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Fiyah Global Concept Ltd, one of the major sponsors of the ongoing Daily Trust Agric Conference says the its products and services will help farmers achieve great success in agribusiness. The company is an agribusiness group which is exclusively devoted to the Nigerian agricultural and food sectors. The managing director of the company, Ramesh Ghadge, […]
Former Head of State, retired General Abdulsalami Abubakar, the King of Brass in Rivers State, Chief Alfred Diete-Spiff and the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, have identified absence of infrastructural facilities, effective insurance packages, access to finance and absence of quality inputs and ready markets as some of the problems confronting […]
Southwest states are promoting food production. One area governments in the region are working on is improvement of the poultry and fisheries’sectors’ capacities to ensure food sufficiency. The private sector is partnering the states to increase productivity, DANIEL ESSIET reports. With an average yearly economic growth rate of more than five per cent, the Southwest […]
Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has said the unemployment rate in the state will reduce next year as no fewer than 10,000 workers will be engaged at the Niger State Rice Mill. He spoke at the inauguration of the multi-million dollar Integrated Rice Processing and Milling Complex built by Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) […]
The Technical committee on Herdsmen/Farmers conflicts in Nigeria, on Wednesday charged the Federal Government to apply creativity towards addressing the recurrent conflict plaquing the country, instead of wishing such sensitive issues away. Chairman, Technical Committee to the government on the way forward on Herdsmen/Farmers conflicts, Prof Oshita Oshita, gave the charge during a capacity building […]
The King of Brass and first Governor of Rivers State, King Alfred Diete-Spiff, has said that Nigeria can make billions of dollars from mushroom cultivation. He stated this yesterday in Abuja at the opening ceremony of the 2nd Daily Trust Agricultural Conference and Exhibition organised in partnership with Fihah Global Concept Ltd, Federal Ministry of […]
One of the equipment exhibited in the ongoing Daily Trust Agric Conference is the power tiller machine, by Habgito Nig. Ltd Lagos, which caught the attention of many small and medium scale farmers. Mr. Unula Nwuche, the Executive Officer of the company, said that the power tiller provides solution to many farmers in the country, […]
Animal Care, one of the largest agro-allied industries in the livestock subsector in Nigeria has introduced a new boiled egg technology which prolongs the shelf-life of boiled egg for more than one month. According to the company representative at the exhibition, Mr. Shola, “this is actually the boiled egg and coloured. It is coloured like […]
Asaju Energy Limited excited farmers and processors at the event with the exhibition of the prototype of the new technology that will solve many problems of the farmers and enhance their capacity to be productive. Patrick Aighemie who represented the company at the exhibition arena said the technology was developed by the technology centre, Europe. […]
The federal government in collaboration with the Lake Chad Basin Commission has begun a move aimed at preventing Lake Chad from drying up. As part of the moves, the commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the POWERCHINA International Group Limited to actualize the transfer of water from the Congo Basin to Lake […]
Pro-organic agriculture experts and other stakeholders at a recently concluded summit in Abuja have unanimously appointed Dr. (Mrs.) Sarah Jubril, who was Special Assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Ethics and Values, to lead ten others in drafting a well-articulated bill on organic agriculture to be presented to the National Assembly for passage. The […]
The federal government will support potato farmers to achieve all year round production in order to reduce wheat flour importation in 2017, the minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has said. Dr Onu, who said this in Abuja when the executives of the Potato Farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN) paid him a visit […]
Africa will be able to grow enough cereals to feed its growing population by 2050, but only if it breaks a culture of complacency and starts now to invest more in agriculture, scientists said on Monday. Sub-Saharan Africa currently imports about 20 percent of its cereal needs, and this could rise to at least 50 […]
A scientist with the University of Saskatchewan says the provision of environmental enrichment has the potential to improve both the health and productivity of the pig, writes Bruce Cochrane. Canada’s revised Pig Code of Practice requires producers to start to consider the provision of environmental enrichment. Dr Yolande Seddon, an Assistant Professor in Swine Behavior […]
The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, was chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) from 2001 until January 2005. He is currently the Minister of Agriculture. Ogbeh who is also known for his literary works in this interview with a select group of newsmen spoke about the challenges facing the country as farmers now export […]