the simple tools are being modified and adapted as weeders by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) led Cassava Weed […]
Despite the decline in the nation’s GDP, the Agricultural sector recorded positive growth above 4% in 2016. What are the factors behind this growth? We can say that compared to previous years, 2016 was a good year for agriculture in terms of harvest and necessary policy support. The bumper harvest recorded in 2016 accounted for […]
As part of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation-UNIDO-EU-FGN Food Safety Capacity Building Programme for Nigeria, the first Nigerian Food Safety And Investment Forum has been billed to hold between February 7-8, 2017 at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. According to a statement signed by UNIDO Representative & Director Regional Office, Abuja, […]
The Dangote Tomato Processing Factory, Kadawa, Kano State, has begun survey of tomato farms in six major tomato producing states to ascertain the level of availability of the commodity. The company’s Managing Director, Alhaji Abdulkarim Kaita, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview on friday in Kano. Kaita said the […]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday met behind closed doors with members of the Presidential Task Force on the rising cost of food items in Nigeria. The meeting, which took place at Aguda House, the official residence of the acting president, was attended by all members of the group. The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday […]
The Acting Director, Federal Department of Animal Husbandry Services, Dr John Toyin Taiwo, on Thursday said that currently, agriculture contributes 24.18 per cent to the nation’s economy while the livestock subsector accounts for 12 per cent. Dr Taiwo disclosed this during consultative stakeholders’ meeting of the Vet-Gov Pilot Project in collaboration with the African Union […]
Tomato farmers in Dantankari, Katsina State, say they have gotten a remedy for the dreaded tomato disease known as tuta absoluta, locally known as ‘ tomato ebola ’ that ravaged farms in the state and many others in the last two irrigation seasons. Daily Trust had in June 2015 reported how tomato production in the […]
Loremm Integrated Farms, one of the large poultry farms at the outskirts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), is just about 10 months old but the investment is huge. Its first batch of birds came in August last year – they are five months old and egg production has begun in earnest with 60% […]
Dr. Manzo Daniel Maigari is the Kaduna State Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development. In this interview in Kaduna recently, he highlighted some of the challenges and achievements of the federal government-initiated Anchor Borrowers Programme in the state. Excerpts: How compliant have the farmers been in remitting farm produce in the anchor programme? Farmers have […]
Butchers Association in Anambra State has expressed worry over absence of cattle market and functional abattoirs in the state. It said lack of the facilities has negatively affected the prices of cow meat as people could not bring in cows to the state in large quantities. The president of the association, Chief Felix Ononenyi-Ikenga, who […]
About 102, 000 irrigation farmers in Zamfara are to receive fertiliser and other inputs at subsidised rates under the Federal Government’s 2017 dry season Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS). Alhaji Musa Raji, the Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture in the state, disclosed this in Talata-Mafara while receiving the House of Representatives’ Committee on Agriculture, who […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Aba Main Market, Abia State. Garri (White) 100Kg 19,833 Paint Bucket 643 222 21,000 680 -1167 -37 Groundnut (Edible) 100Kg 48,000 Paint Bucket 1,500 490 48,000 1,500 0 0 Maize (White) 100Kg […]
A lawmaker, Mr Hilary Bisong, has appealed to the three tiers of government to give priority to the agricultural sector to ensure food security in the country. Bisong, PDP, representing Boki II state constituency in the Cross River House of Assembly, made the appeal in Calabar. He said that according priority to the agricultural sector […]
The Governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, has received a warm applause for being forthright on the implementation of policies designed to revamp the agriculture sector in the state. The praise was coming from members of the Osun state chapter of Cassava Growers Association of Nigeria, while they presented their position paper to the State House” […]