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Last week, in Sheda, Abuja, the National Council for Agricultural Seeds (NASC) organized the 2018 Seed Seed Fair and Farmers Field Day, apparently to demonstrate what it has achieved since 2018 is gradually ending. NASC also used this event to officially launch its first molecular seed testing laboratory for the country. Since 2016, Fera is […]
China’s feed regulator on Tuesday proposed to cut the minimum threshold for coarse protein content in pig and poultry feed by 3%, which, if agreed next week, could cut the nation’s demand for soybeans by 10 million mt this marketing year. The state-approved China Feed Industry Association (CFIA) released two documents on Tuesday proposing a […]
… Be careful with middlemen, farmers warn The state of Sokoto has begun collecting millet calling for farmers to avoid middle men, who tend to buy large quantities from them only to accumulate grain and sell at a later time at exorbitant rates. Visiting certain areas of the state shows that the millet harvest continues […]
Stevia is a sweetener and sugar substitute extracted from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana, a native of Brazil and Paraguay. Dr. Ibrahim Husaini Dogo, Director General of the Council for Raw Material Research and Research (RMRDC), in this interview explained why Nigeria should fully adopt its production for the production of bio-sugar. […]
This summer’s drought has led to a significant drop of total EU cereal production, estimated at 8% below the last five-year average. This is just one of the findings of the latest short-term outlook report, published on October 3 by the European Commission. The report highlights that EU total cereal production for 2018 is expected […]
President Donald Trump has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to expand sales of corn ethanol, a senior White House official said on Monday, delivering a gift to farm state Republicans a month before the midterm elections. The move ends months of bitter behind-the-scenes fighting between corn backers and the oil industry over Trump’s calls to […]
Although barley export price increased in the 2017/18 season, global imports of the commodity closed this past season above expectations of many market experts. Another drop in the world’s crop in 2017 did not prevent major suppliers from expanding barley shipments by 5% against the previous season, UkrAgroConsult’s analysts note. Noteworthy is that Russia became […]
But Việt Nam has imported wheat for many decades from these countries and there has not been an adverse impact on the environment, and other countries such as Thailand and Malaysia, big importers of US wheat, have not banned it either, Chi said. There has been no research on the impacts of the weed on […]
WHEAT farmers in Manicaland have started harvesting the crop before the onset of the rainy season. Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) provincial manager, Mr Daniel Mungazi, said most of the wheat crop in the province was ready for harvesting. “The early crop is under harvesting on commercial farms ahead of the early rains which might affect […]
Rice farmers Author Shuaibu Tatu The Thai Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Wattana Kunvance, said his country would provide production technical knowledge for rice farmers in Kebbi. Kunwangse gave confidence on Friday when he made a kind appeal to the emir of Argung, Alhaji Samayla Meere, in Argung. “The purpose of my visit to Kebbi State […]
The Philippines will allow major rice retailers to import up to 350,000 tons of the grain, its agriculture minister said on Monday, potentially bringing the country’s total purchases this year to 2.4 million tons, the second highest on record. The Philippines, which buys rice from neighbors Vietnam and Thailand, is aggressively boosting purchases to replenish […]
The 2018 UK wheat crop is down 5.1% on last year, while barley production fell by 7.9%, according to provisional Defra figures. It is estimated that the total wheat crop is just under 14.1m tonnes, below the five-year average for 2013-2017 of 14.8m tonnes. The total barley crop is forecast to be 6.6m tonnes, again […]
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri The federal government has asked states and local governments to invest at least five percent of their budget in agriculture to achieve zero hunger by 2030. Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, appealed to a symposium to celebrate World Food Day […]
The government of Abiola Adjimoby of the state of Oyo called on agricultural research institutes and farmers in the state to embark on demand-based projects, depending on the specific needs of their consumers. He called for an open state agricultural investment summit at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (ITA), Ibadan. Summit theme –Transformation of […]
Egypt’s need of sugar increases annually by 50,000 tons because of the population, Head of Sugar Division at the Federation of Industries Hassan Fendi said. Fendi clarified that this demand requires the establishment of a complete sugar industry line every three years to produce 150,000 tons annually to fill the current and future gap. The […]