Agriculture
Agriculture

Nigeria’s committed to self-sufficiency in dairy production – NABDA

By Our Correspondent The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) is committed to making Nigeria self-sufficient in dairy production, according to its Director-General. The NABDA DG, Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, made the pledge at a two-day Strategic Interest Research Group Meeting on livestock genetic improvement (SIRGM 4.0), on Thursday, in Ibadan, Oyo State. TheNewsZenith reports that the theme of […]

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Agriculture Farming Value Chain

FG launches 5-year national strategy on potatoes

By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Federal Ministry of  Agriculture and Food Security launched a five-year National Strategy on Potato on Thursday in Jos. At the launch, Dr Ernest Umakhihe, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, said that the strategy would run from 2023 to 2028. Mr Abdullahi Abubakar, the Director in the Department of Agriculture of […]

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Agriculture Maritime

Stakeholders seek FG’s intervention to grow aquaculture

By Our Correspondent Three experts in aquaculture sub-sector have called for intervention of the Federal Government to enhance its growth and productivity. They spoke in separate interviews with the newsmen on Monday in Lagos. Mr Bashir Amin, a fishmonger and consultant, said the two new ministries – Ministriers of Agriculture, and Marine and Blue Economy, […]

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Agriculture Value Chain

Association advocates planting 10,000 hectares of coconuts

From Our Correspondent The National Coconut Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NACOPPMAN) has advocated planting 10,000 hectares of coconut in viable states across the country. Dr Nma Okoroji, National President of NACOPPMAN, made the advocacy while speaking with newsmen in commemoration of World Coconut Day on Saturday in Abuja. TheNewsZenith reports that World […]

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Agriculture Value Chain

Agric Reality TV targets 10 million job creation in 5 years

The President, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Farouk Mudi, says the newly unveiled AGRIVEST Reality TV challenge platform would create 10 million agriculture-related jobs in five years. Mudi said this at the signing of a pact between AFAN, TINGO mobile and the Association of Deans of Agriculture in Nigeria (ADAN) on Wednesday in Abuja. […]

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Agriculture

Stealing: Farmers in Gombe keep vigil on farm crops

From Our Correspondent in Gombe Farmers in Gombe State are now taking unusual steps to safeguard their crops due to rising cases of theft of farm produce. While some farmers now sleep on their farms to keep vigil, others pay between N30,000 and N50,000 monthly to vigilante groups to safeguard their farms, as they prepare […]

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Agriculture National

Set up palliative monitoring committee – AFAN tells FG

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has advised the Federal Government to set up a joint monitoring committee to ensure equitable distribution of palliatives to farmers and other beneficiaries. Dr Femi Oke, AFAN’s Chairman in Lagos State and South-West Zone, gave the advice in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos. Oke reiterated […]

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Agriculture Foreign News

Argan Tree: Life-wire of rural Moroccan women

“Women play an irreplaceable role in preserving the Argan forests,” said Jamila Idbourrous, Director of the Union of Argan Oil Women’s Cooperatives in Agadir, Morocco. Known as the “tree of life”, Morocco’s native Argan tree is critical to the economic and cultural well-being of millions of people. The export of Argan oil, used worldwide for […]

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Agriculture

Farmers in Rivers seek inclusiveness in agriculture subsidy

From Our Correspondent A farmers group in Rivers has called on the Federal Government to ensure equal access to opportunities on the planned agriculture subsidy programmes. Mr Godwin Akandu, President of Etche Farmers Cooperative Union, made the plea while speaking with our correspondent in Port Harcourt. Akandu advised that the government should focus on efforts […]

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Food Security Foreign News

Mozambique’s fisheries production hits 218,000 tons in H1

Mozambique’s fisheries production reached 218,000 tons in the first half of 2023, an official announced in Maputo, on Monday. Artisanal fishing accounted for around 95 per cent, followed by industrial and semi-industrial fishing at four per cent. Aquaculture accounted for one per cent, Lidia Cardoso, Minister of Sea, Inland Waters and Fisheries. Cardoso announced the […]

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