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[ad_1] The Plateau State government has commenced its post-COVID-19 economic recovery plan with the reacquisition of the Brewery Agro Research Company, BARC Farms in Zallaki Village in Bassa Local Government area of the State which was sold of in the 1990s To begin the process of making the moribund farm functional, State Governor, Simon Lalong […]
[ad_1] In an effort to promote a smooth agricultural value chain in Nigeria, the federal government this week inaugurated a yam storage facility in Benue State reported as being able to store up to 200,000 tubers of yam. The vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, did the inauguration virtually on Tuesday. The storage facilities, located at Zaki […]
[ad_1] Agwara Local Government Council in Niger State on Saturday said that it has spent N1.4 million to fix three broken-down tractors for this year’s farming season. Tribune Online reports Alhaji Nura Kokoli, the council chairman disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) while inspecting the three reactivated tractors at the council secretariat […]
[ad_1] As Nigeria and Nigerians celebrate Democracy Day on June 12, 2020, and 21 years of uninterrupted democratic dispensation, President Muhammadu Buhari, in a national broadcast to commemorate the day, assured farmers of availability and affordability of fertilizers for the 2020 cropping season. Buhari, who also maintained that the agricultural sector remains a major sector […]
[ad_1] President Muhammadu Buhari said Nigeria’s revenue from cocoa and sesame seeds has increased by $79.4 million and $153 million respectively in the past year. He disclosed this in his speech during a national broadcast to commemorate the Nigerian “Democracy Day”, Friday. “Our efforts on growing non-oil exports have started to yield some results. For […]
[ad_1] Cashew farmers in the country, under the aegis of National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN), has said that it is in talk with the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment to urge Bank of Industry, (BOI) and Nigerian Export Import (NEXIM) bank to invest in processing and value addition of cashew. Ojo Ajanaku, National […]
[ad_1] LAGOS – As the effect of the lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic continue to bite harder on businesses and the nation’s economy, agro commodity exporters have lamented that they are the worst hit as they could not export their produce due to the restrictions in movement. Sayina Riman, National President of the Cocoa […]
[ad_1] Stakeholders in the financial sector have called for creation of financing solution through issuance of green bond by agriculture sector to sustain food security amid COVID-19 pandemic. They made the call on Thursday at a webinar oragnised by FMDQ Holdings Plc, Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) and Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa. The capacity building […]
[ad_1] One of Covid-19’s biggest casualties in the agrifoodtech dealmaking arena so far is Livestock Improvement Corporation’s (LIC) scuppered $70 million investment in Afimilk. The New Zealand dairy farmers’ cooperative had done everything but sign on the dotted line for a 50% stake in the Israeli milk meter maker. LIC’s senior management had made the […]
[ad_1] Anyone out there planning a gripping documentary on food fraud would do well to shadow the detective work of Interpol and Europol’s “Operation Opson,” a series of European supply chain investigations first prompted by the notorious Horsemeat Scandal of 2013. During the eighth phase of Opson, by early 2019, investigators ended up seizing “more […]
[ad_1] Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty due to COVID-19, but the agri-food sector is likely to show more resilience to the pandemic than other sectors, a report released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations says. The food outlook report published on Thursday on the FAO webpage provides […]
[ad_1] A soil scientist, Rattan Lal, was on Thursday named the 2020 recipient of the World Food Prize. The organisers said his research led to improved food production and a better understanding of how atmospheric carbon can be sequestered in the soil to help combat climate change. This was disclosed in a statement sent to […]
[ad_1] For a specialty crop grower, selecting the next season’s seeds is a big deal. Most market gardeners and other enterprise-level operators receive a massive stack of seed catalogs each year. They pour over them meticulously, dogearing page after page bearing promising seed varieties. To give a sense of these tomes, one catalog offers over […]
[ad_1] Gaby Novakovic is the lead organizer of the OnRamp Agriculture Conference that’s set to take place virtually on July 9. We caught up with her to find out they pivoted what was going to be a physical event into a virtual one that’s focused on helping startups start valuable conversations with potential investors and […]
[ad_1] A welcome impact from the Covid-19 pandemic has been clearer skies and returning wildlife to usually polluted areas after industry, transport systems, and more shut down across the world, reducing carbon emissions. Today marks two months since the UK’s electricity industry last used coal; the longest period since the Industrial Revolution began more than […]