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[ad_1] Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Friday launched a 10-year Agricultural Transformation Plan, which is designed to ensure food security, generate employment opportunities, and reduce poverty rate. The plan is hinged in six pillars of crop production, finance, livestock, access to market, value chain, and cross-cutting programmes, the Governor said at the launch of […]
[ad_1] The Kwara Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Friday, in Ilorin, launched a 10-year Agricultural Transformation Plan, designed to make Kwara food sufficient by 2030. “The essence of this document is to ensure food security, attract investments to the sector, create jobs, reduce poverty, and create inclusive growth by giving equal opportunities for women and […]
[ad_1] The Nigeria Agribusiness Register (NAR) said it would partner National Shea Products Association of Nigeria (NASPAN) to trade shea butter as commodity exchange for the Nation’s economic benefit. Its founder, Mr. Roland Oroh, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Friday in Abuja while discussing the benefits of trading […]
[ad_1] Food availability, sufficiency and affordability will continue to be a mirage as long as banditry and attacks on farmers continue, the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology has declared. Its chairman, Mr. Sunday Bamgbose, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos that no nation could boast of sufficiency if […]
[ad_1] A Non-Governmental organization (NGO), Developmental Association for Renewable Energies (DARE), has introduced the first Solar-Bubble-dryer (SBD) for Nigerian farmers, to enable them reduce post harvest losses, the Director of the NGO announced. Engr. Yahaya Ahmed, the director, told journalists on Thursday, in Kaduna, that the machine was specifically developed, to help the farmers curb […]
[ad_1] Food is a necessity because it is necessary for the growth and maintenance of the human body. The benefits humans receive from food cannot be replicated by nutritional supplements. The proper foods provide calcium to build and strengthen bones, protein and iron for muscle maintenance and other nutrients that allow the optimal functioning of […]
[ad_1] Cocoa farmers in Nigeria are counting their losses as the price of the commodity continues to plummet due to the second wave of COVID-19, which has been ravaging many consuming countries, especially Europe and America recently. The farmers lamented that the cost of inputs is going up while the price of cocoa is dropping […]
[ad_1] Nigeria officially banned the importation of rice two years ago, to improve the local production of rice. As Nigeria plans to increase the production of rice, 20 seed companies benefited from rice seed distribution by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural (FMARD) across the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory […]
[ad_1] In this interview with the Executive Provost, Federal College of Animal Health & Production Technology, Moore Plantation, Ibadan, Dr Olatunde Owosibo, speaks on challenges faced by livestock farmers, how youths can be attracted to agriculture and why irrigation facilities and other farm infrastructure should be emplaced by state governments. FEMI IBIROGBA reports. The livestock […]
[ad_1] A post-harvest technology manufacturing company based in Germany, Reila, has identified Nasarawa State as a location for establishing an assembly plant in Nigeria. READ MORE: Nigeria, Germany Sign Pact On Agriculture, Commerce German agro firm to establish assembly plant in Nasarawa Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, disclosed this shortly after a demonstration by the firm […]
[ad_1] Farmers in Enugu State, under All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), have commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for his administration’s efforts in the agricultural sector, especially in ensuring food security in the state in spite of the daunting challenges posed by COVID-19. The farmers expressed delight at the support of the administration in the sector, […]
[ad_1] “Once swarms arrive in favourable areas, they will mature and lay eggs that will hatch and cause hopper bands to form, during February and March.” The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has alerted that swarms of desert locust are migrating and reaching new parts of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania. According to the FAO, […]
The World Bank plans to invest more than US$5bn over the next five years to help restore degraded landscapes, improve agriculture productivity, and promote livelihoods across 11 African countries on a swathe of land stretching from Senegal to Djibouti The more than US$5bn in financing will support agriculture, biodiversity, community development, food security, etc. (Image […]
Research presented by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has shown that if broilers have to forage and peck the larvae, they move more, which improves their welfare Broilers fed live fly larvae show more natural behaviour and develop healthier legs. (Image source: Adobe Stock) During the research, live black soldier fly larvae were offered in […]
[ad_1] The survey was carried out in seven states. About 79 per cent of Nigerian farmers were estimated to have been affected by the ravaging effects of drought and flooding in 2020, a survey conducted in seven states of the country has shown. The analysis by SBMIntel, an Africa focused research firm, revealed that the […]