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[ad_1] Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF) on Tuesday identified with the call made by Kano State governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje on President Muhammadu Buhari to end the protocol on free movement that allows herdsmen from other countries to freely move into Nigeria, describing such call as a very sensible demand. Tribune Online reports that […]
[ad_1] Ohanaeze youths have given two weeks notice to all killer herdsmen in Igboland to quit the forests and bushes in the area or be ejected by force. Speaking through their national youth leader, Chief Arthur Obiorah, the youths said the bushes and forests belong to the people and must no longer harbor killer herdsmen. […]
[ad_1] Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday opened a 200,000 capacity yam facility at the Zaki Biam International Market in Benue State. The market is assumed to be the biggest yam market in the world, accounting for about 70% of the yams cultivated in the country with over 200 trucks loading two million tubers of yams […]
[ad_1] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Tuesday, said it would fund 1.6 million farmers across the country in the 2020 wet season. through its Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP). This was disclosed by the CBN’s Director, Development Finance Department, Yila Yusuf, during the flag-off of Farm Inputs Distribution for cotton farmers for the 2020 planting […]
[ad_1] Microbial crop inputs are gaining interest. From seed coatings to soil amendments, there are a number of approaches startups are taking to test the limits of these alternatives to traditional chemical inputs. For Andes Ag, however, the future of microbial inputs isn’t so much about coatings or sprays, it’s about seeds. “Traditional bacterial seed […]
[ad_1] The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, urged the Federal Government to put a halt to the entry of herdsmen from other African countries into Nigeria. The resolution was passed sequel to the adoption of a motion on the ‘need to stop the entry of herdsmen from other African countries’ sponsored by the Minority Leader, […]
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Seana Day is a Partner at Better Food Ventures and The Mixing Bowl, with 15 years of finance, M&A, and technology experience. She is the author of the 2019 Agtech Landscape and Livestock Tech Landscape. Seana now lives in Turlock, the heart of California’s Ag land. Here is her first farm tech market map. The agtech sector is expanding each year, […]
[ad_1] Southeast Asian order-anything app Grab has launched a raft of initiatives aimed at brining more small and medium-sized merchants into its ecosystem, including farmers and agrifood vendors, amid supply chain disruption and other knock-on effects from Covid-19. Grab started out as a ride-hailing service, but it has since expanded into myriad other services including […]
[ad_1] The homepage of the American-Israeli investment firm Arieli Capital offers a quote from Seth Godin, a blogger and podcaster: “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas,” believes Godin, “what’s missing is the will to execute them.” Few would dispute that growing fish or strawberries in a desert is a remarkable idea, even in 2020. One […]
[ad_1] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), recently announced a 1 per cent reduction in the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 13.5 to 12.5 per cent, a development which was lauded by many. However, some major stakeholders in the agriculture sector differ on this, sticking by the standpoint that the reduction in the MPR does […]
[ad_1] RENOWN world producer of fertliser, OCP Africa as part of its contribution to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on farmers in partnership with the Bauchi state government recently trained 5,000 farmers on new farming techniques under its new project to assist farmers to get farming inputs at a subsidized rate. Speaking during the […]
[ad_1] The Oxfam in Nigeria has said that the government is not doing enough to support farmers to continue to provide food for a nation of an estimated 200 million people. The Oxfam in Nigeria Country Director, Mr. Constant Tchona, who made the call on Friday during a virtual meeting as part of activities marking […]
[ad_1] The US animal health market generates around $10 billion in sales each year, according to the Animal Health Institute, and makes up roughly one-third of the global market. It is on pace to reach $73.6 billion by 2027. Although increased spending on pets has been a big driver of sales growth, an increase in […]
[ad_1] The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has unveiled a strategic roadmap of projects and programmes to assist African countries in tackling the nutrition and food security aspects of the COVID-19 crisis through a raft of immediate and longer-term measures. The Feed Africa Response to COVID-19 (FAREC) paves the way for a comprehensive intervention to build […]
[ad_1] The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono, has flagged-off the distribution of agricultural inputs to Nigerian farmers, a statement said on Monday The statement signed by the ministry’s spokesperson, Ikemefuna Ezeajaa, said the exercise serves to boost agricultural production in the country and avert food scarcity in 2021. The inputs distributed to […]