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[ad_1] Plant it now and the journey of a 70-year harvest will start after four years. Considered the “tree of life,” it has the potential to help families remain strong financially for generations. The story of the collapse of oil palm production in Nigeria is linked to the discovery of crude oil which shifted the […]
[ad_1] The National President of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Kabir Ibrahim, has said that a decisive action must be taken on all the forests that provide safe haven for bandits, rustlers and insurgents in Katsina for the security crisis in the state to be checked. The farmers’ leader, who is from Faskari, […]
[ad_1] Prices of food items rose highest in Ebonyi, Bayelsa and Edo States in Nigeria in May, the consumer price index report released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown. The report revealed that on a month on month basis, food price inflation was highest in Ebonyi at 3.43 per cent, […]
[ad_1] Gombe – Reprieve may come the way of farmers in Gombe State amidst scarcity of fertilizer as the State Governor, Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, has ordered that the commodity should not be sold at a price above N5,000 per bag. He stated this at the flag-off of the 2020 fertilizer sales in the State and […]
[ad_1] A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ court has sentenced a 22-year-old herder, Bala Juli of Adadu Village in Nasarawa State, to a one-year jail term in a correctional centre for openly grazing cows in Benue. The Magistrate, Mr Isaac Ajim, summarily tried and convicted the defendant after he pleaded guilty of the offence. He, however, gave […]
[ad_1] The smart greenhouse market could reach $2.1 billion by 2025, increasing from $1.4 billion in 2020, according to a recent report exploring emerging trends in rooftop farming operations in urban areas. Between hardware and software, hardware devices like HVAC systems, LED grow lights, sensors, irrigations systems, and control systems will comprise a large share […]
[ad_1] Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing has unveiled an agricultural programme initiative, aimed at encouraging more Igbo youths to return to farming and other agricultural practices to create jobs and wealth for themselves and their families. Unveiling the initiative at the National Secretariat of the apex Igbo organization in Enugu where fertilizer, seed crops and covid-19 […]
[ad_1] Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze ndigbo, yesterday, rose against the menace of herdsmen in the southeast especially with the recent killing of 65-year-old farmer, Uzoemena Iriaka in his farm in Umuekpu, Agwa, Oguta Council Area of Imo State. The farmer was allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen. Ohanaeze Ndigbo, therefore, called on Igbos to defend […]
[ad_1] With unsustainable forms of intensification driving negative social and environmental impacts in Africa, and the COVID-19 pandemic revealing major vulnerabilities in food supply chains, there is a need for a radical shift in agri-development priorities and the money flows behind them. A new report by Biovision International, IPES-Food and the UK-based Institute of Development […]
[ad_1] Switching sharply to developing a vaccine for Covid-19 appears to have proved a boon for GreenLight Biosciences, a company that previously focused on developing biological pesticides. The Massachusetts-based biotech firm has just raised an oversubscribed $102 million round of funding, AFN can confirm, and much of this will go toward countering the ongoing global […]
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Dmytro Lennyi is agritech practice leader at Intellias, a software engineering and consulting firm based in Lviv, Ukraine, that assists tech companies with their software development needs. This article reflects the views of the author, and not necessarily those of AFN. Every time I visit agritech events, I discover new farm management software. […]
[ad_1] The Good Food Institute (GFI) India and agrifood accelerator Gastrotope have launched a program aimed at kickstarting alt-protein entrepreneurship in the country. The India Smart Protein Innovation Challenge is targeted squarely at the next generation of plant-based protein pioneers. It’s open to Indian nationals, or non-Indian nationals who have been working in the country, […]
[ad_1] OVER the last couple of weeks, there have been a lot of conversations around the executive summary of the 2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria report released by the National Bureau of Statistics. Coming at a time when the coronavirus pandemic has clearly shown the level of inequality that exists within the Nigerian society, […]
[ad_1] ZAMFARA State government has disclosed that a total of 60,000 cotton and rice farmers will be supported under its new agriculture partnership scheme. The state government said that the project will be executed in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Special Adviser, Zamfara Directorate of Accelerated Cotton Development, ZAMDACOD, Abdullahi Maiturare, made […]
[ad_1] AGRICULTURE is the fulcrum of Africa’s economy, with growth-enabling roles that cut across all crucial sectors despite its seemingly dwindling share of the continent’s GDP. In the wake of sustained efforts to translate economic challenges into opportunities, the African farmer is at the core of it, and has to continuously re engineer their […]