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The Acting Director, Federal Department of Animal Husbandry Services, Dr John Toyin Taiwo, on Thursday said that currently, agriculture contributes 24.18 per cent to the nation’s economy while the livestock subsector accounts for 12 per cent. Dr Taiwo disclosed this during consultative stakeholders’ meeting of the Vet-Gov Pilot Project in collaboration with the African Union […]
Loremm Integrated Farms, one of the large poultry farms at the outskirts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), is just about 10 months old but the investment is huge. Its first batch of birds came in August last year – they are five months old and egg production has begun in earnest with 60% […]
Butchers Association in Anambra State has expressed worry over absence of cattle market and functional abattoirs in the state. It said lack of the facilities has negatively affected the prices of cow meat as people could not bring in cows to the state in large quantities. The president of the association, Chief Felix Ononenyi-Ikenga, who […]
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has said probably more than any other disease affecting both livestock and people, Trypanosomosis threatens human and livestock health and agricultural production and, thereby, rural development and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa. In a statement to Leadership,it states that the disease, transmitted mainly by tsetse flies, is prevalent in […]
Dr Isa Salihu, Adamawa Commissioner for Livestock Development, confirmed that the state government in collaboration with the Federal Government aims to vaccinate about four million cattle. Salihu, who made this known in an interview in Yola on Monday,said the development follows the outbreak of contagious ‘Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP)’ disease late last year in some cattle’s […]
Experts at the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) Ibadan, have explored the many benefits of mushrooms and its cultivation, saying it contributes to human livelihood economically, nutritionally and medicinally. The experts highlighted the importance of mushrooms in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the Oyo State capital. A Botanist, Dr Olufunmi […]
The over 33-year-old dream of Ondo State to have a modern abattoir became a reality recently with the inauguration of a N528 million semi-mechanised facility in Akure. It is an established fact that meat is a disease conveying agent and consumption of meat processed under unhygienic condition is responsible for certain diseases being suffered by […]
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has pleaded with the Federal Government to review the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) foreign exchange policy, which placed ban on importers of 41 items from accessing the forex market. Speaking in Lagos, MAN President Dr. Frank Udemba Jacobs said some of the items that were restricted from accessing […]
The former Registrar, Veterinary Council of Nigeria, VCN, Dr Markus Avong, has called on the Federal Government to licence animal vaccine importers over possible inflow of fake and adulterated products into the livestock industry. Avong said the livestock industry remains strategic in diversifying the economy. According to him some unscrupulous persons may be involved in […]
COLLINS NNABUIFE sopke with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on the efforts by the government to import 500 reaper machines to help ease the burden of rice and wheat harvesting in Nigeria. His report Nigeria’s agriculture currently is the largest employer of labour in the country, constituting about 70 per cent of the […]
The Harare City Council on Wednesday issued a 48-hour ultimatum for all illegal food vendors in the city to stop operations on a typhoid outbreak that has claimed two lives so far. The move by the local authority follows a typhoid outbreak that has been raging since late December 2016, with more than 300 suspected […]
This doesn’t appear to be the best of time for stakeholders in the Sorghum industry, as lack of stability in government policy has pushed the sub-sector to the brink of collapse. Also, unjust import tariff system has not helped the situation. The development has left local investors at the mercy of importers who bring in […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh on Monday, drew the attention of Nigerians to the fake imported honey from China, adding that most of them were produced with sugar syrup which poses danger to human health. Ogbeh disclosed this while receiving delegation of Nigeria Apiculture Platform (NAP), who won the hosting […]
Stakeholders including academia, research experts, financial institutions, soil scientists and credit providers on Wednesday held a Stakeholders Consultative Meeting to improve the livelihood of farmers in the country. The meeting, which was organised by Nigeria Soil Health Consortium (South) in conjunction with Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), […]
Chicken consumers in Asaba on Sunday expressed displeasure over the hike in charges for processing the commodity by butchers. A survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Abraka Market revealed that the price for processing one chicken had gone up from N100 to N200. Mrs Cynthia Uchenna, a resident, said that […]