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Chinese scientists have developed a smart pesticide that, once in the soil, is controllable and recyclable. A team led by Wu Zhengyan, professor with the Technical Biology Institute, under Hefei Institute of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, used diatomite, iron magnesium oxide and chitosan to make a compound that can be activated by changes […]
BEIJING, Sept 13 (Reuters) – China plans to roll out the use of ethanol in gasoline nationally by 2020, state media reported on Wednesday citing a government document, as Beijing intensifies its push to boost industrial demand for corn and clean up choking smog. It’s the first time the government has set a targeted timeline […]
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, said on Monday that the Buhari administration spent N1.3 trillion on capital projects in 2016, the highest in the history of the country. Mr. Osinbajo disclosed this at a plenary of the 2017 Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, national conference in Lagos with the theme: “African Business: Penetrating Through Institution Building.” […]
If farmers want to avoid a crisis from overproduction of corn, they and consumers need to urge fuel sellers to offer higher blends of ethanol. That’s one message a group of biofuels experts offered at the 2017 Iowa Ag Summit in Des Moines on August 5. “Every gallon we expand we’re taking away gallons from […]
Europe is roiling under toxic eggs scare making countries pull eggs from the shelves and Netherlands poised to cull millions of chickens. Britain said 20,000 of the contaminated eggs have already been sold and consumed, according to the country’s Food Standards Agency. The eggs were imported between March and June, it said. The scare began […]
The president, African Development Bank, AFDB, Mr. Akinwunmi Adeshina, in his opening remarks at IITA’s golden jubilee celebration on Monday, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital rated the aesthetic environment of the institute as second to none globally. His words: “My wife and I, and the African Development Bank, congratulate IITA on its 50th anniversary. […]
Nasarawa state House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling on Governor Umaru Tanko Almakura to arrest, prosecute and relieve any government official found culpable in diverting fertilizer meant for farmers in the state. Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, the speaker of the House made the call in Lafia after the chairman, House committee on Agriculture, […]
Two South African innovators in the agriculture industry, Reel Gardening and Meat Naturally, will on Wednesday battle it out against 48 other agripreneurs for the title of Agripreneur of the Year. As part of agriculture innovation hub Future Agro Challenge’s (FAC’s) Global Championships, held in collaboration with the Securing Water for Food Grand Challenge, in […]
South Africa’s economy contracted 0.3 percent quarter-on-quarter in the final three months of last year as mining and manufacturing output shrank, the statistics agency said on Tuesday, putting credit ratings at risk. Africa’s most industrialised economy faces the risk of being downgraded to junk status owing to weak economic growth after it got a reprieve […]
The Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Education, Professor Manuel Heitor has indicated the interest of Portuguese government to partner with the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) to expand technologies with a view to enhancing tropical agriculture and food security in Nigeria. Professor Heitor made this known, while leading a team of experts in different […]
A strain of bird flu has been detected in a commercial chicken breeder flock in Tennessee’s Lincoln County and the 73,500 birds will be culled to prevent the virus from entering the food system, U.S. and state agriculture officials said on Sunday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this represented the first confirmed case of […]
Agriculture, agribusiness, and agro-industries will dominate the knowledge events of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group scheduled to take place from May 22-26 in Ahmedabad, in India’s Gujarat State. The central theme of the Annual Meetings, “Transforming Agriculture for Wealth Creation in Africa,” underscores the critical importance of agriculture in the […]
President Donald Trump picked former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to be his agriculture secretary six weeks ago, but the administration still hasn’t formally provided the Senate with the paperwork for the nomination. The delay is frustrating farm-state senators, who represent many of the core voters responsible for helping elect Trump. The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and […]
Some 153 million people, representing about 26 per cent of the population above 15 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa, suffered from severe food insecurity in 2014-15, according to a new FAO report. The second edition of the Regional Overview of Food Insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa (2016) underscores how severe food insecurity and poverty pose […]
AGRIinsight will start work later this month in Tanzania. The assignment focuses on the support of an agribusiness investment agency based in Dar es Salaam. AGRIinsight will provide an online “client space” where relevant information is organized, deposited in various forms and imagery, to which access is facilitated to advance the agency’s objectives. AGRIinsight will […]