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The International Fund for Agriculture (IFAD) has distributed 100 Motorcycles and 18-Seater-Bus to the Kebbi Government, to facilitate Community-Based Agricultural Rural Development (CBARD) in the state. Alhaji Lawal Idah, the National Programme Coordinator of Climate Change Adaptation and Agribusiness Support Programme (CASP), presented the vehicles to the Kebbi Governor, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu in Birnin Kebbi […]
With the slump in oil prices and a slash in revenue inflows, Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is desperately in need of other revenue sources. Palm oil may be one of the answers. About 80% of current global palm oil production is consumed as edible oils, used in noodles, ice cream, and margarine, to […]
Rain water harvesting is one of the most effective methods of water management and water conservation. It involves collection and storage of rain water at surface or in sub-surface aquifers, before it is lost as surface run off. Water collected could be used for domestic needs, livestock, agroforestry and small-scale farming in order to overcome […]
A member of the Executive Working Group of the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation, Mr Innocent Azih, in this interview speaks on the new Agriculture Promotion Policy and how policy-enabling interventions by government can help ameliorate the challenges faced by small-scale farmers. The federal government’s restriction on rice importation last year was intended to protect […]
Some farmers in Maiduguri have expressed optimism of recording bumper harvests in the 2017 cropping season. They also commended the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for supporting displaced farmers to return to their farms. Thousands of displaced farmers supported by FAO cultivated their farmlands in Maiduguri and other liberated communities. FAO in collaboration with implementing […]
To ensure steady increase in food production, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has called on parents to encourage their children to be involved in agriculture. Governor Okowa made the call Wednesday at the official flag-off of harvest cum sales of fish of the Mega Fish Farmers Cooperative Union at the Okelle Farms, Ugbisi, […]
As part of efforts to improve capacity of its staff to regulate the application of modern biotechnology in the country, the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), today began a three-day risk assessment and risk management training for scientific officers of the Agency. NBMA Director General/CEO, Dr Rufus Ebegba, while opening the training in Abuja,said that […]
TVC News Correspondent, Lara Afolayan has emerged best reporter TV Broadcast category, in the Open Forum on Agriculture Biotechnology Awards (OFAB Awards). Afolayan also beat the best reporters in Radio and the print category to emerge overall best science reporter. The award which was given at the The Open Forum on Agriculture Biotechnology, Nigeria chapter, […]
In spite of the rampaging armyworm in farms, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says there is no threat of food insufficiency in Nigeria. He said on Tuesday at the Capacity Building Training for ECOWAS member states, organised on how to control and manage armyworm outbreak in West Africa. The training […]
Nigeria has been chosen as one of the priority countries to benefit from the US $280 million Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa (PIATA) launched today at the 2017 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire. The multi-million dollar partnership put together by the Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation […]
The Federal Government has been called upon to promulgate government agricultural policies that will direct all tiers of government, including the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to promote agricultural anchor groups throughout the country. This call was made by the executive chairman, Bemola Group, Dr Olukorede Odeniyi, while delivering a lecture titled “Eradicating hunger and […]
Ahead of the 2017 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, wants greater attention paid to the implementation of concrete plans for achieving the green revolution in Africa. The seventh African Green Revolution Forum, taking place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from September 4-8, 2017, will focus on […]
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has declared that henceforth undergraduates of agric institutions must first among other things, show their farms before they are allowed to graduate. The universities of agriculture were statutorily established for agricultural development, and were supposed to be under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture. However, […]
Agriculture stakeholders have committed to work together in tackling post-harvest losses affecting vegetable and fruit production. The stakeholders made the commitment during the 8th USAID/Rwanda Marketplace for Nutritious Foods Community of Practice Meeting in Kigali last week. Epimaque Nsanzabaganwa, horticulture division manager at National Agriculture Exports Development Board (NAEB), cited tomatoes, where between 30 and […]
The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, is currently in Indonesia to deepen his administration’s partnership with the Asian country, in a bid to revamp the agricultural sector and reposition the state as the oil palm capital of Nigeria. Speaking at the 101-year-old Indonesian Oil Palm Research Institute in Medan, Indonesia, Obaseki said his […]