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The Monsanto Sobsidiary Aims To Nearly Double Paid Subscriptions In 2017. The top corn yield in the 2015 National Corn Growers Association yield contest tallied 532 bushels per acre. Meanwhile, 2015’s average yield on the remaining 80.7 million U.S. corn acres harvested for grain tallied 168.4 bushels per acre. So why the yield gap? Well, […]
It’s the subject of conversation at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention that’s wrapping up today in Phoenix and in the halls of the U.S. Senate. Even at National Farmers Union, a farm group with members who often vote for Democrats, there’s disappointment. The unanswered question: Who will be President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary […]
Mr Wellington Omoragbon, State Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Edo, says the Federal Government has begun the construction of a fish market at Illushi Community in Edo. Omoragbon told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Benin that the fish market was located at Illushi in Esan South-East Local […]
Cross River Government lost over N130 million revenue in 2016 due to allocation of cocoa farms to ghost farmers, Mr Oscar Ofuka, Special Adviser to Gov. Ben Ayade on Cocoa Development, has said. Ofuka made the disclosure on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar. He said the governor […]
Collins Nnabuife spoke with the Chairman of the Nigerian Agribusiness Group (NABG), Sani Dangote, on how best the government can revitalise the agriculture sector through business approach. What have been your achievements in the last two years? In the last two and half years, we started this association, we have been able to bring together […]
Recently, organic agriculture practitioners and other stakeholders in the system of agriculture converged on Ijero-Ekiti, headquarters of Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, where they learnt that no fewer than 31 organic fertilizer companies operating in Nigeria are now involved in the Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES) initiated by the Federal Government for the promotion […]
The Deputy Speaker, Federal House of Representatives, Honourable Sualaimon Lasun-Yussuff, has donated three tractors worth N60 million to boost agriculture in Osun State. The tractors were presented to All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Osogbo/Olorunda/Orolu/Irepodun Federal Constituency by the lawmaker in Osogbo, on Friday. Honourable Lasun-Yussuff called on government at all levels and other […]
The Federal Government has expressed its determination to ensure that the country achieves food security and sufficiency. To this end, the government through the Ministry of Agriculture and rural Development, has put several measures in place that has today enhanced increased food production, especially grains. The Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, positioned […]
Farmers in Kano state have produced 1,551,720 tons of rice in 2016 as against the 692,481 tons produced in 2015, the state Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has said. Ganduje announced this at Kano Seed Processing Centre, Kadawa in Garun Malam local government area during an interacting session with farmers on loan recovery of the Central […]
Lovers of apple, majority of which is imported from South Africa, Europe and Asia, commonly known as Temperate/Mediterranean apples, need not go far anymore, as a new variety has been developed in Nigeria. The new variety-Bell apple is a unique and amazing tropical apple variety now produced in Nigeria, although still relatively new to the […]
The Federal Government, in collaboration with Federal College of Agriculture, Akure (FECA), has trained over 500 unemployed graduates in 16 states, to serve as mentors for future generation of farmers. Provost of the college, Dr. Samson Odedina, who disclosed this at the opening ceremony of a five-day vocational training in modern agriculture on the campus, […]
Federal Government has been urged to review some of its policies and requirements to accommodate smallholder farmers willing to venture into agro processing, in order to maximise the economic growth potential in the agro value chain. This call was made by the founder and President of the Women in Agricultural Advancement & Sustainability Africa (WAASA), […]
It is no longer news that Benue State is reputed to produce over 120 agricultural products and as such the state prides itself as the “food basket of the nation” with some of the crops grown to include yam, cassava, soya bean, maize, cow pea, potatoes and citrus, potentials still largely untapped. Daily Trust reports […]
I visited Katsina over the holidays and took the opportunity to attend the launching of the Rice Anchor Borrowers Programme in Jibia sponsored by the Central Bank and the Bank of Agriculture. The project is aimed at developing the rice value chain by supplying credit for improved seeds, pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers. The State Government […]
Just before Christmas last year, Governors Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos and Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi States together launched Lake Rice to the public. “Lake” was coined from the names of the two states. The occasion culminated a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two states in Lagos on March 23, 2016 on production and […]