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[ad_1] Lagos – Dr Adeola Odedina Odedina, Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture, has stated that the state government has been proactive to meet the envisaged high demand for food after COVID-19. He stated this while speaking during a tour to Hyst Global Business Limited, makers of Okun Rice, in Itoikin, a boundary community between Lagos […]
[ad_1] US-based Agro.Club has raised $1.5 million led by Speedinvest with participation from Elevator Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Raiffeisen Bank International. “We closed the round in January and we delayed the news because of the Covid-19 situation,” Egor Kirin, founder and CEO, told AFN. “It was very good timing. We have enough […]
[ad_1] Gojek has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from new investors Facebook and PayPal and existing backers Google and Tencent, it announced today. Several other unnamed investors also participated. Jakarta-based ‘super app’ Gojek, which provides myriad services including food delivery, payments, and ride-hailing across Southeast Asia, said in a statement that the investment came […]
[ad_1] Zamfara State Government has set aside 135, 000 hectares of fertile land for cotton farming, the Executive Director, Patriots for the Advancement of Peace And Development, Dr. Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has disclosed. Speaking on the one year anniversary of Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle. Dr. Abdullahi Shinkafi said apart from putting in place a Directorate […]
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Michael Dean is founding partner of global agri-foodtech VC AgFunder, which recently invested in Singapore-based SinGrow, a vertical farming startup. All views expressed are his own and not of AFN’s editor or team of journalists. If you’ve ever tried buying strawberries in Singapore, the chances are you’ve ended up disappointed. It’s difficult […]
[ad_1] The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) Lagos State Chapter, says swine fever virus has killed pigs worth about N7 billion in the Oke-Aro piggery farm during the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. Dr Femi Oke, AFAN’s Chairman told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday, that the farm was stricken […]
[ad_1] There’s a new fund in town with an eye towards accelerating regenerative agriculture. “While our history is in software, we see a change coming to food that mirrors the cloud computing revolution in technology,” said Ed Byrne, co-founder of Soilworks, in a statement announcing the new fund. “Regenerative practices are proven but not yet […]
[ad_1] The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that crop production accounted for 90.54 per cent of overall nominal growth of the agriculture sector in the first quarter of this year. NBS made the disclosure in its Quarterly National Accounts (QNA), an integrated system of macroeconomics designed to describe the entire system of […]
[ad_1] The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) says it plans to empower 77,400 young farmers to engage in agricultural business. NALDA said the agricultural businesses would range from crop farming to animal husbandry across the country. Its Executive Secretary, Mr Paul Ikonne, said this at a news conference in Abuja on Monday. NALDA was […]
[ad_1] Labour unions at the Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu (FECAI), Ebonyi, on Monday staged a peaceful protest at the institution’s premises. The protesters shut the institution gates over allegations of maladministration by some staff members of the university. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who witnessed the protest, reported that the unions under […]
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: John Corbett is founder and CEO of aWhere, a weather data analytics company. aWhere operates what it describes at “the world’s largest network of detailed daily weather delivering accurate, localized and in-time observed weather to farmers and the agri-food sector with 1.9 million virtual weather stations covering the world from 60°N–60°S.” Relevant […]
[ad_1] The United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) says it has committed $40 million and launched an urgent appeal for additional funds to support farmers and rural communities amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This was disclosed by the president of the agency, Gilbert Houngbo, in a report published recently on its website. IFAD’s new […]
[ad_1] Lagos- As the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect every sector of the economy, Cashew farmers have said that they lost nothing less than N28 billion to the lockdown as the prices plummets and as they could not export their produce. Ojo Ajanaku, National President of the National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) during a […]
[ad_1] Biologics may seem like an emerging field in the agtech space but for at least one company it’s been a decade in the making. Just like the biblical parable of the humble mustard seed, which happens to be the origin of its active ingredient, the company is hoping to grow into a titan in […]
[ad_1] South-West Tomato Growers Association of Nigeria on Monday assured the nation that high cost of the commodity would soon be over as the farmers are approaching the glut period. The group’s president, Mr Bamidele Ajani said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Ibadan. The tomato is […]