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A bill for an Act for the establishment of National Tea and Coffee Development Council to develop commercial cultivation of the produce in the country has passed second reading in Senate. The Bill was first read in the Upper Chamber in April, 2017 and it seeks to enhance growth, production and marketing of tea and […]
In an effort geared towards increasing access to ‘LAKE Rice’ and ensure effective distribution of the rice across the State, the Lagos State Government has added two more centres to the already existing designated centres where residents can get the product, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau has said. Suarau, who stated this over […]
The Kano State Branch of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) says it has donated food items and clothes to the orphanage home at Tudun Maliki in Kumbotso Local Government area of the state. The NSE Chairman in Kano, Mr Rabiu Haruna, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Friday. He […]
By Adeyemi Bamidele Ezekiel HarvestPlus is partnering with the Enugu State SME center to host the third edition of its annual Nutritious Food Fair (NFF). This event is scheduled to take place at the Michael Okpara Square in Enugu on 28—30 November, 2017. NFF 2017 will among other objectives facilitate at least 3000 jobs […]
Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar is the Chairman of Umza International Farms in Kano, the farm which at moment concentrates mainly on milling hundreds of bags of paddy rice per day. In this interview, he explains how rice smuggling into the country will kill the nation’s rice industry if not urgently curtailed. On our way to your […]
The battle to get Genetically Modified (GMO) crops to Nigeria now assumes new dimension with some civil society groups going to court in a bid to frustrate the adoption of GM crops in Nigeria. Seventeen non-governmental organizations have dragged the Federal Government before an Abuja Federal High Court, over permits issued by the National Biosafety […]
The Abia State Government has formally sworn in a project management team of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Accelerated Agricultural scheme, as part of efforts to boost food production and provide 10,000 jobs for Abia youths. The team has the commissioner of Agriculture as the chairman, with the Programme Director of the Agriculture Development […]
The House of Representatives is targeting 5,000 direct and indirect jobs with the establishment of farm settlements across the country. The lawmakers are also seeking to raise funding from 10-20 percent for Agriculture from the Ecological Fund. Its Committee on Agricultural Services has also begun additional legislative work on a bill “for an Act to […]
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the National Programme for Food Security (NPFS) and other donor agencies foresees food crises in 2018 in seventeen states. The FG said the report is aimed at helping the government take necessary steps to combating the foreseen food crisis and emergency situation in the […]
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) have appealed to the government at all levels to increase humanitarian interventions in the North East by supporting agricultural production. They made call in Abuja on Friday via recommendations at a stakeholders meeting to examine the results of the Cadre Harmonise analysis of food […]
In a bid to boost agricultural production,Ghana and Hungary have signed a Partnership. The Ambassador of Hungary to Ghana, András Szabó, addressing participants at the first Ghanaian-Hungarian Agriculture Forum in Accra, said the future of the sector depend on innovations,technologies and research. Szabó said his team will explore the Agriculture sector for collaboration with Ghana’s […]
Eighteen bio-fortified varieties comprising six vitamin A cassava, eight vitamin A maize, two orange sweet potato and two iron and zinc sorghum, which are bred conventionally, have been released officially in Nigeria. Paul Ilona, the Country Manager of Harvestplus, an international agricultural organisation, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria […]
Agricultural practices have evolved a great deal throughout the ages. Modern agriculture worldwide has seen an impressive increase in production and yield. As a result, we have more affordable food, fiber, feed, and in recent times biofuel crops like cassava and agricultural products for exportation (at least in some parts of the world). However, the […]
by Onyimba Chiamaka Agriculture has become the saving grace of Nigeria’s economic misfortune, but to achieve great value in this sector, we must fully develop the agriculture value chain. Farming alone cannot do the magic; we must diversify into agro industries like processing plants, transportation, packaging and logistics to create more economic value and more […]
Eight thousand fingerlings were stocked Tuesday in 17 tanks based in Tchimanha cooperative in Cacongo municipality’s Mpuela locality, northern Cabinda province, to promote aquaculture in rural community. The Project is jointly sponsored by Cabinda Port Company, Ministry of Fisheries and Banco Sol. During the ceremony, the CEO of Cabinda Port Company, Manuel Nazareth Neto, also […]