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ARCN Appoints 7 New Provosts For Federal Colleges Of Agriculture
The Agricultural Research Council Of Nigeria (ARCN) on Tuesday appointed new Provosts for seven (7) Federal Colleges of Agriculture and an Executive Director for...
IITA and EAGC agree to work towards producing aflatoxin-free grains for health and trade
Ibadan, Nigeria/Nairobi, Kenya - The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) today signed an agreement to work...
National Biosecurity Policy: Drafting Committee Presents Draft Document To DG/CEO NBMA
The drafting committee for the National Biosecurity Policy, has presented the preliminary draft of the National Biosecurity Policy to the Director General/Chief Executive Officer...
Nigeria approves new names for top performing cassava varieties
"Our farmers can now be able to identify the different cassava varieties."The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday...
Lagos APPEALS tasks farmers On Produce Exportation
Farmers have been advised to embrace the export of locally produced products, to contribute to the foreign coffers...
Less than 2% of Nigeria’s budget allocated to capital agriculture projects – Official
Less than two per cent of Nigeria’s 2019 budget was allocated to fund capital projects in the agricultural sector,...
Imo govt disbands task force over death of 3,000 day-old chicks
The Imo State Government has disbanded its task force on state emblem for causing the death of over 3,000 day-old chicks...
Blockchain tech provides liquidity for smallholder farmers, says AFEX
AFEX Commodities Exchange Limited, AFEX, has disclosed plans to introduce Warehouse Receipt Check by Trade Finance Market, TFM,...
Farmer Cooperative: Capacity Building Training For Young Farmers
After training 650 young Nigerians in Good Agricultural Practices (Module 1) and Farmer Business School (Module 2), the Agricultural...
HOW TO
How to Use Beneficial Insects Against Unwanted Insects In Your Garden
Introduction While for some people, insects might seem unappealing, so many creepy crawlies are beneficial insects for your garden. There are some bad bugs in...
How Beekeeping Business Thrives
Beekeeping is a business opportunity with social, economic, and ecological benefits that requires minimal time, labour, and resource. For its immense relevance to human health...
How To Grow Cabbage
Cabbage is a cool-weather crop. Grow cabbage in spring so that it comes to harvest before the summer heat or start cabbage in mid...
How to access N50bn COVID-19 intervention fund – CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria says interested stakeholders must meet its set criteria to access its N50bn intervention loans for small and medium scale...
Writing a Lobster Farming Business Plan [Sample Template]
Do you want to start a lobster farm and need to write a plan? If YES, here is a sample lobster farming business plan...
How Organic Pest Control Work and Its Effect
Does organic pest control methods work on mosquitoes, rodents, ants, ticks & fleas? Here is everything you need to know about biological pest control. What...
NIRSAL targets 8 million farmers in new financing program, training
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Landing (NIRSAL) has called on smallholder farmers and other agricultural stakeholders to enroll in a new...
3 Marketing Factors for Animal Source Food System Success
The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project recently launched an analytical...
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Personality
“GMOs‘ll Come When We Are of Age” – Prof. Malachy Akoroda
Government should invest in agriculture to minimize the degree of food importation and this can be achieved provided there is strategic planning over a long period of time.
Interview
How Netherlands Is Impacting Agricultural Development In Nigeria
By Ogunfuyi Ayomikun Peter Michel Deelen is the head of office of the Netherlands Embassy in Lagos. He came to Nigeria in August, 2014. Before...
News
“Government Should Lift The Ban On GMOs”
“Government should lift the ban on GMOs to enable farmers reap the benefits of this Technology”
Personality
Transport Cost Erased With The Introduction of Green-House – Humphery Otalor
Mr. Humphery Otalor is the Marketing Communications Manager of Diezegoff. He has been with the company for over two years and has been supportive to the organization both in the agricultural and communication division, marketing communications and campaigns.
Local News
Cellulant Is Africa’s One-Stop-Shop For Payments – Bolaji Akinboro
“Our platform provides end users easy, reliable and secured access to mobile and payment services from their mobile phone and through our expansive agent network.” Cellulant CEO
Personality
“Support From Government To Agricultural Research Is Limited”
“We will appreciate more support from the government; such support can come in form of putting in place the necessary resources or by simply engaging the research institutes through funding to encourage investment in agriculture.”
INTERNATIONAL
Should regen ag include gene editing? Readers respond
In a recent article, we asked whether regenerative agriculture practitioners should embrace gene editing and other biotechnologies. Regenerative agriculture is a growing movement focused...
Aquaponics startup Seed & Roe snags $15m, rebrands...
Fish and leafy greens may appear to be unlikely bedfellows. Not so much for Upward Farms. “The tech we use is a combo of aquaculture...
Campbell’s Soup sells agrifoodtech fund investment in Acre...
Campbell’s Soup has sold its stake in Acre Venture Partners Fund I to private markets group StepStone in a secondary transaction. Campbell’s was the...
Why precision agriculture is essential in combating climate...
Editor’s note: Slava Mazai is the CEO of OneSoil, a Belarus-based startup that develops an AI-powered precision farming platform and is a member of...
A mini guide to Latin American agrifoodtech in...
The year 2019 was a breakout year for Latin American agrifoodtech and 2020 is already shaping up to beat those records, in spite of...
Protenga nets $1.6m for its ‘zero-waste’ approach to...
UK agritech venture builder Roslin Technologies and Enterprise Singapore’s SEEDS Capital, an investment vehicle linked with the city-state’s government, have pumped $1.6 million into...
Taranis banks $30m Series C with tech giants...
Agricultural imaging and analytics firm Taranis has raised $30 million in a Series C round co-led by Vertex Growth — an affiliate of Singapore...
Farmers Business Network acquires Farmsave, expands to Australia
US-based Farmers Business Network (FBN) is expanding to Australia after announcing the acquisition of local startup Farmsave. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed,...
EVENTS/TRAINING
‘Nigeria must deepen agribusiness’
Experts in the agricultural value chain have advised that...
Less than 2% of Nigeria’s budget allocated to capital agriculture projects – Official
Less than two per cent of Nigeria’s 2019 budget...
Imo govt disbands task force over death of 3,000 day-old chicks
The Imo State Government has disbanded its task force on state...
U.S.-Africa Trade & Investment Global Summit (USATIGS-2019): Meet Our Speakers
Florence Torson-Hart: President, US-Ghana Chamber of Commerce Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch Florence Torson-Hart is the current Board Chair of the US-Ghana Chamber of Commerce headquartered in...
FARM MANAGEMENT
Common Soybeans Diseases Symptoms And Treatment
Common Soybeans Diseases Symptoms And Treatment, Several diseases, including Phytophthora root and stem rot, pod and stem blight, frogeye leaf spot, brown spot, downy...
Common Banana Farming Diseases Symptoms And Treatment
Common Banana Farming Diseases Symptoms, Bananas may be one of the most popular fruits sold in the United States. Grown commercially as a food...
Common Poultry Diseases Symptoms And Treatment (Video)
Common Poultry diseases are no doubt one of the major challenges facing the poultry farming business industry in Nigeria. There have been many cases...
Rice Common Diseases, Symptoms And Management
Rice Common Diseases: Worldwide, rice is one of the most important crops and it represents a staple food for over half of the world’s population, with a global production of more than 700 million tons per year and a harvested area reaching 165 million ha. (Rice Common Diseases, Symptoms And Management)
Ruminant Animals Common Diseases, Symptoms And Treatment
Ruminant Animals: These animals all have a digestive system that is uniquely different from our own. Instead of one compartment to the stomach they have four. Common diseases, symptoms and treatment of ruminant animals are as follow.
Common Diseases of Tomato, Pepper, Eggplant and Potato
Common Tomato Diseases, Tomato, pepper, eggplant and potato, popular garden crops in the Solanaceae family of plants, are susceptible to several diseases that can...
NEWS
Nigeria approves new names for top performing cassava varieties
"Our farmers can now be able to identify the different cassava varieties."The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday...
Lagos APPEALS tasks farmers On Produce Exportation
Farmers have been advised to embrace the export of locally produced products, to contribute to the foreign coffers...
Less than 2% of Nigeria’s budget allocated to capital agriculture projects – Official
Less than two per cent of Nigeria’s 2019 budget was allocated to fund capital projects in the agricultural sector,...
Imo govt disbands task force over death of 3,000 day-old chicks
The Imo State Government has disbanded its task force on state emblem for causing the death of over 3,000 day-old chicks...
Blockchain tech provides liquidity for smallholder farmers, says AFEX
AFEX Commodities Exchange Limited, AFEX, has disclosed plans to introduce Warehouse Receipt Check by Trade Finance Market, TFM,...
Farmer Cooperative: Capacity Building Training For Young Farmers
After training 650 young Nigerians in Good Agricultural Practices (Module 1) and Farmer Business School (Module 2), the Agricultural...
FMARD PROGRAMMES
FMARD PROGRAMMES
The Green Alternative : Nigeria’s Agriculture...
The Agriculture Promotion Policy 2016-2020 document, “The Green Alternative ” is the outcome of...
FMARD PROGRAMMES
Staple Crops Processing Zones (SCPZ)
This idea focuses on attracting private sector agribusinesses to set up processing plants in...
FMARD PROGRAMMES
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System For...
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) – a new innovative mechanism...