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Yoruba group canvases return to full scale agriculture
• Says Revival Of Awolowo Farm Settlement Model Will Help The Yoruba Leadership And Peace Initiative (TYLPI) has urged the six states in the Southwest to improve on their economies by exploiting their...
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At Media Day, IITA advocates innovation to attract youths into agric
Developing creative methods that would attract young people to agriculture has been described as the impetus needed to attract youth to agriculture and end rising unemployment in the continent. Deputy...
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Expert tasks government on mechanised farming to attract youths
• 2 % Of Federal Agriculture Budget Abysmal Government at all levels have been advised to mechanise agriculture to take away the drudgery associated with it, so as to attract young people to the farms...
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VCDP begins inputs distribution to rice, cassava farmers in Anambra
Cassava farm The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) assisted-Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), has commenced distribution of farm inputs worth N728 million to 4,515 rice and...
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NBMA signs MoU with NAQS, NASC on GMO regulation
Dr. Rufus Ebegba The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) and the National...
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Why price of garri has continued to soar
Frying Garri manually. PHOTO: www.ellist.com Despite the reported downward slide in prices of food commodities across the country, Garri, a popular staple food, extracted from processed...
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NRCRI commissions seeds rapid multiplication laboratory
PHOTO: seeds.lastate.edu The National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Abia State, has formally commissioned a multi million naira Autotrophic Hydroponic System (SAH) Seed Multiplication...
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At food summit, stakeholders chart path to agric revival
food security The ‘Feed Nigeria Summit (FNS) 2017’, first in its annual series, has been held in Lagos. It was a high level convocation, tagged “Feed Nigeria,To Feed Africa.” It was organized by Agro...
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Poultry farmers lament multiple challenges
Poultry The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) has identified sourcing of raw materials, high foreign exchange rate, and cost of production, among others, as challenges presently confronting the...
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TMD Synergy launches natural clean farming technology to assist farmers
Fish, poultry and pig farmers, who have been battling endlessly to ensure odourless and flies free environment, due to their farms activities, can now heave as sigh of relief with the introduction of...
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Kano produces 60 percent of Nigerian seed
“Kano produces 60 per cent of the seeds in Nigeria. Whereas, Nigeria produces 65 per cent of seeds used in West African sub-region. The Director General of the National Agricultural Seeds Council...
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Experts list challenges to aflatoxin elimination
Aflatoxin contamination in maize and groundnuts results in 7,761 liver cancer cases; total burden of 100,965 disability adjusted life years lost due to death or disability caused by disease Lack of...
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Stakeholders appeal to FG on accessible infrastructure
According to him, some of the major challenges stakeholders are facing in the rice sector include, unavailability of modern tractors, parboiling machine, drying machine, access roads and boreholes. The...
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Nigeria can earn additional N15tr from cassava
The President of Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA), Pastor Segun Adewumi has appealed to the Federal Government to boost cassava production, for the country to get additional N15tr to enhance...
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Poor management responsible for bird flu resurgence
It is a potentially devastating disease, predominantly of chickens and turkeys, although the virus can also affect game birds (pheasants, partridge and quail), ratites (ostrich and emu), psittacine and...
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Small-scale women farmers demand 10% allocation to agriculture
Small-scale Women Famers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) has urged the Federal Government to release the 10 per cent allocation provided in the federal budget for agriculture. SWOFON project, funded...
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2,000 sesame farmers benefit from Olam’s outgrow initiative in Jigawa
Olam Nigeria Olam Nigeria Limited has empowered 2,000 Sesame farmers in Jigawa State, to increase the country’s share of agricultural commodities for export market.The programme, anchored under its...
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At product launch, commissioner lists low productivity as bane of agric
Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Toyin Suarau has identified low productivity as one of the challenges facing agriculture in the...
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Katsina launches total mechanisation initiative
225 tractors were commissioned at the launch, to achieve total mechanisation of farming in the state.At a press briefing to herald the launch, Special Assistant to the state Governor on Agriculture,...
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Aregbesola lists strategies adopted to revolutionising agric in Osun
Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbhe (2nd left); Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola (middle); his deputy, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori (right); Director, Gender and Youth, Hajia Karima Babangida...
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