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Ofada Veetee Rice: A massive scheme lying in ruins
The abandoned Rice factory PHOTO: GBENGA AKINFENWA The Ofada Veetee Rice industry, located in Itori, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been abandoned and lying in waste and neglect....
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Processor says Coconut tree may be extinct in Nigeria next 50 years
Coconut tree Coconut trees may go into extinction in Nigeria in the next 50 years, a coconut processor, Mr Muheammad Mustafa, has said, cautioning against its use as building materials substitute....
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Experts warn on effects of petition against seed council leadership
Director-General, NASC, Dr. Philip Ojo (left) with Oyo zone Chairman, WAIDA, Mr. Adenitan Solomon at the Southwest sensitisation tour of seed markets in Ogunpa area of Ibadan Stakeholders in the...
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Stakeholders list steps to sustaining poultry industry
National President, Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Dr. Ayoola Oduntan (l); Chairman, International Poultry Academy, Alhaji Lanre Bello; Chairman, PAN, Lagos State Chapter, Prince Adetoyi Ezekiel...
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Kano partners UK company on cotton processing
Against the backdrop of economic diversification, the Kano State government has entered into talks with a United Kingdom based cotton processing company. This was disclosed by the Commissioner of...
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Jigawa trains 5,000 youths on sesame, rice cultivation
Mobilise 32,000 Farmers For Wheat Harvest To compliment Federal Government’s policy on economic diversification, the Jigawa State government has trained about 5,000 youth on sesame and rice...
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AfricaRice moves to power rice farm mechanisation in Kano
As part of measures to accelerate Federal Government’s sustainable growth policies on Rice production in the country, AfricaRice, pan African intergovernmental agricultural research center has provided...
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At IITA’s 50th anniversary, IFAD president lauds institution’s antecedents
President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Kanayo Nwaze, with International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Youth Agripreneurs in Banana macrochamber, during his visit...
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Anambra secures N3bn CBN grant to invest in agric, SMEs
Mechanised farming Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra on Friday said the state had secured a N3 billion grant from the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) to invest in SMEs and agriculture. Obiano made the...
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Multi-billion naira fertiliser company set for launch in Kano
Fertiliser Responding to the nation’s economic diversification, a Kano based businessman, Ali Yusuf Ibrahim, has acquired a multi-billion naira fertilizer company, Aliyu Fertilizer and Chemical (AF...
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YIIFSWA trains commercial seed producers for increase yam yield
Yam seed The Yam Improvement For Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA)’ in collaboration with the National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Abia State, has trained 18...
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Ondo hosts maiden cocoa industry, investment conference
Cocoa Ondo State government has concluded the maiden Akure Commodity Exchange, initiated by the state Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko to help farmers midwife their sale internationally. The 1st...
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MADE seeks cassava alternative for livestock feed
Cassava farm In the face of soaring prices of maize and soya beans - the essential ingredients for the production of livestock feeds, feed millers are folding up gradually, as a result of huge losses....
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GMO: The good, bad and the not so ugly - Part - 1
Genetically Modified Tomato With hundreds of debates going on about GMO foods and oppositions from Anti-GMO advocacy groups getting tougher by the day, I have always been inquisitive about this topic...
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Enthusiasts brainstorm on future of Africa’s cocoa research
Photo: Wikimedia For the first time in West Africa, a regional symposium focusing on the next generation of cocoa research for West and Central Africa was held at the International Institute of...
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Stakeholders tackle Tomato post harvest losses
Forty-five Nigerians and global business leaders in the country’s agriculture industry met last week in Lagos, to find market-led solutions to the post-harvest losses in the country’s tomato value...
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Farmers count losses after herdsmen onslaughts
OAMSAL Farms being ravaged by cattle Beyond the issue of environmental pollution, public disturbance and other dastardly acts linked with the activities of herdsmen, their actions have left...
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Plateau will harvest 1million tonnes of rice this season – RiFAN Chairman
Rice farmers in Plateau are optimistic of a bumper harvest this year with their chairman, Mr Joshua Bitrus, boasting that members would garner “ at least one million tonnes”. “This year’s harvest is...
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Importation threatens government’s agriculture policy
Rice farm SOURCE:tungamadiang.comThe big players in the agric sector whose businesses thrive on importation now constitute a big threat to the Nigerian Agricultural Promotion Policy, and unless the...
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Agriculture headlines climate change negotiations at COP22
Climate changeFor the first time in the history of the Conference of Parties (COP), agriculture was brought to the forefront of climate discussions at the just concluded 22nd session of the conference...
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