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The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, has blamed the Nigerian elite for the underdevelopment of the nation’s agricultural sector. Mr Ogbeh spoke at a town hall meeting in Dutse, Jigawa State, that focused on developments in the agriculture sector under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The meeting was attended by federal and […]
Persistent dry weather and pest attacks are poised to cut India’s sugar output from a record this year even after farmers in the world’s second-largest producer increased plantings. Production may total 28,9 million tonnes in the year that began Oct. 1. That compares with the reduced estimate of 32 million tonnes made last month by […]
File Photo: Children benefiting from Home Growth School Feeding Programme of the Buhari administration By Ifeanyi Nwoko The Home Grown School Feeding Programme, one of the packages under the Federal Government’s Social Intervention Programme (SIP) has created wealth for over 250,000 farmers, cooks and others involved in the scheme. According to statistics made available during […]
A two-pronge developmental issues will be solved in Nigeria if the advice of a Professor of QuantitativeStatistical genetics and animal breeding, Michael Ozoje, is heeded. One is the vexed issue of Fulani herdsmen and farmers clashes which is resulting in high loss of human and material capital and the other, absence of performance records of […]
Bangladesh is scrapping an international tender to import 50,000 tonnes of wheat, citing higher prices, two officials from the state grains procurement agency said on Sunday. Agrocorp International made the lowest offer of $297.20 a tonne, including CIF liner out, in the tender, which was issued late last month by the Directorate General of Food, […]
ADVERTISEMENT A cowpea farm at the University of Agriculture in Makurdi The ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) has called for direct allocation from government to Agricultural Development programme (ADP) as part of measures to ensure access to extension services especially by smallholder women farmers. The AAN Food and Agriculture Programme Coordinator, Azubike Nwokoye, made the call in […]
A bill to prohibit the killing and export of donkeys or its derivatives, was on Tuesday read for the first time at the House of Representatives. The “Bill to enact the donkey export and killing (prohibition) bill, 2018” was sponsored by Garba Datti Muhammed (APC, Kaduna). In a lead debate, Muhammed said the main thrust […]
(2nd R) Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Aisha Abubakar; Deputy Governor of jigawa State, Ibrahim Hassan, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed; Governor of Jigawa State Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe at a Special Town Hall Meeting on Agriculture in Dutse, Jigawa State, on […]
THE National President of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Mr. Ezekiel Ibrahim, has disclosed that the poultry industry can drive the nation’s economy if government gives more attention to the industry in the areas of policies formulation and implementation. Ibrahim said this at the opening ceremony of 8th edition of the Nigeria Poultry Show […]
It was a huge week for EU corn imports as 582,658 mt arrived in the bloc in the week to November 11, the biggest single week of imports since March 2017, data from the European Commission showed Monday. Big buying in the Netherlands (297,623 mt) and Spain (129,712 mt) drove this week’s volumes, with Ireland […]
Nigeria’s Information and Culture Minister Mr Lai Mohammed promises never to contest for any post in 2019 general election but focuses on liberating Kwara State. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the Federal Government expended N2.7 trillion on agriculture and provision of other critical infrastructure in the 2017 budget. […]
GOVERNMENT has been asked to declare a state of emergency in the agriculture research sector. Making the call was the Chairman, Board of fellows, Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), Professor Ebenezer Adebisi Adebowale, while speaking with the Nigerian Tribune over the weekend. He pointed out that agricultural researches need adequate funding and there was […]
AGRI-GIANT Wilmar International’s net profit for the third quarter jumped 10.7 per cent to US$407.4 million from a restated US$368.1 million a year ago led by better showing in tropical oils and oilseeds and grains businesses. An added boost to the bottom line came from higher share of results of affiliates and a slight improvement […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has identified Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) and ZSoonosis as one of the major challenges constraining the country’s agricultural sector. Zoonosis is animal diseases transferable to man. Mr Suffyan Koroma, the FAO Country Representative made this known in Abuja at a three-day training on Good Emergency Management Practices (GEMP). Kotoma, […]
Chief Audu Ogbe Minister of Agriculture Mills By Ginika Okoye The Federal Government has commenced distribution of cattle feed mills and rice milling machines to increase local rice production and end farmers/herdsmen clashes across the country. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the move was also to use agricultural wastes […]