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Cote D’Ivoire, Africa’s largest cocoa producer, has sent a delegation to Nigeria to understudy the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Youth Agripreneur (IYA) Model, as part of efforts to revamp its agriculture and address its growing youth unemployment. The 10-man delegation was led by Karitia Caulibaly, Deputy Director of Cabinet, Ministry of Youth […]
The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Professor Kolawole Salako, has revealed that the university has been translating theories into practical agricultural businesses to effectively realise its mandate of training the highest level of manpower for the all-important agricultural sector. The need to establish a town and gown relationship and correct […]
Adepoju Dr Adeshola Adepoju, Director-General of Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN), in this interview, speaks with FEMI IBIROGBA, Head, Agro-Economy Desk, on environment-friendly agricultural practices, ways to stem unbridled charcoal production, and sustainable techniques of intercropping arable crops with economic trees. Contributions to sustainable and environment-friendly agriculture?Let me start by saying that issues are […]
Photographer: Jose Cendon/Bloomberg • To create 550,000 jobs • To increase revenue by N4.353 trillion • To increase output from 230,000 to 714,000mt The Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN) has again reiterated its 10-year agenda for the cocoa industry along the value chains. The agenda includes institutionalisation of cocoa economy finance products and services; maintaining […]
Cote d’Ivoire, Africa’s largest cocoa producer, has sent a delegation to Nigeria to understudy the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture’s (IITA) Youth Agripreneur (IYA) model as part of efforts to revamp its agriculture and address its growing youth unemployment, IITA has said. The 10-man delegation understudying the IYA model was led by Karitia Caulibaly, Deputy […]
Baba-Ari The Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) will begin the agricultural commodity exchange in the next two months, as revealed by Mrs Zaheera Baba-Ari, its Managing Director. A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products. Farmers can sell their farm products immediately or exchange them for a certificate […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria says the volume of rice importation into Nigeria (in metric tonnes) has declined drastically in 2018, judging by figures obtained from various official sources.Isaac Okorafor, Director, Corporate Communications at the CBN, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.Okorafor said figures obtained from India and Thailand, dominant rice […]
The Federal Government has dismissed reports by the United States Department of Agriculture World Market and Trade indicating an increase in the importation of rice into the country and decline in local production in 2018.The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, dismissed the report when he addressed State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.The […]
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said President Muhammadu Buhari and his Administration lied on claims that rice production had improved since coming into office in 2015. Abubakar said this in a statement by the Atiku Presidential Campaign Office. The statement reads: On several occasions, the […]
The federal government has denied a United States Department of Agriculture World Markets and Trade Report that Nigeria imported three million metric tonnes of rice in 2018. This was disclosed by the minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed to State House correspondents yesterday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Dismissing the report as fake news, […]
Nasarawa farmers have said that their support for candidates seeking elective positions in 2019 will be determined by their programmes for the agricultural sector. The farmers, under the aegis of Association of Small Scale Agro Producers in Nigeria (ASSAPIN), said that they would subject every candidate’s agenda to a thorough screening to determine their commitment […]
Country Manager, HarvestPlus Nigeria, Paul Ilona To boost Federal Government’s food security drive, the Country Manager, HarvestPlus Nigeria, Paul Ilona, has called for more investment in local food production to tackle malnutrition, which also affects economic development. He noted that Nigeria is moving at a slow pace in terms of economic development due to the […]
As part of the efforts to reduce monumental post-harvest losses in the agricultural sector, the Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI) has unfolded an improved multi-purpose solar dryer it calls multi-crop dryer. Dr Olayemi Folorunsho, Head of the Engineering Research of the institute, explained that the solar dryer is made of transparent acrylic polythene materials […]
Phorbee Dr (Mrs) Olapeju Phorbee is the Country Manager of the International Potato Centre and Senior Country Coordinator of Building Nutritious Food Basket in Nigeria. She explains to Head, Agro-Economy Desk, FEMI IBIROGBA that crops-based approach to tackling malnutrition has been complementing other approaches. She clarifies that bio-fortified foods being promoted in Nigeria and other […]
Zobo plant The Coordinating Director of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr Vincent Isegbe, has disclosed plans by the Federal Government to resume the export of hibiscus (zobo leaves) to Mexico. Dr Isegbe disclosed this during a visit to the agency by the Mexican Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Marco Antonio Garcia Blanco, at the […]