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The state government of Osun has requested for Expression of Interest for competent aggregators to activate market-driven agricultural value chain in the state. Recall Governor Rauf Aregbesola had two weeks ago travelled to Germany to seek partnership in the agricultural value chain. The Osun Agricultural Value Chain Activation initiative is an initiative of the state…” […]
A Financial expert, Managing Director, Background Check International, BCI, Mr. Kola Olugbodi, has stressed the need for background check as a key tool that could assist corporate organizations confront the challenges posed by the present economic recession in the country. Olugbodi, therefore, urged corporate organizations to embrace background check and institute it as a corporate […]
The N10 billion Youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES) programme is a scheme initiated by the Bank of Industry (BoI) to tackle the phenomenon of youth unemployment in Nigeria by developing the capacity of the youths and funding their business ideas. The scheme which is aimed at developing the entrepreneurial capacity of youths and providing start up […]
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has said probably more than any other disease affecting both livestock and people, Trypanosomosis threatens human and livestock health and agricultural production and, thereby, rural development and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa. In a statement to Leadership,it states that the disease, transmitted mainly by tsetse flies, is prevalent in […]
Brass Fertiliser & Petrochemical Company Limited (BFPCL) has secured $6 billion offshore facility for the takeoff of its methanol plant in Bayelsa State. In a statement, Chief Ben Okoye, the company’s Vice Chairman, said: “Phase one of the project has commenced following the securing of $6 billion from BP Oil International Limited, London. “We also secured […]
♦ They’re migrant herdsmen; troops deployed—POLICE Three people were reportedly killed, while no fewer than six others were injured yesterday, when herdsmen clashed with farmers in Gereng community of Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Reports from the area indicated that some members of the Gereng community, who went fishing in a pond in […]
The US government, yesterday, said it has invested $75 million (about N2.3 billion) in the country’s agricultural sector, just as it launched agribusiness partnerships with Chi Farms and Niji Foods. However, against the backdrop of this development the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said that Nigeria’s agric sector is underdeveloped due to lack […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, has urged Nigerians to adopt safe food processing technology, saying food safety and consumers’ health need to be given prominent attention in Nigeria. He said this while reviewing the demonstration of the new model of grinding machine for soup condiments in his office in Abuja, recently. […]
The Country Coordinator of the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), Rose Gidado, in this interview with COLLINS NNABUIFE, says Genetically Modified seeds will not take over from the conventional seeds, and highlights some characteristics of GMOs and how they can help Nigeria in attaining food security. What exactly is GMO? Genetically modified organisms otherwise […]
Dr Isa Salihu, Adamawa Commissioner for Livestock Development, confirmed that the state government in collaboration with the Federal Government aims to vaccinate about four million cattle. Salihu, who made this known in an interview in Yola on Monday,said the development follows the outbreak of contagious ‘Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP)’ disease late last year in some cattle’s […]
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), in its maiden edition of Fishing Sports Festival, recently held at the Fish Farm, Directorate of University Farms (DUFARMS) of the University, in which several people were in attendance. Speaking at the event, FUNAAB’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, reiterated the university management’s drive at ensuring industrial harmony on […]
The Chairman, Niger State chapter of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore Social Cultural Association, Mallam Muhammad Abubakar Tukur, has appealed to the state government to urgently intervene in the continued clashes between the Fulani herdsmen and Gbagyi farmers. Tukur made the appeal over the weekend in an interaction with newsmen in Minna, the state capital, adding […]
Experts at the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) Ibadan, have explored the many benefits of mushrooms and its cultivation, saying it contributes to human livelihood economically, nutritionally and medicinally. The experts highlighted the importance of mushrooms in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the Oyo State capital. A Botanist, Dr Olufunmi […]
The Sokoto State Government says it plans to distribute 15,000 bags of rice seedlings and 14, 000 water pumping machines to dry season farmers in the state. Alhaji Umaru Nagwari, the Commissioner for Agriculture, spoke on Tuesday in Sokoto, when he appeared before the State House of Assembly Committee on Agriculture to defend the ministry’s […]
Cocoa grinders in Cote d’Ivoire are holding off on newinvestments after military and social unrest this month,potentially denting government plans to boost processing of the commodity in the world’s top Cote d’Ivoire has emerged from a 2002- 011 political crisis as one of the world’s fastest growing economies, attracting foreign investment into everything from the […]