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Agro Mechanisation

BOOST ECONOMY WITH MASSIVE INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURE, NUAAE TELLS GOVERNORS

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The Nigeria Union of Agricultural and Allied Employees (NUAAE) has called on governors of the 36 states of the federation to invest more in agricultural sector in order to boost the nation’s economy. The group noted that the humogous security votes of the governors should be used to improve the Continue Reading

Agro Imports

CBN MAIZE IMPORT BAN: SENTIMENTS, FACTS, AND THE WAY FORWARD

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When it comes to policies and programmes that can potentially impact a vast majority of people’s livelihood and the economy of any nation, data, not sentiments, should drive the conversation and influence decision making. The recent Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) decision to restrict Forex for Continue Reading

Poultry Farming

OSUN POULTRY FARMERS BEG FG TO SAVE LIVESTOCK BUSINESS FROM TOTAL COLLAPSE

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The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Osun State chapter has appealed to the federal government to lift ban on the importation of maize, with a view to saving livestock industry from total collapse. The contended that the development became imperative considering the hardship poultry Continue Reading

Food Security

WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME SUPPLYING FRESH VEGGIES TO KENYAN SCHOOLS

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The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has piloted a project in three schools in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, providing 11,000 pounds or 5.5 tonnes of green beans, peas and broccoli The project has helped to provide lunch 2,200 children over 75 school days. (Image source: The Open Continue Reading

Agro Local News

NUTRITION: WHY FG MUST PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE BY 2030

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As the end of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs gradually approaches, nutritionists, and other stakeholders in the fight against malnutrition have urged government at all levels to bridge the gap between policy statements and implementation of the blueprint on nutrition. Continue Reading

Agro Training

FG SIGNS PACT WITH 25 AGRIC ENTREPRENEURS ON YOUTH, WOMEN TRAINING

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Abia State chapter of Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprise for Niger Delta (LIFE-ND), yesterday, signed a memorandum of understanding with 25 business owners called Incubators or Agro Entrepreneurs for the training of potential persons. The Life-ND is a Federal Government Continue Reading

Agro Local News

OYO TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF AKUFO, ERUWA FARM ESTATES SEPTEMBER

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Oyo State government has said construction work on the Akufo and Eruwa Farm Estates will begin in September. Dr Debo Akande, Executive Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Agribusiness and Director-General of Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency, who disclosed this to Continue Reading

Food Security

ECOWAS MOVES TO RESCUE 7M NIGERIANS FROM FOOD CRISIS

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Determined to alleviate poverty among member states, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) commission has donated 3,999 tonnes of grains to the Federal Government with commitment to salvage over 7 million people currently facing food crisis in the country. Already, the Continue Reading

Agro Imports

REVERSING NIGERIA’S DEPENDENCE ON IMPORTED FOOD THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

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To feed the growing population in Nigeria, many are advocating a change to the age-long way of cultivating and growing our food as we can’t continue to rely on the use of cutlass and hoe, but embrace science and technology. No nation has been able to develop without integrating science and Continue Reading

Cocoa Farming

NGO SUPPORT COCOA FARMERS WITH COVID-19 PALLIATIVES

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As the global pandemic, coronavirus also known as COVID-19 keep spreading, it has really caused great havoc and adverse impact on cocoa farmers in the rural areas; as they have no or limited access to farm inputs, cocoa seedlings and agrochemical to maintain their farms as the main crop season Continue Reading