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Poultry Farming

CHINESE FASTFOOD CHAIN INTRODUCES PLANT-BASED EGGS

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Eat Just has announced that Chinese fastfood chain Dicos has added the plant-based JUST Egg to its menu in over 500 locations across the country. The chain’s egg patty will now be replaced with JUST Egg’s pre-baked, folded format across 500 Dicos stores in Bejing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Continue Reading

Agro Foreign News

CORONA LOCKDOWN UK SCHOOLS POSES PROBLEMS FOR UK EGG SECTOR

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Moves by the UK Government to suddenly shut schools due to the rapid spread of the new Covid-19 variant are causing problems to egg producers. The move to shut schools just days before pupils were due to go back for the Easter term is leaving producers with huge numbers of spare eggs. Ben Continue Reading

Agro Local News

KANO DISTRIBUTES 5,000 WATER PUMPS TO FARMERS

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The Kano government says it distributed the water pumps to farmers to boost irrigation farming in the state The Kano State government says it has distributed 5,000 water pumps to farmers to boost irrigation farming in the state.The Commissioner for Local Government, Murtala Sule-Garo, Continue Reading

Agro Foreign News

DEADLY SHEEP, GOAT DISEASE THREATENING 80% OF WORLD’S LIVESTOCK — FAO

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The highly contagious animal disease affecting domestic and wild small ruminants was first identified in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1940s. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that the Peste des petits Ruminants (PPR) disease, also known as sheep and goat plague, Continue Reading

Agribusiness

FCT AGRIC TEAM VISITS OGUN ON SHARE-LEARNING, TO REPLICATE “OGUN AGRIC MODEL”

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Attracted by the exemplary Agricultural practice of the Ogun State Government, a delegation from the Federal Capital Territory Agricultural Development Programme (FCT-ADP) as well as the Agric and Rural Development Secretariate (ARDS) recently visited the state with the aim of understudying it. Continue Reading

Poultry Farming

POULTRY FARMERS RAISE ALARM OVER HIGH COST MAIZE

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Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) in South West on Tuesday lamented the high cost of maize saying serious hunger may hit the country, if nothing is done within a stipulated period of time. The association also noted that, if urgent attention is not given to the lingering crisis of Continue Reading

Agribusiness

STERLING BANK: LEADING THE CHARGE FOR NIGERIA’S AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

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Abubakar Suleiman, CEO, Sterling Bank Plc Nigeria is making frantic efforts to ensure that agriculture and allied services play a key role in its quest for economic and revenue diversification. This stems from the humongous negative impact of the drop in oil prices on the economy. To support Continue Reading

Agro Local News

NIGERIA’S BUSHMEAT CONSUMPTION RISES DESPITE COVID RISK

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Regardless of possible links to zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19, consumption of wildlife, or “bushmeat” is widespread in Nigeria’s top cities, a new survey report reveals. Factors like taste, culture, and health concerns are major drivers to the consumption of bushmeat in Nigeria’s urban Continue Reading

Agro Foreign News

AUSTRALIA TAKES BARLEY TRADE WAR WITH CHINA TO THE WTO

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The ongoing trade spat between Australia and China has taken a new twist as the Aussies have now requested assistance from the WTO. At the height of the argument are trade tariffs imposed by China on several agricultural goods from Australia, but more so the huge 80% tax on barley that was Continue Reading

Agribusiness Tips and Solutions

IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIC FARMING

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While there’s no formal or universal definition for organic farming, it can be defined as one or more systems of production which don’t use synthetic fertilizers, man-made pesticides, herbicides, growth regulators, antibiotics, hormone stimulants organic farming and/or livestock feed additives Continue Reading