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Matured Moringa seeds The saying that agriculture is profitable and sustainable is neither rhetoric nor a cacophony. Careful inward looking and proactive efforts in the agricultural sector truly have the potentialities. Income generation, employment creation and poverty alleviation potential of the sector are real considering the foreign exchange earnings from cash crops such as cocoa, […]
Some Asian flour mills are looking to lock in wheat supplies until well into the middle of 2019, potentially shaking off a years-long trend for hand-to-mouth buying as global output is set to drop for the first time in six years. World wheat supplies are forecast to tighten in the second quarter of 2019 as […]
One of the multi-billion naira Federal Government projects that is progressively going down from underutilization, lack of maintenance and upgrade is the Gurara Irrigation Scheme located in Azara-Jere in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The project, which was commissioned less than five years ago, is now becoming a shadow of its original vision. […]
An expert, Mr Ademuwagun Johnson, says cultivation of mushroom is a money-spinner in Nigeria. Johnson, who is the co-owner of A & A Integrated Farms, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said that most people were yet to explore its potential. He expressed regrets that people have not explored the […]
…Farmers’ rush for pesticides hikes prices There has been massive cultivation of beans, also known as cowpea, in Katsina State this year. This is in contrast to what was obtainable in the state in the past years. Our correspondent in the state reports that in the past 10 years, farmers only planted the crop […]
Hordes of Quela birds coming from Baturiya wet land in Guri have destroyed a number of rice farms in Auyo Local Government Area of Jigawa State. This is in addition to the menace of a rice pest popularly known as ‘blight,’ that was already destroying rice farms in the area. Many rice farms in the […]
Brazil’s environment and agriculture ministers have criticized President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s plans to merge their departments, saying it would hurt the country’s agenda on both fronts. Bolsonaro has pledged to roughly halve the number of existing ministries in an effort to reduce bureaucracy and government bloat. He also vowed to merge the planning, finance and industry […]
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released details about the ongoing and expanding feed and food grain trade with Columbia Wednesday [October 24] in a Foreign Agricultural Service report. The US is anticipated to be the primary source for some feed grains imported by Columbia, including corn, in the 2018/19 marketing year (MY), said the team who […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed satisfaction with the achievement recorded in the country’s Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development headed by Dr. Audu Ogbeh, the honourable Minister. President Buhari stated this while playing host to some young political appointees to a dinner at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Wednesday night. The President said his grouse however […]
Egyptian state grain buyer GASC has announced its latest wheat tender for December 11-20 shipment, sources told Agricensus Thursday. It is seeking cargos between 55,000 mt and 60,000 mt of milling wheat, with the tender to close on Friday. In its previous tender, closed October 4, GASC bought three 60,000-mt cargoes of Russian wheat including […]
The Upper Niger River Basin Development Authority is set to commence the second phase of Songhai farm in Minna, Niger State. The Managing Director of the agency, Professor Mohammed Ali disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Minna on Wednesday. Professor Mohammed said the goals of introducing the Songhai farm model by the Basin […]
Sugar, it’s so quintessentially Cuban that even a young, machete-wielding Fidel Castro used to hack away at the cane stalks vital to the Caribbean island’s economy. Now, the long-time world leader in sugar production is importing the stuff for the first time, and in large amounts, from France after another bad harvest. Sugar used to […]
The Egyptian state buyer GASC purchased 30 KMT of sunflower oil and 26 KMT soybean oil in a tender held on October 24, 2018, reports UkrAgroConsult. According to market participants, the sunflower oil was bought from Glencore (30 KMT at a price of USD 702/MTm) and the soybean oil was bought from Watanya/Cargill (26 KMT […]
Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, says government is set to revitalise agriculture extension services in the country. The minister spoke in Abuja during the FGN/IFAD Assisted Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), Commodity Alliance Forum 2018 (CAF), with the theme “Partnership for enhancing productivity and marketing for sustainable […]