Agro Technology

MAKING FARMERS ICT-COMPLAINT

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There are efforts by the government at all levels to train farmers on the use of appropriate technologies for the production and processing of produce to make them better One dream of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, is to help farmers Continue Reading

Aquaculture

HOW TO SAVE TILAPIA INDUSTRY

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 29, 2021 30 0

Stakeholders believe tilapia can play an important role in food sufficiency. But there are challenges The global tilapia industry is booming. In 2018, the market volume reached 6.4 million tonnes. Looking forward, Tilapia Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2019-2024 report published by the Research and Markets, a United Continue Reading

Agro Exports

ITA, NEPC LAUNCH FIRST E-LAB INNOVA TRAINING FOR AGRIBUSINESSES

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 29, 2021 25 0

The Italian Trade Agency (ITA), a governmental agency that supports business development, partnerships and collaborations between Italian companies and their local counterparts, has launched the first E-Lab Innova in Nigeria. The E-Lab Innova is an educational training program for the agri-food sector in Nigeria, which will be implemented in collaboration with the Nigerian Continue Reading

Dairy Farm

VALUE4DAIRY CONSORTIUM WILL DRIVE DAIRY INDUSTRY GROWTH

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 29, 2021 25 0

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the strategic partnership of FrieslandCampina WAMCO, URUS, Barenbrug, and Agrifirm tagged Value4Dairy Consortium and their commitment to boost local dairy production will accelerate growth in the industry. Osinbajo made this known at the recent virtual launch of the consortium. “With FrieslandCampina WAMCO as the processor to Continue Reading

Agribusiness

HERE ARE MIRA MEHTA’S 4 M’S TO MAKING FARMING A BUSINESS

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 28, 2021 25 0

Farming in Nigeria is not an easy task and can be quite frustrating, especially in the face of insecurity and challenges of changing climate. Most smallholder farmers in Nigeria still practice farming as a lifestyle and not as a business and this has made them remain perpetually poor, thus making the venture unattractive to youths. […]Continue Reading

Agribusiness

CONSUMERS PREFERENCE CRITICAL TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA – KUST VC

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 28, 2021 25 0

The Vice Chancellor, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Prof. Shehu Alhaji Musa, has said consideration of consumption preference is critical to agricultural development in Nigeria. The professor of Agricultural Economics and Extension, worried that inspite of the huge deposited natural resource, Nigeria is still listed by Food and Agriculture Organisation Continue Reading

Agro Machinery

FG TARGETS 60,000 TRACTORS TO DRIVE AGRIC MECHANIZATION

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 28, 2021 20 0

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Sabo Nanono says the Federal Government is targeting 60, 000 tractors to drive the agricultural mechanisation programme. The programme will bring about a paradigm shift from subsistence practice to commercial agro-industrial farming for food production, procurement of agricultural processing plants, fertiliser Continue Reading

Agribusiness

NIGERIA SAILS TO SUGAR-SUFFICIENCY WITH 100% LOCAL REFINING

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 28, 2021 26 0

It appears Nigeria may be on a smooth sail on its trajectory to sugar-sufficiency as it is now completely refining raw sugar locally, said Zacch Adedeji, the new executive secretary of the National Sugar Development Council. Adedeji, who has been on an assessment tour of Nigeria’s three major refineries in order to implement the Nigerian […]Continue Reading

Cattle Farming

SHE’S DRIVEN BY SOIL HEALTH AND PASTURE MANAGEMENT

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 21, 2021 65 0

Jeannie Franceus has knocked back weeds on her ranch with rotational grazing. Jeannie Franceus strains against a tangle of poly wire fencing and posts. With nimble bare fingers she untangles strands of the white wire, then whips a short section of fence over a lush growth of prairie grasses, pulling hard and fastening it to […]Continue Reading

Agro Financing

OPERATING LOANS DRIVE DECLINE IN AG LENDING

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 21, 2021 67 0

With federal pandemic aid in their hands, farmers and ranchers borrowed far less money than usual from ag bankers during the opening months of this year for equipment, livestock, and operating expenses. With federal pandemic aid in their hands, farmers and ranchers borrowed far less money than usual from ag bankers during the opening months […]Continue Reading