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Government troops have captured another killer herdsman in the Guma Local Government Area of Benue, the scene of recurring deadly attacks by herdsmen. The name of the captured herdsman was given as Idi Gemu. The capture of Mr Gemu, whose AK 47 has also been seized by troops, brings to four the number of killer […]
Embrace Farming, Agric Is Our Future – Buhari Tells Youths, A statement released by Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, after the meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari with the United States’ President, Donald Trump at Blair House, Washington DC has reiterated government’s call on youths, both educated and the uneducated […]
The National President, National Cashew Association of Nigeria, NCAN, Tola Faseru, has disclosed that the production of the commodity has increased from about 90,000 metric tonnes in 2011 to 220,000 metric tonnes at the end of 2017 translating to about $402million. He said the cashew industry has made a lot of progress when compared to […]
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has refute claims widely reported in the media that Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development failed to attend the recently held Nigeria-US Investment summit in Washington DC. This was stated in a statement made available to BusinessDay by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural […]
America Needs Nigeria To Make Africa Great Again – Gov Bello, Kogi State Governor, Alh. Yahaya Bello has hailed the renewed interest of the United States in the greatness of Nigeria, saying Nigeria’s economic renaissance is key to African prosperity. Governor Bello made this known through a message a statement by his Director General of […]
Benue Killings Threaten Nigeria Monthly 480Tonnes Yam Export, Nigeria’s monthly export target of 480tonnes of yam to the United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates, as well as key European countries is under threat by the rising insecurity in Benue state, in Nigeria, BusinessDay investigations has revealed. Yam, a staple food virtually consumed by every household […]
Buhari Harps On Agriculture, As American Companies Eye Nigeria Market, President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his call on youths in Nigeria to seize opportunities in agriculture, a sector of the economy he said is already proving to be the bedrock of the nation’s new economy. The President stated this at the Blair House, Washington DC, […]
Nigeria Must Commercialise Research To Generate Increase IGR, Research institutions in the country need to commercialize their research products to increase Internally Generated Revenue, according to the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development Heineken Lokpobiri. Lokpobiri noted this recently during a two-day facility tour of the three research institutes domiciled in Ahmadu Bello […]
Niger Rice Cuts Imports, Says FADAMA, Niger State has contributed to the reduction of rice imports, the National Fadama Co-ordination Office has said. Nigeria has been listed among the 16 top producers of rice with its local production valued at N684 billion ($1.9 billion). Niger State produced 545,700 metric tonnes (MT) of rice to top […]
Strategies To Boost Cassava Production, Stakeholders have called for pragmatic strategies to improve Nigeria‘s position as a leading cassava producer, using innovation and technology. Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) Director, Dr Claude Fauquet, who spoke at a briefing in Lagos, ahead of the group’s International Cassava Conference slated for June 11 to […]
WACOT Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of TGI Group, in Kano, has rewarded 100 of its top dealers for their efforts in marketing its products. They were rewarded with various gifts such as motorcycles, television sets, refrigerators with a car as the star prize. Its Managing Director, Mr. Ujwal Senapati, who spoke at the ceremony, reiterated […]
The Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK) is to begin community tree planting across the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of the state. The campaign has “Plant a tree”as its theme. At its weekly management meeting, its General Manager, Mrs. Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola said the community tree planting, […]
Black leaf streak disease or black Sigatoka, yellow Sigatoka, and eumusae leaf spot are three closely related and complex diseases that constrain banana and plantain production globally. They are caused by three fungi belonging to the genus Pseudocercospora. These are P. fijiensis, P. musae, and P. eumusae, that cause black Sigatoka, yellow Sigatoka, and eumusae […]
Scientists from IITA and partner institutions have carried out the first known proteomic investigation into plantain. The results of the study are featured in a paper, titled “The plantain proteome, a focus on allele specific proteins obtained from plantain fruits” by N.A. Campos, R. Swennen, and S.C. Carpentier. Proteomics entails the study of the expression […]
Researchers Develop A New Way To Describe Plantain Diversity In DRC, Researchers studying the morphological (structure and form) diversity of plantain in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have developed an innovative way to describe plantain diversity using descriptors based on performance, grouping them into main, secondary, and rare descriptors. The morphological identification of plantain […]