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TSRgrow, one of the leading horticulture solutions providers, has announced Lighting as a Platform (LaaP), a revolutionary technology that delivers unparalleled results to indoor growers, while significantly reducing up-front and long-term operating costs LaaP eliminates local ballast equipment on each fixture from the growing area. (Image source: corepics/Adobe Stock) LaaP brings together TSRgrow’s solutions for […]
[ad_1] Raises $50 Million to Finance Agri-SMEs in Nigeria AFEX Commodities Exchange Limited (AFEX), Nigeria’s leading private commodities exchange company, has announced the first Warehouse Receipt Backed Commercial Paper in Africa, with tech-enabled operations and a 24-hour fast cash turnaround for borrowers. With over $50 million raised for Agri-SMEs, this bridges the funding gap between […]
[ad_1] . ABEOKUTA – Kano State Governor, Abdulahi Umar Ganduje, has called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take drastic steps in curbing foreign herders who are always armed with sophisticated weapons from making incursion into Nigeria. The Kano State governor made the call on Tuesday, while speaking at the Stakeholders’ […]
[ad_1] The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Tuesday, said the setting-up of a commission for pastoralism, regulated by law, could provide recipes for resolving protracted farmer-herder conflicts in the country. According to the AGF, simply addressing the farmer-herder crisis “from purely theoretical perspectives often devoid of reality […]
[ad_1] Ondo at 17.20 per cent , Abuja at 16.73 per cent and Bauchi at 16.37 per cent recorded the slowest price rise. Prices of food items rose the most in Kogi, Oyo, and River States in January, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released on Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has […]
For the 2021 season, the four-row self-propelled potato harvester VENTOR 4150 will be equipped with some new practical features Equipped for long and tough haulm in potato crops The VENTOR 4150 can now be optionally equipped with the HT 400 haulm topper, which is especially suitable for extremely high quantities of long, tough potato haulm. […]
[ad_1] ECONOMY The Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, (NIRSAL PLC) has facilitated over N148 billion in finance and investments for agriculture and agribusiness. Managing Director of the company, Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed, disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja. He said that NIRSAL, a wholly-owned corporation of the Central Bank […]
[ad_1] A stakeholders forum aimed at finding lasting solutions to the farmers /herders clashes in some parts of Ogun State would hold tomorrow (Tuesday) with some northern Governors in attendance. The State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun gave this indication while addressing indigenes of Oja Odan and Orile Igbooro, during his on-the-spot-assessment of the communities following, […]
[ad_1] Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka’s country home in the forest area of lbadan, Oyo state capital, has reportedly been invaded allegedly by herdsmen. Although the police has denied the invasion of Soyinka’s sanctuary, he has confirmed that the peace of his abode was indeed violated by herdsmen and their cattle herd, but he successfully repelled […]
Cows produce more than 4% of the global greenhouse gas emissions by releasing methane gas, which is more than twice as much emission as all the world’s airplanes Volta Factory 01 is a modular, land based production system for the feed supplement. (Image source: AFRY) Backed by more than six years of research from international […]
[ad_1] The National Fish Association of Nigeria (NFAN), on Sunday, in Abuja, appealed to the Federal Government to extend its intervention programmes to the fisheries sub-sector, to boost fish production in the country. The National Publicity Secretary of the association, Chief Chidike Ukoh, who made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of […]
[ad_1] Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has cautioned African countries not to allow agric-business and manufacturing sectors to degenerate in the face of COVID-19 pandemic. He observed that the two sectors were important areas which by and large have not been severely impacted upon by the disease. This was contained in this week’s issue […]
[ad_1] By Charly Agwam – Bauchi The Emir of Bauchi, Dr Rilwanu Suleiman Adamu has reacted to the current herders/farmers crisis in the nation, declaring that it is only divine intervention that can save the country from an impending danger. The Emir who was speaking in his Palace on Saturday called on Nigerians irrespective of […]
[ad_1] Meru Musa, 35, and mother-of-six, cultivates rice in the Federal Capital Territory. Meru Musa, 35, and mother-of-six, cultivates rice in the Federal Capital Territory. In this 14th episode of the series Women in Agriculture, she shares her experience with PREMIUM TIMES. PT: Can you tell us how long you have been cultivating? Ms Musa: […]
[ad_1] Chief Kamorudeen Okikiola is the President-General of Agbekoya Farmers Association. In this interview, he opines that marauding herdsmen perpetuating crime in the South-West have godfathers, who purchase arms and ammunition for them. He also states that his group will wade off every expansionist tendency of the killer herdsmen. He speaks on other burning issues […]