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President-General, Chief Nwokoro (third from left), performing the ground-breaking ceremony; Mrs Ejekam, Dufil Prima Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, (third from right) and other community and company representatives at the ceremony at Item, Abia State A 1040-hectare oil palm farm has been given by Amokwe and Okai villages of Item in Bende local government area to Dufil Prima […]
Kano The Kano State government has supported the state chapter of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) with N132 million to enable it take delivery of the 44 tractors it ordered recently from India. The state AFAN chairman, Alhaji Faruk Rabi’u, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in […]
The Country Coordinator of Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology, Dr Rose Gidado, has debunked claims by some non-governmental organisations that genetically modified beans are harmful to humans. In a statement in Abuja, Gidado said that the conspiracy claims were targeted at discrediting a 10-year research work carried out by scientists at the Institute of […]
Directly Above Shot Of Roasted Coffee Beans In Cup And On Table Despite the rising demand for coffee globally, Nigerian farmers seem not to be tapping the potential as the produce has seen a significant dip in both production and export. Coffee is a tropical plant, which comes in two main types: Robusta and Arabica. […]
As the nation enters 2019, the National President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) Architect Kabiru Ibrahim expressed hope for a better agribusiness environment. In this interview with Daily Trust, he said the best way to boost the sector is to promote and patronize locally- produced products through “limited protectionism” among other things. Excerpts: […]
Farmers in Benue State have identified major problems which militated against their occupation in 2018 to include inaccessibility to improved seeds as well as inability to access funding among others. Some of the farmers, however, expressed optimism that the year 2019 would provide government opportunity to tackle such issues that have kept the country behind […]
The Adamawa/Taraba Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has distributed a total of 3,131 bags of rice as relief material to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in 2018 in Adamawa State. The Area Comptroller, Mr Kamardeen Olumoh, at a press conference said the bags of rice were intercepted from smugglers in the state and […]
Wheat farmers said one of the major hurdles they experienced in 2018 was their inability to find a comfortable market for their product- a situation that has affected them drastically. The situation in Sokoto shows that wheat farmers are lamenting over lack of market and patronage. According to them, they lack large-scale buyers referred to […]
Tilapia fish being harvested at the Ikere Gorge Dam, Iseyin, Oyo State. The Federal Government has been urged to place outright ban on the importation of tilapia, to protect fish farmers and ensure the growth of the aquaculture industry. Stakeholders in the aquaculture industry who made the appeal during a meeting with members of the […]
Following the rising concern on the influx of processed food in the system; nutrition experts have raised alarm on the growing rate of child obesity, considered another form of malnutrition. The post Experts raise alarm over influx of processed food appeared first on – Nigeria and World News. Source link
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Professor Kolawole Salako has expressed confidence that programmes under the Centre for Agricultural Development and Sustainable Environment (CEADESE), would be sustained and given necessary support by the university. Salako gave the assurance at the meeting of the principal officers with the International […]
India’s soymeal exports are expected to have declined 24% on month to around 200,000 tn in December, primarily due to appreciation in the rupee against the dollar, an official with The Soybean Processors Association of India said today. “We were expecting exports of around 300,000 tn in December but the demand (for Indian soymeal) fell last […]
Cargill saw its net earnings drop by 20% in its second quarter, partly due to lower hog volumes in China and challenges in the US dairy and poultry industries. The Minnesota-headquartered company recorded net earnings of $741 million for the three months ended 30 November 2018. Second-quarter revenues decreased 4% to $28 billion as the […]
INDIA has extended its ban on the import of peas which includes Australia’s Kaspa peas. The Government of India gazette reports that India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has extended bans on the import of peas a further three months until the end of March 2019. One commentator said it appeared the government did not […]
CME Group, a worldwide derivatives marketplace, on Jan. 3 reported that its annual average daily volume (ADV) for agricultural commodities in 2018 increased 9% over the previous year, rising from 1.35 million contracts to a record 1.48 million. For December 2018, ADV for agricultural commodities averaged 1 million contracts, down 5% from December 2017. Corn […]