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Sugar, it’s so quintessentially Cuban that even a young, machete-wielding Fidel Castro used to hack away at the cane stalks vital to the Caribbean island’s economy. Now, the long-time world leader in sugar production is importing the stuff for the first time, and in large amounts, from France after another bad harvest. Sugar used to […]
The Egyptian state buyer GASC purchased 30 KMT of sunflower oil and 26 KMT soybean oil in a tender held on October 24, 2018, reports UkrAgroConsult. According to market participants, the sunflower oil was bought from Glencore (30 KMT at a price of USD 702/MTm) and the soybean oil was bought from Watanya/Cargill (26 KMT […]
Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, says government is set to revitalise agriculture extension services in the country. The minister spoke in Abuja during the FGN/IFAD Assisted Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), Commodity Alliance Forum 2018 (CAF), with the theme “Partnership for enhancing productivity and marketing for sustainable […]
OCP, a leading global phosphate plant nutrition producer, has completed the acquisition of 20 per cent shares of Fertinagro Biotech, a company which manufactures and supplies wide range of plant nutrition solutions by way of a capital increase.. According to a joint statement by the two companies, a copy of which was made available to […]
The Value Chain Development Programme of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD-VCDP) has injected 68.9 million U.S. dollars into the Nigerian economy. Ms. Mariatu Kamara, IFAD Programme Officer, disclosed this in Abuja at the 2018 National Commodity Alliance Forum (CAF). She said that the engagement of private-sector players by IFAD-VCDP through the CAF initiative […]
The National Coordinator, Nigeria Agricultural Exporters Group (NAEG), John Okakpu, has called on government to support private sector operators in order to boost foreign exchange earnings for the country. According to John, with favourable policies and support, the private sector can multiply the volume of agriculture based exports from Nigeria. Okakpu, disclosed this in Lagos […]
India and Afghanistan are pushing ahead with plans to open a new transportation corridor between the two countries via Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar despite US sanctions. New Delhi sees the port crucial to its connectivity ambitions, including access to CIS countries – a regional organization of 10 post-Soviet republics in Eurasia. For landlocked Afghanistan, […]
THE House of Representatives Committee on Water Resources has called for more budgetary allocation in the 2019 Appropriation Bill for Ogun-Oshun River Basin Development Authority (OORBDA), Abeokuta, to enable the government agency delivered its core mandate to the people. This call was made by the Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Haman Pategi,while speaking with journalists […]
The Nigerian Agriculture Quarantine Service (NAQS), has raised the alarm that many export cargoes bound for foreign countries now bypass inspection at Apapa port. The government agency assigned to carry out examination process on agric produce before shipping out of the country alleged that the agency is being excluded from cargo examination process at the […]
Bangladesh’s state tender to purchase and import 50,000 tonnes of wheat on Wednesday drew a lowest offer from trading house Swiss Singapore Overseas of $291.93 a tonne CIF liner out, officials at the state grains buyer said. Three other trading houses competed for the tender from Bangladesh’s Directorate General of Food. No purchase has yet […]
The Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IART), Ibadan, has advised farmers to actively engage in mushroom cultivation because of its great revenue generation potential. The Executive Director of IART, Prof. James Adediran, gave the advice in Ibadan on Monday at a workshop organised by IART on edible mushroom production. Adediran, who was represented by […]
Chief Emmanuel Ogunnaike, is the Chairman of Folhope Limited, a company renown for integrated farming which includes livestock production, among others. In this interview by NURUDEEN ALIMI, he lists reasons government should exempt farmers, particularly poultry farmers, from all forms of taxation. YOU were at the Oyo State House of Assembly’s Speaker’s office where you […]
Yewande Kazeem is a 2018 fellow of the Cornell Alliance for Science. In this interview with NKECHI ISAAC, she highlights the benefits of modern agricultural biotechnology application in Nigeria. With a population of over 180 million, Nigeria is facing food shortage, especially in the north east. How can the country deploy biotechnology to provide for […]
Wheat, a major staple food and cash crop of the country, would be cultivated over 8,781.6 thousand hectares of land across crop producing areas of the country during Rabi season 2018-19 in order to produce about 25.572 million tons of grains for fulfilling the domestic requirements as well as to exports. In this regard, all […]
Image: Mynairanaija Israel will train 1000 rice farmers from Cross River State on modern farming techniques, following the signing of a pact between both parties. Governor Ben Ayade signed the pact on behalf of the State as he noted that the move is to make the South-South State the leading producer of rice in the […]