A leading global player in livestock turnkey projects, Agrotop, has made known its intention to build a large-scale pullet and breeding farm for Agrited, Nigeria’s leading supplier of poultry products. The newly built Blue Plains Farm located in Ibadan, Oyo State, will accommodate six Continue Reading
Month: March 2019
The Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA) says increasing cotton farming is the first step towards reviving local textile companies in the country. The Director-General of KADCCIMA, Alhaji Usman Saulawa said this when the leadership of the chamber paid a Continue Reading
AS Nigeria’s drive to boost food security and fight off insect pest, concerns about plant health is gathering momentum in the country and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region. Plants in the West African Sub region in the recent past have been attacked by various pests Continue Reading
Pig farming is not as advanced in Nigeria compared to that of South Africa, Kenya and other countries in Africa. However, we are also not doing badly in Nigeria. Government must, however, give more support to pig farmers to thrive. On the part of farmers, we must see how we can add value to the Continue Reading
Sharp decline in global oil prices in recent years, depletion of the nation’s foreign exchange earnings and consequent economic hardship in the country have compelled the Federal Government to make a move for diversification of the economy with a focus on agriculture and solid minerals Continue Reading
An annual investment of N50 billion over the next five years is needed to scale up plant health infrastructure to meet the demand for food and export in the country, the Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) has said. The agency said Nigeria’s population is projected to reach 236 Continue Reading
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has promised to introduce new programmes and projects that will make agriculture more attractive to Nigerians and increase jobs in the sector. Speaking to representatives of community and development associations from Daura Emirate in Katsina State who on Sunday came Continue Reading
• As Mexico Lifts Ban On Commodity • Has Capacity To Generate Billions Of Naira Yearly- FACAN • Holds Great Promise As Economy Booster-AHFEN Cultivation of hibiscus flower holds a lot of potentials for Nigeria as foreign exchange earner. Though it is one area of farming that has been neglected Continue Reading
Speaker, Kano State House of Assembly, Honourable Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, won the Rano, Bunkure and Kibiya Federal constituency to the House of Representatives in the last National Assembly poll, on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He spoke with MURTALA ADEWALE on his plans Continue Reading
A professor of fisheries and aquatic resources management, Anthony Nlewadim, has said that the protection of coastal communities and water bodies from effects of climate change and other anthropogenic sources of degradation are imperative to maintaining a stable and sustainable economy Continue Reading