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Food grain production in the country in 2017-18 crop year will be a record 284.83 million tonnes as per the fourth advanced estimates issued by the Agriculture Ministry on Tuesday. Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said rice output would be 112.91 million tonnes and that of wheat 99.70 million tonnes. “I am happy to […]
WHEAT. During August 16-22, CBOT wheat prices lost 1.16%, reports UkrAgroConsult. The main bearish factors were as follows: – rains in the US winter wheat producing regions before the sowing season; – less fears about Russian grain export restrictions; – good spring wheat conditions in the USA. The share of spring wheat in good and […]
According to the Statistics Committee under the Economy Ministry of Kazakhstan, oilseed plantings for the 2018 harvest in the country expanded by 14% versus 2017, to a record 2.838 Ml ha, report UkrAgroConsult’s analysts. Oil flax accounts for the largest portion of their total acreage. So, 1.1 Ml ha was seeded to this crop in […]
Nigeria and Germany at the weekend, signed two memorandums of understanding (MoU) in the field of agriculture and trade. The first agreement was signed between the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) and the German-African Business Association. First Deputy National President of NACCIMA Hajia Saratu Iya-Abubakar, signed on behalf of […]
“For seven months of this year, production increased by about 1.3%. While maintaining the current pace until the end of the year, we plan that the total milk collection will be 31 million 630 thousand tons”, said Deputy Director of the Department of food and processing industry of the Ministry of agriculture Vladimir Skvortsov in […]
The amount of US corn inspected for export in the week ended August 23 was at 1.245 million mt, up 13.5% compared with 1.096 million mt inspected in the previous week, data from the Department of Agriculture showed Monday. The amount of corn inspected was 49% higher than the 853,796 mt in the year-ago week, […]
Smallholder farmer shave secured a deal to supply maize to major buyers, including agro-processing firms, which effectively contribute to addressing the challenge of lack of access to formal markets that has troubled farmers for long.
Snake Rearing: Abubakar Ballah, the Officer-in-Charge of Snakebite Therapy and Research Centre, Kaltungo, Gombe state, has urged Nigerians to embrace snake rearing to boost their financial standing.
Harvest Plus Nigeria, an international agricultural agency, has trained more than 1.2 million farmers in parts of the country in the production of cassava vitamin A. Young people and women also learned how to turn cassava by-products into confectionery and food products. He said that the training provided recipes for the production of vitamin varieties […]
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Oyo state government today signed a deal to develop an agricultural blueprint for the state, and the establishment of agribusiness park. The agricultural policy will clearly outline the opportunities, strengths, weaknesses, threats, and more importantly what the state needs to do in the short, medium, and long […]
“Prices Of Food Stuff Crashes” Prices of food items have started crashing in parts of Nasarawa State following the arrival of newly harvested farm produce. A survey conducted by NAN in some markets in Keffi Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday revealed that the prices of maize and local rice had reduced but […]
The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has won a case instituted against it by the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) over a permit granted for the commercial release of BT cotton in Nigeria. Justice A.R Mohammed of The Federal High Court Abuja who delivered the judgement, today Wednesday (15 August), dismissed the action on […]
“Abuja Farmers” After Esther Panya (not actual identify) was bitten by a scorpion on the farm, initially of this year’s farming season in Jikwoyi Phase I, a suburb of Abuja, many farming households in the neighborhood had been pressured to regulate their security practices. The incident is an unpleasant reminder of deadly incidents of toxic […]
“Global Seed Money” Coordinator of the program “Technology for Africa Agriculture Transformation [TAAT], Mr. Christ Akim, showed that Nigeria and other African countries with a great interest in fish, soybeans, cassava, vegetables and cocoa production can now estimate initial money of $ 120 million. USA, collected by the World Bank, the African Development Bank and […]
“Agric loans” The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Audu Ogbe criticized the nine per cent interest rate on agricultural loans provided to farmers under the anchor borrower scheme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), describing it as outrageous. Ogbeh, who spoke at the second conference of the Food for the Future Nigerian Agricultural […]