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From Agriculture to Agroecology: How Nigeria can use Genetic Modification Technology...
Climate change (CC) refers to seasonal changes over a long period with respect to the growing accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Tackling...
How BASICS is changing Nigeria’s cassava seed sector, creating seed entrepreneurs
For the past decades, Africa has been grappling with the sustainable diffusion of improved cassava varieties due to a weak and uncoordinated dissemination strategy....
COVID-19: Food prices hit 15.03% high in 2 years
Transportation, Dearth Of Farm Hands Is Responsible —Daramola We Should Buckle Up For More Inflation —Adesola Lagos Master Bakers Threaten 60% Bread Price...
Investing in toothpicks production
Nigeria has in abundance all the basic raw materials needed to produce and package quality toothpicks. All it takes is for investors to identify...
How farmers can optimise yield, profit from maize cultivation
As the world economy is ravaged by COVID-19 and inevitable lockdowns, one of the few things that matter to humanity is food, and sustaining...
Evading the Looming Food Scarcity; A Panacea for Africa
More than 60 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is smallholder farmers, and about 23 percent of sub-Saharan Africas GDP comes from agriculture....
Investing In Poultry Value Chain Business
Poultry farming is the raising of domesticated birds such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese, for the purpose of farming meat or eggs for...
Achieving accelerated wheat production in Nigeria
Given both its burgeoning population and current global health and economic crisis, the need to improve food security in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. Wheat...
GMO Plants And Potentials To Improve Immunity And General Wellbeing
It is a fact that our immune systems do a remarkable job at fighting off foreign cells to protect us against diseases. Varying factors...
Technological interventions in mitigating impacts of COVID-19
The resilience of the livelihoods of African farmers who constitute nearly 65% of the population will inevitably be tested during and after the pandemic....
COVID-19: Bleak planting season signals looming famine
• Acute Food Insecurity Could Worsen In Nigeria This Year —Report • Access To Market, Inputs Are Serious Challenges — Tsekohol • Farmers Are Forced To Stay-At-Home...
Tackling child labor in cassava through improved weed control
Weeds are major constraints to cassava production in Africa, contributing to yield reduction and placing a huge burden on the lives of farmers, especially...
Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Africa’s Agriculture
What the Coronavirus (COVID–19) Means for African Family Farmers and Fishermen Release. Executive Summary In this new report, “Impact of COVID–19 on Africa’s Agriculture: What the...
Top 5 Emerging Trends In The Field Of Agriculture
Nothing is perfect and everything can go under many changes and improvements. The IT sector is all set to revolutionize the world, so how can...
COVID-19 And Agribusiness In Nigeria (2)
Setting perspectives at a recent stakeholders’ forum, President of the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), Dr. Agnes Kalibata noted that...
