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[ad_1] The Federal Government has disclosed moves to adopt efficient technology in massive cassava production to compete favourably in the international market and create wealth. This was made known by the Director, Federal Department of Agriculture in the Ministry, Karima Babangida, during a capacity building workshop on youth and women farmers to address ‘Yield Gap […]
[ad_1] Mechanisation is a multi-dimensional concept and widely used in agriculture. There is, however, a major difference between the application of mechanisation in developed and developing countries. The developing countries tend to design their own strategies in food security given the challenges they face in all aspects of their economy including feeding a growing population, […]
China’s grain production has increased from 135 kilograms per mu in 1978 to 367 kilograms recorded in 2017, boosted by indigenous innovation in agriculture, according to the Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS) on Sunday. China has cultivated a batch of good germplasm resources and genomes and completed the genetic mapping and sequencing of major […]
SENATOR representing Oyo North Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Fatai Buhari, has facilitated an empowerment programme in the form of value chain capacity building on aquaculture for youth and women in the district. Senator Buhari, in partnership with the Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR), Lagos facilitated […]
Animal technologists and scientists have harped on integrated farming, robust collaboration between the gown and town, cooperative activities and application of modern techniques and technologies in fish and livestock farming for sustainability. They said these during the Nigerian Association of Animal Health and Husbandry Technologists’ (NAAHHT’s) annual lecture at the Federal College of Animal Health […]
The Ministry of agriculture irrigation and livestock in Afghanistan has engaged Messer Cellulant Nigeria, an indigenous mobile commerce company to begin the process of establishing a market-based input distribution technology to boost the country’s agricultural sector. The Agrikore/ e-wallet technology developed by the Nigerian company gives small holder farmers access to agricultural inputs of improved […]
Conventional agriculture as we know it is associated with working tediously with hoe and machete, getting dirty in the fields with little or nothing to show for the labour exerted. However, advancement in technology now see farmers leveraging on hydroponics technology which requires less energy and time to get better yield with less soil or […]
When a 160-acre parcel of farmland in southern Minnesota came up for sale, many wrote the irregular-shape field off as not worthy of a second glance. “Most farmers said they didn’t want to deal with it because there would be too much waste, and they would just be throwing money away,” recalls Cory Sumerfelt, who […]
Small-scale farmers in Africa now have enough reasons to smile; with the invention of Gasoline powered simple weeders, adapted for clearing in cassava farms, to reduce the burden of weeding. Initially acquired as tillers, the simple tools are being modified and adapted as weeders by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) led Cassava Weed […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has said that the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development, Health and Science and Technology will partner with the media to educate Nigerians on the need to embrace the new technology of operating and using electronic Stainless Grinding Machine. Ogbeh revealed this at a press […]
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. […]
Can you tell the difference between soybeans and sweet potatoes from 100 feet in the air? Could you handle the controls of an airplane flying 150 mph? Could you keep that airplane 10 feet off the ground, apply an agriculture product to the right field, keep the product on target, and avoid hazards in and […]
The Monsanto Sobsidiary Aims To Nearly Double Paid Subscriptions In 2017. The top corn yield in the 2015 National Corn Growers Association yield contest tallied 532 bushels per acre. Meanwhile, 2015’s average yield on the remaining 80.7 million U.S. corn acres harvested for grain tallied 168.4 bushels per acre. So why the yield gap? Well, […]
Sentera is partnering with RDO Equipment Co., which will give its customers access to a variety of Sentera’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) solutions including quadcopter UAVs, precision sensors, and AgVault software. “Sentera’s complete, easy-to-use, and affordable UAV solutions are a natural fit with the RDO Equipment Company product portfolio. The offering fills a need for […]
One of the equipment exhibited in the ongoing Daily Trust Agric Conference is the power tiller machine, by Habgito Nig. Ltd Lagos, which caught the attention of many small and medium scale farmers. Mr. Unula Nwuche, the Executive Officer of the company, said that the power tiller provides solution to many farmers in the country, […]