Agribusiness

NOURISHING AFRICA PARTNERS MASTERCARD FOUNDATION, USADF TO TRAIN 1,000 AGRIPRENEURS

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine June 23, 2021 5 0

As part of the Entrepreneur Support Program (ESP), launched in December 2020, Nourishing Africa in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and United States African Development Foundation (USADF) has trained 1,000 agripreneurs on models to build and scale their businesses. The training Continue Reading

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WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE: HOW FEAR OF HUNGER PUSHED ME INTO AGRICULTURE — FARMER

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine June 14, 2021 24 0

Dunmola Sodeke, the Chief Executive Officer of Omodun farms holds a Masters in Business Administration from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom. A widow and mother of two, she owns farmlands in Lagos, Kwara, Abeokuta and Ibadan. She cultivates vegetables, soy beans and maize and runs a snail and fish farm. In this interview with […]Continue Reading

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

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 28, 2021 66 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

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CONSUMERS PREFERENCE CRITICAL TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA – KUST VC

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 28, 2021 52 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

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NIGERIA SAILS TO SUGAR-SUFFICIENCY WITH 100% LOCAL REFINING

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 28, 2021 74 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

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PREPARE FOR STORMS THAT PUSH YOUR FARM TO THE LIMIT

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 14, 2021 79 0

You can build a weather ready farm by strengthening your farm for the future is key as you battle weather extremes such as the 2019 bomb cyclone in Nebraska; the 2020 derecho across Iowa; hurricanes; sustained drought; or unseasonably cool, wet weather. The ultimate unknown is Mother Nature, but researchers like Gene Takle, professor emeritus […]Continue Reading

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ECOWAS: NIGERIA LEADS WEST AFRICA IN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE PROMOTION

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine April 14, 2021 80 0

The Head of Agriculture Division, ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, Mr Ernest Aubee, has said that Nigeria was leading in the promotion of Organic Agriculture in the West Africa region. Aubee said this in his closing remarks at the cocktail event on `Reporting Back Achievements of Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) Initiative’ activities in Nigeria for the years […]Continue Reading

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REINVIGORATING COFFEE BUSINESS

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine March 23, 2021 104 0

Coffee remains a big revenue spinner in the world market. But Nigeria’s production has fallen to less than 60,000 metric tonnes yearly. Stakeholders are calling for efforts to reposition the industry to enable the country earn more foreign exchange. Coffee is a source of livelihood for more than 12 million households in Africa, says the […]Continue Reading

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AGRICULTURE THE ‘SHINING STAR’ OF SA’S ECONOMY – STATS SA

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine March 17, 2021 155 0

Despite recording the largest decline in 70 years, the contraction in South Africa’s economy in 2020 was not as bad as was initially expected, says Dawie Maree, head of information and marketing at FNB Agriculture  In 2020, the South African economy recorded its most significant decline in annual economic activity since 1946. According to Statistics […]Continue Reading

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DRONEDEPLOY AND CORTEVA BRING IN-FIELD ANALYTICS TO FARMERS

Nigerian Farming Online Magazine February 23, 2021 82 0

Drone data platform DroneDeploy and Corteva Agriscience join forces to bring scalable, in-field analytics to farmers across the globe. DroneDeploy leveraged Corteva’s machine learning algorithms to build its new Stand Assessment solution. Stand Assessment is a complete flight, capture, analysis and reporting workflow designed to determine crop emergence for early-stage Continue Reading