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[ad_1] Livestock Feed manufacturing refers to the process of producing animal feed from raw agricultural products. The Fodder produced by manufacturing is formulated to meet specific animal nutrition requirements for different species of animals at different life stages. Most livestock farmers have one major goal in mind, and that is raising healthy and fat livestock. […]
[ad_1] LAGOS – The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Ogun Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) farm is ready to churn out and sell its products to the market. Dr. Belinda Faniyi, the State Coordinator and the brain behind the farm at the Sagamu Orientation Camp, during a routine inspection of the farm, revealed that […]
Campbell’s Soup has sold its stake in Acre Venture Partners Fund I to private markets group StepStone in a secondary transaction. Campbell’s was the sole LP in the agrifoodtech fund, which includes investments in Farmers Business Network (FBN), Spoiler Alert, ImpactVision, and Evolve Biosystems. StepStone has also committed to investing in Acre’s second fund, which […]
[ad_1] The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Ogun chapter, has appealed to the Federal and State Governments to compensate Pig farmers, who lost their livestock due to the African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak.Its Secretary, Mr Ogunjimi Abiodun, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta on Thursday. […]
[ad_1] Nigerian government has launched the Agriculture for Food and Job Plan (AFJP), a component of the Nigeria Economic and Sustainability Plan (NESP). The plan is to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on farmers and the economy. This was disclosed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, during the official launch […]
[ad_1] The Defence Headquarters on Thursday disclosed that the Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity had captured 8 suspected armed bandits and recovered several rustled cattle during their separate operations within the North-West Geo-political zone of the country. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Acting Director, Defence Media […]
[ad_1] Nigeria’s southeastern Cross River state is setting up a 4-billion naira ($10-million) cocoa-processing plant to start operations in August and target the export market, an official said. Cross River, which accounts for about 30% of Nigeria’s output, has negotiated with chocolate companies based in Italy to receive supplies from the grinder, Peter Egba, the […]
Editor’s note: Slava Mazai is the CEO of OneSoil, a Belarus-based startup that develops an AI-powered precision farming platform and is a member of the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture hosted by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own, and don’t necessarily reflect those of AFN. […]
[ad_1] Just like other forms of farming, aqua or fish farming urgently requires the attention of stakeholders to save it from total collapse. Our agric editor who has been monitoring the sub-sector reports that the outbreak of the COVID-19 has further threatened fish farming activities across the country. The fear in the sector now is […]
[ad_1] Pig farmers in Ogun State have called on the state government to come to their aid towards mitigating the loss incurred following the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) which is currently ravaging the state. The farmers under the aegis of Ijebu North East Piggery Association who spoke to journalists on the outbreak of […]
The year 2019 was a breakout year for Latin American agrifoodtech and 2020 is already shaping up to beat those records, in spite of the global pandemic. Granted, Colombian on-demand delivery startup Rappi accounted for a significant portion of the $1.4 billion total raised by agrifoodtech startups in 2019 with its record-breaking $1 billion Series […]
[ad_1] The chairman of the presidential fertilizer initiative, Muhammad Badaru, on Tuesday, said farmers are facing difficulties in accessing fertilizer due to suspension of urea production. Mr Badaru, who is also the governor of Jigawa State, in a press conference in Dutse, said the distribution networks encountered challenges because the production of the major raw […]
[ad_1] The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Shehuri, Tuesday, disclosed that the Federal Government is considering farmers to own houses through their agricultural activities. Shehuri made the disclosure during the opening ceremony of the first virtual edition of the Abuja International Housing Show (AIHS), which is the 14th of its series. […]
UK agritech venture builder Roslin Technologies and Enterprise Singapore’s SEEDS Capital, an investment vehicle linked with the city-state’s government, have pumped $1.6 million into insect farming startup Protenga. Roslin Technologies is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute, famous for breeding Dolly the Sheep – the world’s first cloned mammal. Part of the Protenga […]
Agricultural imaging and analytics firm Taranis has raised $30 million in a Series C round co-led by Vertex Growth — an affiliate of Singapore sovereign fund Temasek — and Orion Fund, a subsidiary of Malaysian conglomerate, the Kuok Group. New backers joining the round included affiliates of two of the world’s largest semiconductor companies — […]