Agriculture Archives — Page 29 of 31

March 28, 2017 No Responses

Researchers to unveil techniques for controlling weeds in cassava

Researchers working under the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture led Cassava Weed Management Project (IITA-CWMP) will this week share findings and recommendations on how to tackle weeds in cassava farming systems. The sharing of research findings is part of activities...

March 15, 2017 No Responses

Cassava: Experts brainstorm on challenges, way forward

Still in search of a healing balm, the world’s top cassava experts are in Nigeria to report progress on developing new varieties of cassava with higher yield and nutritional content. The high level meeting commenced on Tuesday at...

March 1, 2017 No Responses

How Africa can benefit from $12tri global economic development target, by LADOL, world business leaders

The Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics base (LADOL) has joined notable world business promoters in mapping out strategies to actualize how Africa could effectively reap a whopping $1 trillion from a projected $12 trillion new market value in an emerging global...

February 28, 2017 No Responses

Dangote seeks unhindered movement for trucks with perishable items, special seaport for export

By Moses Ebosele – The Vice President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Sani Dangote on Monday in Lagos implored relevant Government agencies within and outside the Seaports to facilitate unhindered movement for all trucks conveying perishable items. Speak...

February 28, 2017 No Responses

FG flags off presidential initiative on fertilizer, targets 100,000 jobs

The Presidential Fertilizer Initiative of the Federal Government produced more than 4,000 metric tonnes of locally-blended fertilizer in the first week of operation. The Initiative was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2016, to achieve t...

February 14, 2017 No Responses

Dangote to launch 25,000 hectares of rice scheme in Sokoto

Come Wednesday this week, Dangote Rice, a subsidiary of Dangote Group is to launch in Sokoto state it’s multi-million naira 25, 000 hectares of rice Outgrower scheme with a prospect of hundreds of thousand of employment opportunities for the rural...

February 6, 2017 No Responses

Worm ‘threatens African farmers’ livelihoods’

By Helen Briggs, BBC News – Scientists are calling for urgent action to halt the spread of a pest that is destroying maize crops is spreading rapidly across Africa. The fall armyworm poses a major threat to food security and...

January 20, 2017 No Responses

Obaseki inaugurates Agric committee, targets 80,000 jobs

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Thursday inaugurated an ad hoc committee under the Agriculture Empowerment Initiative to revamp agriculture in the state. Obaseki, while inaugurating the committee at the Government House in Benin, said that the ad hoc committ...

January 10, 2017 No Responses

Motorised weeders demonstrate imperatives of cassava mechanisation

Gasoline powered simple weeders adapted for weeding in cassava farms hold promise and may take off the burden of weeding faced by small-scale farmers in Africa. Initially acquired as tillers, these simple tools are being modified and adapted as weeders...

January 8, 2017 No Responses

The A, B, Cs of FG’s N220bn Agric anchor borrowers’ scheme

By John Mayaki – For citizens of Edo State who aren’t in the know of the Federal Government’s N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund – agriculture anchor borrowers’ scheme, and how they can benefit, this wil...

December 20, 2016 No Responses

Minister at Olam farms, reiterates FG commitment to enhance rice cultivation, food security

Inline with the Federal Government’s desire to enhance domestic food security, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has assured Nigerians that adequate measures are being taken to scale up rice cultivation, encourage local prod...

December 12, 2016 No Responses

Banks to boost Agric, SME fund with N30billion

As part of measures to support the newly created Agriculture/Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) fund, the Bankers Committee at the weekend pledged to contribute N30 billion from their Profit After Tax (PAT). Speaking at the end of the 8th...

December 4, 2016 No Responses

Ogun State honours IITA, AATF and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for commitment to agriculture

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were recently honoured by the Ogun State Government for their work on agricultural transformation in Og...

November 28, 2016 No Responses

IITA warns against paying lip service to agriculture

There are negative consequences if Africa continued to pay lip service to agriculture, the Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr Nteranya Sanginga has warned. Addressing members of the Board of Trustees of IITA and ...