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Poultry products worth over N147 million illegally imported for the yuletide season have been impounded and destroyed by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operation Unit, Zone C, in Benin, Edo State. The products which were destroyed on Thursday in Benin included 16,422 cartons of imported frozen products. The Officer-in-Charge of the Benin […]
The Chief Executive Officer of Raymos Guana Farms, Mr Raymos Guana, says the decision of the Federal Government to ban rice importation is too hasty. Guana, a former Commissioner for Lands in Delta, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on Thursday. According to him, the quantity […]
An egg market analyst says the global outbreaks of avian influenza could give US egg producers a much needed price boost. Brian Moscogiuri with Urner Barry says when the US lost 11 percent of its egg production other countries stepped in to fill that market opportunity. “We actually saw the European market benefit with prices […]
Ogun State civil servants are to be allocated land for agricultural purposes. Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, stated this while speaking to reporters during the visit of the Presidential Task Force on Agricultural Commodities and Production led by Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Dakingari. Amosun said the government took the decision as a way to improve food production, […]
A rice breeder and a professor of Plant Breeding in the College of Plant Science and Crop Production of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Professor Francis Showemimo, has said that it is possible to stop rice importation to Nigeria but not in 2017. He said he supported the Federal Government initiative to stop […]
The smuggling of rice through the land borders has continued to thrive in Badagry area of Lagos State in spite of the Federal Government’s ban on the practice. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that markets along Badagry Expressway close to Seme border, are stocked with various varieties of smuggled rice, especially as the […]
The federal government will support potato farmers to achieve all year round production in order to reduce wheat flour importation in 2017, the minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has said. Dr Onu, who said this in Abuja when the executives of the Potato Farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN) paid him a visit […]
A scientist with the University of Saskatchewan says the provision of environmental enrichment has the potential to improve both the health and productivity of the pig, writes Bruce Cochrane. Canada’s revised Pig Code of Practice requires producers to start to consider the provision of environmental enrichment. Dr Yolande Seddon, an Assistant Professor in Swine Behavior […]
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were honored by the Ogun State Government for their work on agricultural transformation in the state and Africa. The state Governor, Senator Ibukunle Amosun presented plaques of honor to the three institutions during a courtesy visit […]
In order to free the Nigerian market from substandard products, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has destroyed substandard goods valued at over N500 million. Its Director General, Osita Aboloma, says the goods did not meet the required production standards. At the dump site in Lagos, Aboloma said the action was to serve as a […]
FG Allays Fear Of Possible Famine In The Country; Puts Mechanisms In Place To Achieve Food Security The Federal Government has allayed the fear in some quarters that the country would experience famine in 2017, assuring of sufficient mechanisms to achieve food security in the country. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh […]
The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted a 20ft container of “READY TO EAT FOODS’’ like Egusi Soup, Jollof Rice, Ogbono, Yam Porridge imported from India. The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Bashar Yusuf, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Lagos by the Public Relations […]
African Veterinary Association, AVA, has charged African governments to support livestock farming and animal rearing to attract the youth and the educated, for socio-economic development. The group gave this charge during its 6th congress themed: “Towards Economic Diversification And Sustainable Development in Africa” hosted by Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) in Enugu recently. African Veterinary […]
Hog markets have dropped to unprofitable levels for many producers this fall. “This is a challenging time for agriculture and especially for our producers,” says Jan Archer, National Pork Board (NPB) president and a pork producer from Goldsboro, North Carolina. “Our goal is to help producers during this time and provide consumers with a great […]
The Country Manager of Dizengoff Nigeria, Antti Ritvonen, has called on the government to review the import duty on some agricultural equipment especially the greenhouse equipment which is one of the trending agricultural technologies in the world. Ritvonen said greenhouse agricultural technology can help the country achieve its planned food sustainability and further create jobs […]