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Why farmers are unable to access fertiliser
Farmers Two months after the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative commenced across the country, farmers in some states are yet to access the much-hyped fertiliser, and where available, they are sold...
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Tomato Ebola: Firm recommends bio-organic solution
Tuta Absoluta Following the devastating impact of Tuta Absoluta outbreak on tomato farms in the country, an agriculture firm has advised farmers to embrace bio-organic solution to combat its spread on...
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Kebbi flags-off aerial spray of Quelea birds
Kebbi State government has commenced the seasonal aerial spray of pestiferous parasites birds known as Quelea birds that are destroying rice farms in the state. Flagging off the exercise at Tuga...
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IITA unfolds plans to rebuild Borno
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ambassador and former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (r); Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, IITA, Dr. Kenton Dashiell; and...
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FIIRO, Liberia partner on cassava processing technologies
PHOTO: mofolusades.blogspot.com In search for cassava processing technologies, to promote industrial research in the area of agriculture and to foster national unity between Nigeria and Liberia,...
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Pearl Universal Impex enhances rice production with 20,000mt
The company had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Niger State, Upper Niger Basin Development for the cultivation of 7,500 ha of farmland in New...
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Anambra FADAMA boss lists topography, poor irrigation as challenges
Irrigation is a major limitation, but we have five pivot irrigation projects going on and it is something that is heart warming. • Lauds Obiano’s Agric Efforts Anambra State FADAMA Programme...
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Gowon, Obasanjo, Adesina, others to grace IITA's 50th anniversary celebration
Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, and his deputy, Mrs Titi Laoye-Tomori, at the official opening of IITA Research and Training Farm, during Osun Farmers Open Day 2017, taged: Odun...
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IITA, KIFFCO sensitise farmers on production of toxic free maize
On his own part, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) KIFFCO Project, Kefas K. Mayaki, noted that the presence of Aflatoxins in maize has prevented maize grown in Nigeria from been exported to other...
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15,000 farmers to benefit from WASIL/WACOT, BIF collaboration
This development was announced during the week in Funtua, Katsina State, during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between WASIL and BIF. Fifteen thousand maize and soy farmers in Katsina...
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FAO launches to increase access to agriculture information
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has officially handed over the Computer Assisted Personal Interview System (CAPI) developed through the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) to...
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Afreximbank seeks support to boost agriculture in Africa
President, AfreximBank, Dr. Benedict Oramah • Partners Belarus On $800m Trade And Investment Finance Facility Despite possessing over 60 per cent of the world’s usable arable land, Africa still faces...
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Agric ministry, FECA kick-off Vitamin A cassava stems distribution in Ondo
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FARD), in collaboration with Federal College of Agriculture, Akure (FECA), has begun free distribution of high yielding and disease resistant...
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IITA affirms tenacity to addressing food security challenges
food security Marks 50th Anniversary In Style The foremost agricultural institute, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Oyo State has affirmed its doggedness to addressing...
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Solidaridad harps on yield intensification technology to boost palm oil...
Country Representative, Solidaridad West Africa, Nigeria, Stephen Babajide (l); Regional Director, Isaac Gyamfi; 1st Chairman, Dr Celestine Ikuenobe; and Executive Director-NIFOR, Dr Omorefe Asemota,...
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Agric sector gets boost of $65.9m private financing
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, under whose watch this progress was recorded, has expressed the full commitment of his ministry “towards the development of the...
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NAFDAC lauds IITA-CWMP for training 659 spray service providers
The trainings, which were conducted with about 659 trained participants, built the capacities of spray gangs already existing in local communities on the safe use and application of herbicides....
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Nigeria to formally export yam to UK, US this week
Anyiin yam market, Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. By Thursday, June 29, 2017, Nigeria will formally export its first consignment of certified yams to the UK and US, as part of efforts aimed...
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Dizengoff partners firm to boost agric mechanisation
The Country Manager, Mr. Anti Ritvonen, who disclosed this during the unveiling and signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with CASE IH in Abuja, affirmed the companies commitment to ensuring that...
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Afreximbank opens new vista for Belarus-Africa pact on agric, others
Delegates at the maiden Belarus-Africa Forum, in Minsk, Republic of Belarus. Towards virile and sustainable economic growth capable of boosting international trade, the African continent is in search...
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