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As the pressure continue mounting on the future of tobacco following the growing ant-smoking campaign at global level that has led to declining revenues to farmers, most of Malawi’s tobacco growers, as a survival mechanism, are now slowly abandoning growing of the crop in favor of other crops such as soya beans, sorghum, and groundnuts. […]
A Sustainable Development Goal SDG’s Fund joint programme tagged Food Africa has begun the process of revamping the nation’s food sector with training of farmers in Kaduna State as a pilot stage. Food Africa is being jointly implemented by the Food Agricultural Organisation (FAO), International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Trade Centre (ICT), Sahara Foundation […]
The European Union (EU) has injected $7 million towards the revitalization of the country’s agricultural sector whose yields have been declining since the turn of the millennium. Since 2000 when President Robert Mugabe’s administration embarked on the land reform programme which saw the violent seizure of farms from white commercial farmers without compensation, Zimbabwe’s food […]
A number of incoming governors are taking steps to revive the once rosy pyrethrum sector even as more firms seek the regulator’s permit to set up operations in Kenya. Leading are Nakuru and Nyandarua, whose governments pledge to encourage more farmers to go back to the crop. Nyandarua governor Francis Kimemia has assured investors that […]
As Nigeria inches towards self sufficiency in rice production, rice farmers and miller’s have said the cost of rice will crash to as low as N6000 -N7000 soon. This was revealed to Journalists when members of the Association led by the Chairman Rice Processors Association, Alh. Mohammed Abubakar and President Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria(RIFAN) […]
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has said the invaluable health benefit of the Nigeria home grown rice cannot be overemphasized which contains all the vital food nutrient that our body requires to stay healthy and strong. He said comparatively the foreign rice are of far lower quality to […]
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s promised Tuesday to improve the pay and working conditions of laborers hired by the farms that provide milk for the Vermont-based company’s quirky flavors while promising to pay the farmers who employ the workers more. The “Milk with Dignity” agreement was signed by Ben & Jerry’s CEO Jostein Solheim […]
Sahara group, The Roca Brothers, Kaduna State Government and UN System in partnership commenced the implementation of ”FOOD AFRICA” Model Project in Kaduna, a programme to promote innovative PPPs for strengthened agro-food value chains, youth employment and food security & nutrition in Nigeria and Africa. First training session for farmers on site in Jere, Kaduna, […]
On-farm demonstrations in Ogun state, Nigeria under the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) managed Cassava Weed Management Project (CWMP) have produced average yields of 27 tons per hectare surpassing the national average of about 8 tons/ha. The demos were conducted in 2016 in the three senatorial districts of Ogun states using an integrated weed […]
The United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassadors yesterday began the training of 50 farmers in Kaduna State Under the Sustainable Development Goals Fund(SDGF). Speaking at a briefing with Journalists in Abuja yesterday, UN resident/ Humanitarian Coordinator, Edward Kallon said the Goodwill Ambassadors( the Roca Brothers) who are acclaimed master chefs are passionate advocates for Food […]
In Zimbabwe, researchers say they are breeding maize that is drought and heat resistant as part of efforts to fight hunger across Africa, where maize is a staple food. In Hezekaya Village in Gokwe, about 200 kilometers west of Harare, cotton is what most people plant because it can grow in hot, dry weather. But […]
The Federal Government says despite the “revolution” witnessed in the agricultural sector, the cost of food items is still high because of infrastructural deficit and export demands. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this on Tuesday when he featured on Africa Independent Television (AIT’s) Current Affairs programme “Focus Nigeria”. “Despite the fact […]
At least 10,000 contractors are bidding for different contracts in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development this year, the minister, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said. Ogbeh made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. The minister frowned at the increasing number of contract bids, […]
The Presidential Fertiliser Initiative of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has created about 120,000 jobs within 10 months. Thomas Etuh, a member of the PFI, made this known while speaking with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday. Etuh, who is also the President of the Fertilisers Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria, said that about 8.5 million […]
Lagos State Government has restated its commitment to boost food security in the State just as it said that various agricultural initiative programmes aimed at making the State a food secured place have been developed through profitable investments in the agricultural value chains. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau who disclosed this on […]