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The Rwandan Government has launched the new African Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES), which is hosted in-country by the University of Rwanda University of Rwanda site designated for ACES. (Image source: University of Birmingham) At the opening meeting, a high-level cross-departmental team was set up to lead the centre’s development. […]
The US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and the IKEA Foundation have announced a joint US$30mn commitment to Aceli Africa, an innovative programme that incentivises banks to lend to agribusinesses Through Aceli Africa, banks will provide loans to small and medium-sized agribusinesses. (Image source: Bruno /Germany/Pixabay) With this […]
[ad_1] The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Nanono, Monday, disclosed Federal Government registering 5 million farmers for fertilizer subsidy support. Nanono made this known at the Consultative Meeting of National Stakeholders on Restructuring of the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative in Abuja. According to him, government has put in place several intervention programmes geared towards […]
[ad_1] The farmers on Tuesday took their hoes to the museum at the Cyprian Ekwensi Centre for Art and Culture in Abuja. Members of the Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON), have dramatically taken their hoes to a museum in order to make way for mechanised farming in the country. The farmers on […]
[ad_1] The farmers are demanding a rollback of three laws relating to the farming sector that were passed by parliament in September. Roads, transport services and markets were closed in some parts of India on Tuesday in response to a strike called by farmers protesting against new farming laws. The impact of the strike, which […]
[ad_1] Nigeria officially signed the Biosafety Bill into law in 2015, making it eligible to join the league of nations already using genetic engineering (GE) to boost food production. Some lawyers have spotted several gaps in Nigeria’s biosafety act (amended), explaining the dangers it poses to the country’s food economy. The lawyers also advised experts […]
Pan-African private equity investment manager EXEO Capital has announced an investment by its Food and Agribusiness Fund, Agri-Vie Fund II, in Glacier Products Limited – a Kenyan brand of ice cream and chocolate, ‘Dairyland’ Paul Nguru of EXEO and Sunil Shah of Glacier. (Image source: EXEO) Investment is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected […]
AB Vista has welcomed the publication of a new peer-reviewed research paper: ‘Stimbiotic supplementation improved performance and reduced inflammatory response via stimulating fibre fermenting microbiome in weaner pigs housed in a poor sanitary environment and fed an antibiotic-free low zinc oxide diet’ The study results indicate that the stimbiotic shifted the intestinal microbiome to favour […]
[ad_1] Dr Sabo Yahaya, Special Adviser/Policy Coordinator to the Minister of Agriculture, Ahaji Sambo Nanono (left), presenting an award to Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun in Abuja Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, bagged the Governor of the Year Award at the Nigeria Agriculture Awards 2020, held at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Abuja last […]
[ad_1] Fifteen persons have emerged winners in the farm investment empowerment done by leading agricultural hub, FarmHub.com. The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of FarmHubng.com Engr. Orok Edem Orok, in the mood of festive season’s celebration, announced the giveaway contest on micro-blogging site, twitter on Thursday, 3rd December 2020. The CEO said fifteen (15) farm investment […]
[ad_1] The number of countries planting biotech crops on the continent has grown from three in 2018 to six in 2019. Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Malawi are now part of the African countries planting Genetically Modified (GM) crops, alongside South Africa, Sudan and Swaziland, according to a report by the International Service for the Acquisition of […]
[ad_1] The Presidential Fertiliser Initiative aims to increase the access of Nigerian farmers to NPK fertiliser The federal government on Monday announced that it has registered five million farmers and their farms for fertiliser subsidy through the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI). The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, disclosed it at a meeting […]
[ad_1] ABUJA- Food Growers Association of Nigeria (FOGAN) on Monday announced that it would embark on the construction of silo complexes in 774 Local Government Areas as part of measures to preserve the farm produce of its members across the country. National President of FOGAN, Mr. Joseph Owolabi, who announced this in Abuja at the […]
[ad_1] ABUJA – The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) said it would engage about 400 youths in its 300 hectares of farmland in Gombe State under its National Young Farmers Scheme. Prince Paul Ikonne, Executive Secretary of NALDA, who announced this at the weekend in Gombe State during his visit to the farmland, said […]
[ad_1] STATES in the South have not been proactive in terms of food production, which is evident in their collective neglect of agriculture. This was one of the fallouts of our general dependence on the monthly federal allocations from Abuja since the rise of our crude oil-dependent economy. While Northern states continued to strengthen their […]