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Cattle rustlers have killed four people in Niger State, leaving several others injured and no fewer than 700 cattle and unspecified numbers of goats stolen. The incidence took place in Gbaka village, Shiroro Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the rustlers used guns, cutlasses, bows and arrows. They were said to […]
Key stakeholders at the ongoing 2nd Daily Trust Agriculture Conference and Expo are of the opinion that the present budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector by the federal government can not address the many challenges facing the sector. Those who spoke at the confab’s interactive session particularly frowned at the 2017 budgetary allocation, which they […]
The president of the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), Dr. Victor Iyama, has attributed the continued decline in cocoa production in Nigeria to the long period it takes to mature as well as impatience among Nigerian youth, who are expected to embrace its production. Iyama, who spoke in Abuja, yesterday, at the […]
Dried fruits and vegetables are a strange though very lucrative business that is slowly gaining ground in Nigeria. Blossom Natural Food Industries is solely engaged in the selling of dried fruits and vegetables. The fruits and vegetables showcased include pawpaw, pineapple, apple, lemon, orange, mango, banana and many more. According to the representative of Blossom […]
Fiyah Global Concept Ltd, one of the major sponsors of the ongoing Daily Trust Agric Conference says the its products and services will help farmers achieve great success in agribusiness. The company is an agribusiness group which is exclusively devoted to the Nigerian agricultural and food sectors. The managing director of the company, Ramesh Ghadge, […]
Former Head of State, retired General Abdulsalami Abubakar, the King of Brass in Rivers State, Chief Alfred Diete-Spiff and the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, have identified absence of infrastructural facilities, effective insurance packages, access to finance and absence of quality inputs and ready markets as some of the problems confronting […]
Southwest states are promoting food production. One area governments in the region are working on is improvement of the poultry and fisheries’sectors’ capacities to ensure food sufficiency. The private sector is partnering the states to increase productivity, DANIEL ESSIET reports. With an average yearly economic growth rate of more than five per cent, the Southwest […]
Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has said the unemployment rate in the state will reduce next year as no fewer than 10,000 workers will be engaged at the Niger State Rice Mill. He spoke at the inauguration of the multi-million dollar Integrated Rice Processing and Milling Complex built by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) […]
The Technical committee on Herdsmen/Farmers conflicts in Nigeria, on Wednesday charged the Federal Government to apply creativity towards addressing the recurrent conflict plaquing the country, instead of wishing such sensitive issues away. Chairman, Technical Committee to the government on the way forward on Herdsmen/Farmers conflicts, Prof Oshita Oshita, gave the charge during a capacity building […]
The King of Brass and first Governor of Rivers State, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, has said that Nigeria can make billions of dollars from mushroom cultivation. He stated this yesterday in Abuja at the opening ceremony of the 2nd Daily Trust Agricultural Conference and Exhibition organised in partnership with Fihah Global Concept Ltd, Federal Ministry of […]
One of the equipment exhibited in the ongoing Daily Trust Agric Conference is the power tiller machine, by Habgito Nig. Ltd Lagos, which caught the attention of many small and medium scale farmers. Mr. Unula Nwuche, the Executive Officer of the company, said that the power tiller provides solution to many farmers in the country, […]
Animal Care, one of the largest agro-allied industries in the livestock subsector in Nigeria has introduced a new boiled egg technology which prolongs the shelf-life of boiled egg for more than one month. According to the company representative at the exhibition, Mr. Shola, “this is actually the boiled egg and coloured. It is coloured like […]
Asaju Energy Limited excited farmers and processors at the event with the exhibition of the prototype of the new technology that will solve many problems of the farmers and enhance their capacity to be productive. Patrick Aighemie who represented the company at the exhibition arena said the technology was developed by the technology centre, Europe. […]
The federal government in collaboration with the Lake Chad Basin Commission has begun a move aimed at preventing Lake Chad from drying up. As part of the moves, the commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the POWERCHINA International Group Limited to actualize the transfer of water from the Congo Basin to Lake […]
Pro-organic agriculture experts and other stakeholders at a recently concluded summit in Abuja have unanimously appointed Dr. (Mrs.) Sarah Jubril, who was Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Ethics and Values, to lead ten others in drafting a well-articulated bill on organic agriculture to be presented to the National Assembly for passage. The […]