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Fruit and vegetable exporters are facing challenges shipping fresh produce abroad, a member of the Nigeria-Vietnam Business Association, Mr Sunday Anjorin, has said. He said lack of standard packaging materials and certification process were challenges hindering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from accessing international fruit markets. He said fruit and vegetable exports faced many challenges, […]
—A national drive to increase cassava production is gathering strength. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Nigerian Incentive Risk-based System of Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) are to roll out initiatives to support cassava farmers to boost production. This was the high point of African Agribusiness Supplier […]
AS government intensifies efforts to develop the agriculture sector, development partners, under the auspices of Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND, are to invest $5 billion in the cassava sub-sector in five years. This was contained in a statement signed by Programme Director, PIND, Dr Dara Akala, who explained that National Cassava […]
The federal government has raised the alarm over the outbreak of quelea birds, locust and grasshoppers in farms in some frontline states. The minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbe, raised the alarm while brainstorming on strategies to curtail the menace with 21 representatives of states in Abuja yesterday. The states so far affected include Jigawa, […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, on Monday flagged of the Governor David Umahi administration’s one-man, one hectare agricultural programme in the state. The ocassion which was witnessed by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adawele, was kick started with the planting of palm trees at Ezillo Farm and a symbolic […]
Representatives of IYA defending the Fished Up app at the Hackathon. A community-based fish farmers’ web application developed by the Abuja IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) was judged the best during the semifinals of the Fish Farming Agrihack West Africa 2016 competition. The contest was organized by The Technical Centre for Rural and Agricultural Cooperation (CTA), […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has praised rural farmers, and affirmed that they feed the teeming population in Nigeria and play a prominent role in the social security of the country. Chief Ogbeh made this known at Otukpo, Benue State, during the distribution of stems of improved varieties of cassava […]
Recently, the Food Loss and Waste (FLW) Protocol partnership released the first-ever global standard that provides requirements and guidance to measure, report on, and manage the amount of food removed from the food supply chain. The Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard, or the FLW Standard, was created with the hope that global […]
According to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), close to 17 percent of the world’s livestock breeds face extinction. Many of these livestock breeds are indigenous, adapted to local conditions with long agricultural and pastoral traditions. Africa alone is home to more than 150 cataloged breeds of cattle. The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) […]
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) Cooperative and Multipurpose Society Limited and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), FUNAAB Branch, have elected new officers to steer the affairs of both organisations. The newly-elected President, UNAAB Cooperative and Multipurpose Society Limited, Alhaji Kama-rudeen Adedo, at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the association held […]
—As HarvestPlus Fetes 100 Farmers Mechanised farming Farmers have been urged to plan effectively and see their farms as business entities. They are urged to link the expansive value chain, which feeds agro-allied and other industries, in order to address wastage. The charge was given by agricultural development experts at a field trip organised by […]
A pre-shipment inspection agent for export, Mr Shehu Abdulkadir, on Friday called on the Federal Government to investigate the circumstances that started the controversy leading to rejection of Nigeria’s edible beans by the European Union. According to European Food Safety Authority, beans is expected to have maximum residue limit of 0.01mg/kg but the ones from Nigeria […]
Cross River State governor, Prof Ben Ayade is planning to establish a Proper Professional Food Bank as a steady market for farmers across the local government areas in the state. Prof Ben Ayade Governor Ayade is optimistic that agriculture can go a long way to strengthening Nigeria’s Economy which at the moment is in recession. […]
We welcome the plan by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to construct 10 earth dams in each of the nation’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with effect from next year. Agriculture Minister, Chief Audu Ogbeh, announced the plan tagged “Project 10/37” in his goodwill message at the public presentation of the […]
Monday, 29th August, 2016 will, for a long time, go down on record as a day that a uniquely august occasion was witnessed by farmers, agro-business gentry and other numerous stakeholders, in Oke Odan. L-R: Mr. Tiko Okoye, MD/CEO Fortis Microfinance and Mr. Kunle Abdul Chairman, Mowe Investmenrt Limited. This was the official launch of […]