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The National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NACOTAN), Kano chapter, has flagged off a recovery exercise of the 2019 season of cotton farming, under the Federal Government’s anchor borrower scheme, implemented through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Speaking during the ceremony, the national vice president of the NACOTAN, North-West, Alhaji Munzali Dayyabu Taura, said the […]
The United States and China cooled their trade war on Friday, announcing a “Phase one” agreement that reduces some U.S. tariffs in exchange for what U.S. officials said would be a big jump in Chinese purchases of American farm products and other goods. Beijing has agreed to import at least $200 billion in additional U.S. […]
The President of RIFAN, Mr Aminu Goronyo, told newsmen in Abuja that the Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, signed the MoU. He said that the minister described the move as his contribution toward the Presidential Initiative to make Nigeria the rice hub in Africa and to ensure food security. Goronyo added that the minister […]
This was made known by the National Coordinator, NFGCS, Mr Redson Tedheke, while speaking on the opportunities agribusiness has for Nigerians based on the 84 million arable hectares of farmland the country possesses, hence no excuse of being hungry, jobless, and poor. Tedheke further stated this is the right time Nigerians should tap into various […]
Maize growers, Processors, and Marketers Association of Nigeria (MAGPMAN) has pleaded with the federal and state governments to provide infrastructural and storage facilities to boost farmers’ output. The association’s National President Edwin Uche made this appeal in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. Uche urged governments at the federal […]
Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation-Water Enabler Compact (TAAT-WEC) has trained some farmers in Kano on Improved irrigation and water management in wheat and rice production. The National Coordinator of TAAT-WEC, Prof. Henry Igbadun in his remarks at the workshop on Thursday, said the training was aimed at boosting wheat and rice production in Kano and […]
Government officials are working to contain an incident of avian flu confirmed at a 27,000-bird commercial broiler farm in Mid Suffolk. The low pathogenic avian flu of the H5 strain was first discovered on Tuesday, December 10. All birds will now be humanely culled and we have put in place a 1km restriction zone around […]
To stay profitable in an increasingly tough environment, farmers must use their land and other resources to their maximum potential. The amazingly detailed imagery captured by unmanned aerial vehicles can help achieve this. Lloyd Phillips visited Agri-Sense International to find out more. In its six-year existence, Agri-Sense International, which is based in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, has […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed the commitment of his administration to always provide necessary assistance and advisory services to farmers in order to increase productivity in ensuring food security in the state. Sanwo-Olu gave the assurances on Thursday while addressing beneficiaries at the Flag-Off of the 2019 Agricultural Value Chains Empowerment programme […]
A Dutse Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced a 67-year-old farmer, Samson Aku, to three months imprisonment for maiming and killing a herdsman’s cows which strayed into his farm. The presiding officer, Suleiman Mohammed, sentenced Aku after finding the convict guilty of the charges filed against him. The act, according to the […]
One of the major eye-catching features along the highways leading into Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital city, is the number of large expanses of farmlands which the well-to-do in society acquire, fence and lock up. The farms are, however left with little or no farming activity going on, on them. Along Abuja-Keffi expressway in Nasarawa […]
Located at Barangoni village in Bwari Area Council, the 10-hectare fish farm estate was a well-conceived model that would have triggered massive production of fish not only in the estate, but also the surrounding areas. The project, which was commissioned in 2012 amidst fanfare by the then Minister of State for FCT, Olajumoke Akinjide, is […]
The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich has recognized a local technological device developed by a Nigerian on the transformation of the cassava value chain development and other crops in Africa. The technology, ‘flash dryer’ dries agricultural products such as yam, cassava, potato and other granulated food commodities for elongated shelf life. […]
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture is committed to refocusing the agricultural sector by educating farmers on the right technologies to adopt during production, processing, packaging and marketing. The Director, Extension Services of the Ministry, Dr. Karima Babangida, made this known during the 2019 Annual National Agricultural Extension Review and Planning Meeting held at the National […]
The Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS) has said it is ready to clampdown on unqualified and fake soil scientists in the country. The institute said it had reached an advanced stage towards the planned prosecution of unqualified soil scientists. The Registrar, NISS, Professor Victor Chude, who made this known in Abuja at the induction […]