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The Central Bank of Nigeria, through its Borrowers Program, distributed pesticides and fertilizers to approximately 227 rice farmers in the state of Beyls.The chairman of the government of the Nigerian rice farmers association, Ezikel Ogbanko, who yesterday reported this during the flag of the wind season in Jenago, thanked the federal government for initiating a […]
A drought that singed parts of Canada’s prairies will crimp wheat and canola output more than expected by analysts, government data showed, sending crop futures to one-week highs. Parts of Canada, one of the world’s top wheat exporters and the top canola producer, suffered from lower-than-average precipitation and high temperatures, eroding yields, the government said. […]
US Ambassador Pushes IITA Youth Agripreneurs To Create Jobs For African Youths: On 28 August, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency, Stuart Symington, accompanied by Benjamin Williams, Political and Economic Officer from the office of the US Consulate General, paid a courtesy visit to IITA to meet the IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) and learn […]
A WET end to winter has firmed the chances of a Statewide grain harvest that will go down in the record books, pumping more than $6 billion into the WA economy. On the first day of spring yesterday, WA Farmers president Tony York said crops were powering ahead thanks to more good rainfall across much […]
Vice Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, head of the Armenia-Georgia parliamentary friendship group, Eduard Sharmazanov, held phone talks with his Georgian counterpart George Volski. The sides discussed Armenian-Georgian inter-parliamentary relations, the forthcoming visits of the head of the Georgian parliament to Armenia, as well as Armenian delegation’s upcoming visit to Tbilisi, Armenian Parliament’s press service […]
The Headquarters of the Ogun Customs Administration of Nigeria intercepted 6,194 smuggled sacks of rice, 33 vehicles and other contraband worth more than 382 million dollars. USA. The seizures also included 395 barrels of vegetable oil (25 liters each), 340 barrels of gasoline, 1954 pairs of knives and seven bales of second-hand clothing. NCS National […]
The agriculture minister says technology transfer from China, Taiwan and Japan will help to achieve this. Malaysia targets to achieve 80% self-sufficiency in rice by 2022, moving up from the current 70%, said Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Salahuddin Ayub. He said efforts were being made in that direction, such as increasing the rice variants […]
Fish farming, no doubt, is a lucrative venture with ever growing market within Nigeria and a greatly untapped market internationally. I have been in the business of raising fishes for some time now, and I would like to share my little knowledge on the easiest way someone with little capital can engage in profitable fish […]
We can’t impose SRP on rice and fish, DTI tells solons Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol bared this Wednesday after attending an emergency meeting with the members of the NFA Council, the highest policy-making body of the NFA, regarding the rice smuggling and supply issues in Zambasulta. The Price of rice in these areas has shot […]
India has extended the deadline for export of 2 million tonnes sugar by three months to December. It is reported by Reuters. The world’s second-biggest sugar producer has been trying to reduce sugar stocks after harvesting a record crop. India’s sugar production is expected to jump by almost a tenth from the current year to […]
Vietnam has imported nearly 88,000 tonnes of chicken meat, worth about USD 84 million within the first half of the year. This represents about 72% of last year’s total imports. The top three chicken export markets to Vietnam are the US, Brazil and Korea. Of this, more than 50% was from the US. The imported […]
A new report on the future of the US grain industry says it must increase exports to workdown stocks and improve the prospect of higher prices. The Rabobank corn baseline outlook has changed little from a year ago, however, with relatively flat demand and ending stocks remaining historically high, the average received farm price has […]
On August 28, Egypt purchased 350 KMT of milling wheat from Russia & Ukraine to be delivered on October 11 – 20, 2018 at an average price of USD 241.23/MT C&F. The price in the previous tender equaled USD 249.10/MT C&F, reports UkrAgroConsult. The purchase included the following: Quantity, KMT Origin Shipper FOB ($) Freight […]
Malaysia’s palm oil output is expected to drop to 19.8 million tonnes in 2018 as compared to 19.92 million tonnes recorded in 2017 due to lower yields, said Oil World executive director Thomas Mielke. “Yield trend is declining. There was a strong recovery seen in production last year and the first four to five months […]
Rice imports nosedived in the past two months and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicted total import would dip to 6 lakh tonnes in 2018-19 due to higher production in boro season and reinstatement of import tariff. The private and public sectors imported 38.92 lakh tonnes of rice in July-June of 2017-18, the highest […]