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Organic agribusiness: Sustainable path to development
Nigeria has the need to reposition agriculture in the country for strategic economic development and sustainable food production purposes. This need, is particularly necessitated by the reality of...
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Agric academy gets govt approval, commences March 1
Agric Academy, the training arm of Agriculture and Allied Employees’ Union of Nigeria (AAEUN), instituted under a public-private partnership arrangement with private investors, has been granted...
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BOA to recapitalise for better agribusiness financing
Bank of Agriculture, Kaduna, has disclosed the bank will recapitalise for better service delivery to Nigerian farmers across the country. Managing Director, Professor Danbala Danju, speaking at a...
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Kano wheat farmers to establish flour mills
The Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria in Kano State is set to establish a Flour Mills Company in Kano, the Chairman of the association in the state, Alhaji Faruk Rabiu, has said. Rabiu told the News...
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Ogbeh seeks policies to attract youths in agriculture
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has said that there is need to make huge investment in agriculture which will in turn attract youths into the sector. He also...
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Cassava has huge advantage over maize in animal feeds —Thailand’s researcher
You said cassava could replace maize 100 per cent in animal feeds. How would you describe your experiment in Thailand?
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How to start a worm farm business
According to agropreneurs dealing in worm farming business, vermiculture (the art of breeding and rearing eathworms) is a lucrative business. On the international scale, worm farming is a billion...
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FG moves to bridge knowledge gap within agricultural key players
In its bid to improve agricultural sector through knowledge sharing, the Federal Government launched the Knowledge Management Framework, an initiative to enhance knowledge flows between stakeholders.
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Ogbeh says bank interest rate to farmers will be reviewed
The Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, hascalled on private investors to look for possible ways of introducing tractors and farm machineries that are farmer friendly which...
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Delta: IITA partners Chevron, others on youth agric programme
Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the Joint Venture (JV) between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and CNL (the “NNPC/CNL JV”), launched a youth-in-agriculture (agripreneur)...
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Leveraging cassava production to create jobs, grow economy
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Nigerian cassava production is by far the largest in the world; a third more than production in Brazil and almost double the production of...
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FG wants stakeholders’ involvement in economy diversification
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, has called on stakeholders in the sector to work closely with the government to realign themselves for a progressive life beyond oil....
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‘Nigeria’s poultry production not sufficient for an egg per child programme’
The Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh has said that the recent poultry production in Nigeria cannot be used to sustain the an egg per child school feeding programme which the...
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‘Nigeria spends $1.3bn importing milk due to poor grazing reserves’
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh has said that Nigeria spends over $1.3 billion annually importing milk as a result of inadequate grazing reserves. The minister also said...
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Why farmers are yet to adopt GMOs
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) is a science of moving a material of inheritance from another or related organism into another one so that the organism will behave in that manner of that...
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Agric researches must be end user driven —Don
THE Federal Government and the Ministry of Agriculture have been advised to encourage an end-user-driven agricultural researches and application so that such products will no longer stay forever in the...
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Make local farmers centre of your food production policy, don advises FG
A Professor of Agriculture at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, Professor Oluyemisi Akinyemiju, has advised President Mohammadu Buhari to make peasant farmers the centre of his...
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‘Boko Haram is affecting fish farming in Nigeria’
How is your fish farm fairing?I started breeding this fish this year, I have been feeding them with different types of feeds, some are local while some are foreign. Most of the feed that give them...
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UI trains 1000 Osun indigenes on integrated catfish production
The Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Management, University of Ibadan (UI), on the platform of the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (WECARD), has...
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IITA study reveals gaps in Nigeria’s extension system
A study on the Training Needs Assessment of extension agents in Nigeria has revealed several gaps and constraints that have hitherto limited the effectiveness of extension service in the country....
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