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NIRSAL: The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) is advocating for a single digit break-even interest rate to borrowers in the agricultural and agribusiness sector of the economy, as ways of increasing funding to the sector to improve agribusiness value chain.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 59 million children in Africa are stunted while another 10 million are overweight.
President Donald J. Trump has named Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum as chairman of the Board for International Food and Agriculture Development.
The value of horticulture production rose 41 per cent last year compared with 2017 on account of good prices. Market data from the Horticulture Department indicates overall sales rose from Sh216 billion in 2016 to Sh305 billion last year.
Agribusiness: Corporate farmers International (CFI) during the week launched an agriculture innovative platform to create a wider and larger platform for the agribusiness industry. According to Akin Alabi, Managing Partner of CFI in a chat with newsmen in Lagos disclosed that the mobile App is a 24 hours agribusiness radio called ‘agrotainment radio which is […]
Farm mechanisation: The Federal Government has affirmed that efforts are been made to modernise the agricultural sector through farm mechanisation and use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to target and encourage youth participation in agriculture.
Livestock: The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has called on livestock owners in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to take advantage of the ongoing mass vaccination and treatment exercise, for livestock in FCT, and bring their cattle, goats and sheep for vaccination.
Cassava Production: Africa needs to double her cassava production to avert a major food crisis by 2050, says the Director for the Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21), Dr. Claude Fauquet in Lagos.
NBMA: The Chairman and board members of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) have assured staff of the preparedness of the board to work with the agency to ensure that it attains its mandate.
As an interim measure to forestall further killings and destruction of farmlands by suspected herdsmen, Governor Godwin Obaseki yesterday announced the banning of grazing of any sort in the vast forests and farmlands around Odighi, Owan, Odigwete communities in Ovia North East local council area.
Armyworm: Cereals growers in North Rift region, the country’s grain basket, are staring at heavy losses due to the re-emergence of the Fall armyworm.
A seminar on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) which aimed to bring stakeholders together to discuss issues surrounding GMOs has taken place in Accra.
Farmcrowdy: Technological changes have been the major driving force for increasing agricultural productivity and development around the world.
Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) in Oyo State says it has received farm inputs worth N17.8 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the Bank of Agriculture (BOA).
The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) has signed a $200 million Soft Commodity Finance Facility agreement with the Export Trading Group.