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The Value Chain Development Programme of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD-VCDP) has injected 68.9 million U.S. dollars into the Nigerian economy. Ms. Mariatu Kamara, IFAD Programme Officer, disclosed this in Abuja at the 2018 National Commodity Alliance Forum (CAF). She said that the engagement of private-sector players by IFAD-VCDP through the CAF initiative […]
India and Afghanistan are pushing ahead with plans to open a new transportation corridor between the two countries via Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar despite US sanctions. New Delhi sees the port crucial to its connectivity ambitions, including access to CIS countries – a regional organization of 10 post-Soviet republics in Eurasia. For landlocked Afghanistan, […]
Bangladesh’s state tender to purchase and import 50,000 tonnes of wheat on Wednesday drew a lowest offer from trading house Swiss Singapore Overseas of $291.93 a tonne CIF liner out, officials at the state grains buyer said. Three other trading houses competed for the tender from Bangladesh’s Directorate General of Food. No purchase has yet […]
Wheat, a major staple food and cash crop of the country, would be cultivated over 8,781.6 thousand hectares of land across crop producing areas of the country during Rabi season 2018-19 in order to produce about 25.572 million tons of grains for fulfilling the domestic requirements as well as to exports. In this regard, all […]
The imports of edible oil into the country like soyabean and palm during first quarter of financial year 2018-19 reduced by 70.47 percent and 4.82 percent respectively as compared the corresponding period of last year. During the period from July-September, 2018 import of soyabean oil into the country decreased by 70.47 percent and it was […]
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) says any new trade agreement involving the United States and the United Kingdom or the European Union must include the elimination of tariff and non-tariff trade barriers on pork Last week, on the heels of the successful conclusion of negotiations aimed at modernising trade agreements with Canada and Mexico […]
Croatia’s 2018 wheat output rose 6.3% year-on-year, reaching 725,000 tonnes, the country’s statistical office said on Wednesday, citing preliminary data. The wheat yield in 2018 amounted to 5.4 tonnes per harvested hectare, the statistical office said in a statement. The results were based on data collected by September 15. The output of rapeseed rose by […]
Wheat, a major staple food and cash crop of the country, would be cultivated over 8,781.6 thousand hectares of land across crop producing areas of the country during Rabi season 2018-19 in order to produce about 25.572 million tons of grains for fulfilling the domestic requirements as well as to exports. In this regard, all […]
WORLD wheat production estimates have dropped significantly this season, with the United States Department of Agriculture October forecast for 2018-19 a mere 730.92 million tonnes. That’s a 2.15 per cent drop since the May figure of 747 million tonnes. The report, released earlier this month, put estimated world wheat ending stocks at 260.18 million tonnes, […]
Ereme displaying a rabbit The Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) has demonstrated that youths, women and retirees can make millions of naira practicing low-capital agriculture with its simple, innovative but profitable agro-allied enterprise prototypes. The model enterprises include cane rat, rabbit and snail farming, with simple housing, cost-effective feeds and sustainable returns on investments […]
An official says the Iranian government needs no more wheat imports thanks to favorable crop harvest and procurement from local farmers at a time of diminishing grain stocks around the world. Largely self-sufficient in wheat a decade ago, Iran emerged as one of the world’s biggest importers a few years ago but a raft of […]
Wide-ranging reforms are needed to make Nigeria’s economy more sustainable and resilient, a World Bank Consultant, Prof. Abel Ogunwale, has said. Ogunwale said there was a need to reform the agricultural sector to ensure poverty reduction and greater food security. According to him, the agricultural sector is an important part of the economy and provides […]
Rice Farm Professionals and stakeholders in the agricultural sector have called on other states in the country to emulate the Kebbi State government, which has been working the talking by consistently allocating over 10 per cent of the state budget to the sector since 2015. The Coordinator of Oxfam International (an international confederation of 20 Non-Governmental Organisations […]
Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry Lead paper presenters at the 2018 agricultural symposium organised by the agricultural group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry have advocated scaling up of risk mitigation through insurance, funding and industrialisation of agriculture as essentials of food security as the population growth in the country increases. Chairman […]
The Victims Support Fund (VSF) has begun distributing livestock to 4,000 households affected by insurgency in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe in efforts to assure food security and livelihood. The Executive Director VSF, Prof. Sunday Ochoche, flagged off the distribution in Konduga, Borno, where 400 households got three female Borno Brown goats and a male alongside […]