Research Funding: How integrity helps IAR to survive

 

The Deputy Director (DD), Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) Prof. Nafiu Abdu has said the external funding support had really assisted the Institute especially in the last two years when only 30% of budget funding was released to all agencies to execute their capital projects including research.

Agric Commodity Associations commend IAR

 

The National President, National Sunflower Growers, Processors and Marketers Association ( NSUNGMAN) , Alhaji Jubril Bukar has  commended the Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), Zaria for its consistency in the provision of improved technologies for food sustainability in Nigeria.

FG opens talk on tractors distribution to 774 LGA

 

The Federal Government ( FG) is planning a modality of how tractors utilization at the 774 local government areas would be achieved to farming activities with a solid financial sustainable pay back strategy, involving a Kano based agro limited company.

Editorial: CBN should stop selling fertilizers

 

Our attention has been drawn to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials meddling into selling fertilizers by themselves. This is unconstitutional, and outrightly off its mandate monetary policy.

Varietal Release Committee suspends 4 GM cottons pending NBMA clearance

 

The National Varietal Release Committee ( NVRC) has suspended  four (4) Genetically Modified ( GM) cotton varieties recently released for commercialization at its 36th meeting held in Ibadan.

Lowland Rice Release: NCRI, ICS-CAAS-China announce a new drought tolerant variety-FARO 73

 

The Federal Government ( FG) constituted authority for the release and registration of improved crop varieties for food security, and nutritional value addition has officially approved the commercialization of a lowland rice variety called FARO 73 into the Nigeria market to boost food productivity just as to enhance national sufficiency of the nation's leading staple food.

$134M Agriculture Programme: Officials Debunk Wheat Funding Claims, Reveal Bigger Picture

 

Amid mounting public debate, officials overseeing the National Agricultural Growth Scheme–Agro Pocket (NAGS-AP) have pushed back against claims that a $134 million intervention fund is solely dedicated to wheat production, describing such assertions as misleading and incomplete.

Let us incorporate organisms against excess fertilizers, says IAR Ed

The Executive Director ( ED), Institute for Agricultural Research ( IAR), Zaria, Prof. Yusuf Ado has called on plant breeders to harness the organic nature in micro organisms to checkmate excessive use of inorganic fertilizers on soil and crops production.

Fertilizer Price Scandal: Insiders Allege Sabotage, Massive Procurement Inflation

 

Fresh controversy is rocking Nigeria’s agricultural sector as insider from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security ( FMAFS) has raised an alarm over a deliberate inflation of fertilizer procurement cost within the system.

Varietal registrar announces training for breeders

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology ( NACGRAB), Dr. A.U Okere said the centre would soon embark on breeders' training in order to achieve better varieties registration.