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Price May Go As High As N17, 500 — Lawal As the new planting season commences across the country, farmers are raising concern over the dual challenges of access to fertilizer and quality seedlings. Feelers across the states indicate that the current rising cost of food crops, linked to inflation, could be worsened as the price […]
[ad_1] In this interview with the Executive Provost, Federal College of Animal Health & Production Technology, Moore Plantation, Ibadan, Dr Olatunde Owosibo, speaks on challenges faced by livestock farmers, how youths can be attracted to agriculture and why irrigation facilities and other farm infrastructure should be emplaced by state governments. FEMI IBIROGBA reports. The livestock […]
[ad_1] The World Food Program (WFP) says many countries affected by conflict, COVID-19 and climate change are experiencing record levels of hunger, threatening the lives of thousands of people. WFP officials say they fear many more people will die from hunger due to the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the pandemic itself. The pandemic has infected […]
The Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) has partnered with Vetsark Limited, a veterinary technology firm, to help reduce the losses livestock farmers in the country and in the continent suffer yearly to animal disease outbreak. Blessing Mene, Chief Executive Officer of Vetsark while speaking during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Lagos […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Malam Sabo Nanono said the Bank of Agriculture(BOA) was still in distress because no concrete effort was made to recapitalise it in spite of pronouncements in the past. Nanono disclosed this while speaking the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Abuja. He said it was disheartening to note that […]
Scientists have identified systematic meanders in the globe-circling northern jet stream that have caused simultaneous crop-damaging heat waves in widely separated breadbasket regions-a previously unquantified threat to global food production that, they say, could worsen with global warming. The research shows that certain kinds of waves in the atmospheric circulation can become amplified and then […]
Nigeria can make fortunes from dairy production, if cattle rearing is taken as a business and not culture. This is the submission of the Head, Operations of Development Practice Academy (DEPRA), Mr. Adebimpe Aderounmu, in this interview with South West Bureau Chief, Muyiwa Adeyemi. You held a summit on Dairy Enterprise Development recently before the […]
Despite the hue and cry that greeted the closure Nigeria’s land borderCoordinator of the 2019 Nigeria Poultry Farmers’ Exhibition, Mr Dele Toyin,says the border closure will enhance productivity and profit optimisation among poultry farmers. Toyin described the closure as the opportunity the farmers had been looking for, as it restricted the importation of poultry products,granting […]
Steady Decline in Cocoa Production: Ayodeji Calls for Introduction of Commodity Exchanges, Says National Emergency Intervention Needed as AFEX Discusses Cocoa as the Future for Nigeria In the past week, AFEX Commodities Exchange Limited (AFEX) started up conversations about the potential of cocoa as the future for export markets in Nigeria juxtaposing the insights on […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to block food importers’ requests for foreign currency in a bid to boost local agriculture in Africa’s most populous country. It is a continuation of a policy that the president began after coming to office in 2015, when he banned the use of foreign exchange […]
The Federal Ministry of Environment says 35 per cent of Nigeria’s landmass has been eroded by desertification with more areas still threatened. The Minister of Environment, Dr Mahmud Mohammed, spoke on Thursday at the 2019 commemoration of the World Desertification Day in Nangere, Yobe. According to Mahmud, the means of livelihood of 40 million Nigerians […]
In this report, Bayo Akinloye tells the sad story of farmers who produced cocoa, the mainstay of the economy of South-west Nigeria in the past, but have now abandoned the crop for a more rewarding but illegal one, cannabis His telephone rang only twice before he picked it. His muffled voice indicated that he was […]
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has “let the cat let the cat out of the bag” as he revealed the Federal Government’s plan in conjunction with the Government of the Netherlands towards improving seeds/seedlings to upscale food production in the country. These plans were disclosed by the minister during a […]
The current cries for immediate financial and mechanical intervention from Nigeria’s agricultural sect has received some sort of relief as Access Bank Plc recently wood Nigerians and corporate organisations to leverage the bank’s financial support and solutions to grow their agricultural businesses in the country. While engaging participants present at the Agro-Food Nigeria exhibition in […]
Good news to Nigerians as Federal Government has reportedly enpowered farmers and millers in different regions of the nation with a staggering number of 300 rice mills. Following this excitement of this social responsibility act made by the Federal government, Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has fuelled the ecstatic state […]