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[ad_1] By Daniels Ekugo Stallion Motors in Nigeria has braced up for the coronavirus pandemic as they have donated tons of free rice and fish to the COVID-19 hospitals in Lagos State with the Stallion Group Team. The selfless people working in the frontline have risked their lives to ensure that aid reaches where it […]
[ad_1] Makurdi—A 25-year-old farmer, John Chinter, was reportedly killed by suspected armed herdsmen that invaded Tse Igba community in Mbabai council ward of Benue state, yesterday morning. It was gathered that the deceased before his untimely death was a member of IFAD-VCDP supported farmers’ cooperative society in the community. A member of the cooperative, who […]
[ad_1] IBM is giving Indian farmers and agritech startups the chance to use its weather monitoring tools for free during the country’s strict Covid-19 lockdown. The US tech firm is offering a 30-day free trial of its Operations Dashboard – developed by its subsidiary, The Weather Company – to assist smallholders and supply chain-focused startups […]
[ad_1] Setting perspectives at a recent stakeholders’ forum, President of the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), Dr. Agnes Kalibata noted that the economies of many African countries are growing faster than anywhere else in the world – and agriculture, which accounts for a third of Africa’s GDP, is poised to be the […]
[ad_1] LAGOS – As the Coronavirus pandemic continue to ravage the world, stakeholders in the agricultural sector have lauded the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), for its various initiatives towards agriculture. They said that some of these initiatives such as the import restriction and emphasis on the home-grown foods, driven by the CBN on behalf […]
[ad_1] The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kano/Jigawa Command, has seized smuggled rice and beans worth over N12.7 million in Kano State. Mr Isa Danbaba, the Pubic Relations Officer of the command, made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday in Kano. “In spite of the outbreak of Coronavirus and the subsequent measures put in place […]
[ad_1] Residents of Odighi, a town in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State are presently living in fear following the alleged beheading of two people by suspected herdsmen on their way from the farm. The residents of the agrarian community expressed sadness over the incessant attacks on members of the community in […]
[ad_1] A frontline aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Edo state, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu ahead 2020 governorship election yesterday condemned the level of insecurity in the state and streak of attacks on farmers in rural communities across the state which led to the killing of two farmers in Odighi, Ovia North-East local government area […]
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Jeff Caldwell is content marketing manager at Lessing-Flynn, a marketing and advertising agency based in Des Moines, US. Previously, he was editor of Successful Farming and the High Plains Journal. The views expressed in this article are personal. “Normal” life as we know it has been severely disrupted as the novel coronavirus […]
[ad_1] Agribusiness giants Cargill and Agrocorp have completed a groundbreaking grain deal that provides a taster of how cross-border food commodity trading could become much faster and more frictionless in the future. Tapping into Hyperledger Fabric – an open-source blockchain technology – US-based Cargill was able to complete the sale of a consignment of wheat […]
[ad_1] As rain-fed farming activities begins in some parts of the country, there is mounting concern over input supply due to continued lockdown over the outbreak of coronavirus. Access to farm inputs such as agrochemicals, certified seeds, fertiliser is now difficult as security agencies enforce government shutdown of all business premises including those selling […]
[ad_1] Gaston Marquevich is thankful his fresh produce operation Generation Farms in Florida and Georgia has always sold into grocery stores. While he’s faced plenty of other complications relating to the Covid-19 pandemic, finding a client in demand has not been one of them. “Lots of growers that have focused on foodservice are having a […]
[ad_1] IBADAN- Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, has signed the Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA) Bill into law. A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that the signing ceremony took place at the Government House, Agodi, Ibadan, the state capital. Speaking shortly after signing the […]
[ad_1] The Federal Government has reduced the price of NPK fertilizer from N5,500 to N5,000 per 50kg bag, Governor Muhamad Badaru of Jigawa, who is the Chairman, Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI), has announced Mr Badaru told journalists on Wednesday in Dutse that the gesture was part of palliatives introduced by the Federal Government to cushion […]
[ad_1] A Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Vietnam has reported 262 COVID-19 cases and no deaths so far, but as a result of a 15-day […]