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Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta The Federal Government has been urged to improve support for the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs), to enhance their capacity to produce enough food for the country.Vice- Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State, Prof. Kolawole Salako, who stated this at a Special Session for […]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development are partnering to convene a national workshop on the Commodity Alliance Forum (CAF). The CAF which was pioneered by the IFAD Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) in six states of Anambra, Benue, Ebonyi, Niger, Ogun and Taraba galvanized smallholder farmers […]
Vice President Jusuf Kalla has hinted that the Indonesian Government would not implement its rice import policy because rice stocks at the warehouses of Bulog, the state-owned logistics company, remain sufficient. “We have no plan to import rice now, because we do not meet any of the required conditions to do so. The rice stock […]
Gombe State Government has concluded plans to recruit 750 extension workers as part of efforts to boost the capacity of farmers in the state. The State’s Commissioner of Agriculture, Alhaji Dahiru Buba-Biri, disclosed this when he received the Country Director, Sasakawa Global 2000, Prof. Sani Ahmed-Miko, who paid him a courtesy visit in his office […]
No fewer than 140,000 farmers in Jigawa State were affected by the recent flood disaster which ravaged most of the farms located along the river banks in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Alhaji Kabiru Ali, disclosed this when he received the Country Director, Sasakawa Global 2000, Prof. Sani Ahmed-Miko who paid […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment with the Nigerian press over the coverage of his ‘go back to land agricultural revolution’ programme. Speaking at a dinner for youth political appointees at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday night, he said the press did not give the credit of the ongoing transformation in the agricultural sector […]
I am losing millions — Buba Galadima Farms are coming under attack by rice disease caused by blight. This is coming on the heels of the recent floods that destroyed rice farms across the country. Alhaji Buba Galadima being shown how the blight attacks the rice. Blight is a broad range of plant diseases […]
Specimen of the Gartech Eco-Pro Caging System Determined to provide enough eggs and chicken, to meet daily needs of the people, Gartech Poultry Equipment Company has developed Eco-Pro caging system to support profitable and comfortable poultry farming system in the country. Executive Director, Animal Care Consult Services, Dr. Opeyemi Agbato, who spoke on the importance […]
The Chairman of Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria (WFAN), Kebbi State chapter, Alhaji Abdullahi Saidu Argungu, has described wheat as a crop suffering from calculated tactic by certain people in high places to frustrate local production. Speaking on the politics of wheat production in the country with Daily Trust at the just concluded National Agricultural […]
Players in the tea sector have raised concern over the decline in the quality of Kenyan tea as produce from Rwanda gains popularity. The researchers, marketers and brokers blamed the situation to poor storage in factories, farmers under applying or over applying fertilisers and low plucking standards, among other reasons. The acting director of Tea […]
Beneficiaries of the training and empowerment programme on dry season farming with some of the organisers from the Agriculture and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), Ilorin, at the Igboho Town Hall after the training programme. A total of 168 farmers in Oyo state have benefited from an agricultural training and empowerment programme on dry season […]
Canadian canola carryout stocks at the end of the current marketing year (2018/19) will be considerably larger than an earlier estimate, according to updated supply/demand tables from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, released on Oct. 19. Agriculture Canada’s market analysis branch forecast canola ending stocks for 2018/19 at 2.500 million tonnes, which would be double the […]
In the current season, the key suppliers of Black Sea wheat – Russia and Ukraine – continue enjoying high export prices and strong global demand for their commodity. In view of a decrease in the 2018/19 world wheat crop and rather unfavorable conditions for planting winter crops for the 2019 harvest, some grain growers decide […]
Cassava The Federal Government has launched Cassava Seed Tracker (CST), to bring together stakeholders and end users of cassava across the world. Besides, the CST, first of its kind in the world will also help to reduce the cumbersome and arduous paper-based certification previously used and set the country on a global map as a market […]
Food wastage is not acceptable anywhere in the world considering resources required to grow foods. It is more so in Nigeria where millions of people go to bed hungry and starved. FEMI IBIROGBA, Head, Agro-Economy Desk, writes on how to preserve common perishable food crops, fruits and vegetables. Post-harvest losses could be described as a […]