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The Executive Director, Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Dr. Olufemi Oladunni, has reiterated the determination of the institute to reduce youth mobility caused by poverty, through training that will create jobs and business opportunities for them in the agricultural sector and in the rural areas. Declaring open a workshop for farmers in Kaduna […]
This week, HarvestPlus was named one of four finalists for 100&Change, a competition for a single $100 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The global challenge seeks bold solutions to critical problems of our time. After careful consideration, the MacArthur Foundation’s Board of Directors remains convinced HarvestPlus’ work provides a […]
FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva has joined in calls for a renewed global commitment to zero tolerance for food loss and waste. The call was made at a high-level event at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly that focused on tackling food loss and waste as a pathway to achieving Sustainable Development […]
A diet that includes plenty of colorful vegetables and fruits may contain compounds that can stop colon cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases in pigs, according to an international team of researchers. Understanding how these compounds work on a molecular level could be an initial step toward finding treatments for people with cancer, they added. “What […]
The Project Director, Cassava Adding Value to Africa (CAVA), Prof Kola Adebayo, has urged member-states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to expedite action on the construction of the Lagos-Abidjan Highway to boost regional agriculture and food export. This followed a report that the tender for the feasibility study of the planned […]
Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, will from Monday, September 25, play host to rural women farmers from more than 15 countries on the continent. Delegates are expected from Ghana, Senegal, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Burundi and Rwanda. Other countries expected to attend are; Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Gambia, and Cameroun. ActionAid International is hosting the program […]
Taiwan has once again agreed to purchase a large share of U.S. wheat over the next two years, with most of it coming from Idaho, North Dakota and Montana. Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and Taiwanese milling industry officials signed the $576 million agreement Wednesday at the Idaho Capitol in Boise following similar agreements being […]
In his renewed effort to boot agriculture, The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi has notified the state’s House of Assembly of his plans to borrow N2.42 billion (£5 million) to purchase tractors for farming in the state. The governor made this known in a letter sent to the House at yesterday’s plenary and read by […]
China could import up to 20 million tonnes of corn a year, more than six times the current level, to meet a switch to greater use of ethanol in fuel, an analyst predicted on Thursday. Beijing plans to roll out a gasoline known as E10 – containing 10% ethanol – across the world’s largest car […]
All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Anambra State, Dr. Tony Nwoye, has hailed the state’s youths for supporting his candidacy. The politician pledged to reward their encouragement with youth empowerment policies. Among the policies for youth empowerment, Nwoye said, is to create at least 20,000 new jobs in the Agriculture sector. In a statement […]
Seventeen Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have taken the Federal Government to an Abuja Federal High Court over permits issued by the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) for genetically modified cotton and maize in the country. The groups in a statement by the Project Officer, Biosafety for Home of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Joyce Ebebeinwe, also asked […]
The Benue State House of Assembly yesterday set up a six-man Ad-hoc committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the difficulty being faced by farmers to access agricultural loans from the Bank of Agriculture. The House took the decision after a debate on a motion of urgent public importance moved by the Majority Leader, Benjamin Adanyi.He […]
Government has come up with a $20 million loan facility to benefit small scale tobacco growers and ensure auction floors remain functional. This follows realisation that the bulk of flue-cured tobacco was being grown under the contract system. Few farmers were now selling through auction floors. Addressing farmers at Howgate Farm in Murehwa yesterday, Agriculture, […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Brazil-Africa Institute (BAI) have launched the Youth Technical Training Program (YTTP) – an initiative that aims to train young African professionals in research and technology transfer, contributing to local capacity development. The YTTP initiative is sponsored under the South-South Cooperation Trust Fund (SSCTF) and will consists of an […]
Stricter quotas are failing as fishers turn to poaching to make a living. On weekends when the sun is shining and the wind isn’t gale force, the natural amphitheatre of rocks surrounding the Hawston harbour slipway is filled with locals quenching their thirst with beer, braaiing fish and sharing jokes. That was the scene this […]