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[FILE PHOTO] Tractor The Federal Government has concluded plans to import more tractors that will help its plans for agricultural growth in the country. The government has also commenced the training of 30 youths on tractor operations and maintenance. According to Dr Yomi Kasali, who is the Executive Director of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), […]
Kebbi. Photo: BBC Castor seeds production is to receive a boost with the delivery of 500kg of hybrid seeds to Kebbi State farmers by the Raw Materials Research and Development Council, Abuja. Receiving the consignment in Birnin Kebbi, the State Secretary of the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), Abubakar Bagudu Kalgo, commended the […]
[FILE PHOTO] A tomato processing plant in Nigeria The Tomato Processors’ Association of Nigeria has called for a review of the government’s new policy on effective implementation of self-sufficiency in production and local processing of fresh tomatoes into paste across the country. “There have not been any effect on the new policy as the market is continually flooded […]
Palm oil. Photo: GHH headlines Small-scale palm oil farmers from Africa and Asia have kicked against Europe’s never-ending anti-palm oil campaign. The farmers, also known as Farmers Unite, launched the Nigeria-based Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA), which will “be dedicated to fighting dangerous campaigns by Western politicians, the political elite, the media, uncompetitive oilseed […]
[FILE PHOTO] Fall Armyworms The Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Suffyan Koroma, has said that Army worms have caused agricultural damage worth $268 million (N76.48 billion). Suffyan disclosed this on Wednesday in a FAO Situation Report of November, 2018, released in Maiduguri. “Since first observed in 2016, the pest has caused […]
People load their possessions in a car as they evacuate the Ganaropp village in the Barikin Ladi area near Jos on June 27, 2018. Plateau State in Nigeria has seen days of violence where more than 200 people have been killed in clashes between Berom farmers and Fulani herders, Nigeria is facing an escalation in […]
ActionAid Country Director, Ojobo Atuluku The Justice, Development and Peace Centre (JDPC), Ondo State chapter, has faulted the poor priority given to agricultural extension services in the state, warning that it will serve as an obstacle to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in 2030. The JDPC Director, Rev Fr. Damian Adesegha, said this […]
Published on 14.11.2018 at 15h21 by APA News The National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) says that Nigeria has entrenched a mining roadmap that is focusing on iron ore, gold, bitumen, coal, limestone, lead and zinc and barite.The association said that the roadmap was conceived to […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, FAO, on Wednesday released its situation report for November 2018, disclosing that an estimated one million and five hundred thousand (1.5 million) households are to be affected by the Fall Army Worm, FAW across some states in the country. The report, which was made available to […]
Cocoa Some young people, especially graduates, see cocoa farming as a poorly rewarding business meant for only the aged people who have resigned to fate. They think farmers, and by extension cocoa producers, have nothing else to show for their labour and drudgery except a beggarly existence. These perceptions are not only false but also […]
Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, on Wednesday, said the ministry had started the process of establishing Songhai model of agriculture to increase food production and job creation. Adamu, who said this at the ongoing Nigeria Media Water Week in Abuja, noted that this was also in line with the Federal Government’s Economic […]
Prof. Olubunmi Omotesho, University of Ilorin, on Tuesday said the problems of agriculture in Nigeria and Africa could be attributed mainly to climate change. Omotesho made this known at a two-day Policy Dialogue on Crop/Livestock Integration, organised by Synergos Nigeria, in collaboration with other stakeholders in Abuja. He said that climate change, which resulted in […]
Recently, Africa Investments, organisers of African round trips across different countries in Africa, chooses Nigeria as one of it’s locations for investment during the 2018 edition of the event. From Left: Robyn Scott – Principal Of African Investments, Abimbola Olufore – CEO Wycliffe Energy, Oladeji Olawale – M.D Naphtali Ltd, Wofai Samuel – Keynote Speaker […]
Solar panels In line with ongoing efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, the Food andAgriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has commissioned solar-powered boreholes in three (3) arid states of Northern Nigeria, to boost access to water for domestic use and agricultural practice. The intervention is provided through the Action Against Desertification […]
The federal government says it is considering fixing a guaranteed minimum price for agricultural produce to reduce the fluctuating and high cost of commodities. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between tractor companies and Agriculture Mechanisation Company. […]