Avian flu strikes more flocks in France, Nigeria, Taiwan

Diane Borgreen / USFWS / Flickr cc Swabbing a duck for avian flu.

France's agriculture ministry today announced another highly pathogenic H5 avian flu outbreak in poultry, affecting another new area in the southwestern part of the country, raising the total so far to 66.

The 2016 budget

2016 budget

 The 2016 budget recently presented to the joint session of the National Assembly (NA) by PMB has tactical placed agriculture at the subsidy end unlike the Education, Defence, Interior, Health ministries that were conspicously mentioned with high proposal for approval.

Rice and the Economy

rice

Nice "subject" for discuss, in economic terms and government responsibility to rice produce in the face of import substitution, the best option is backward integration with invigorated support policy as provided in 2014 rice policy that targets 2017 production sufficiency until default in the implementation process especially on the part of Nigerian Custom Service who are now strong advocate for the lifting of ban on rice passing through land borders they knew were not properly manned for whatever reasons. 

We link up women to a better agricultural skill says Chairperson NNEW

NECA’s Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW)

The chairperson, NECA’s Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW), Mrs. Ekaette Umoh has assured female farmers who are interested in taking agriculture as a business more skill acquisition through linking them up with appropriate institution for more technical knowledge of standard practicing of farming towards making profit and good living.

IITA Cassava Weed Management Project signs MoU with SON

The Cassava Weed Management Project

The Cassava Weed Management Project, which is being managed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), an agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria that ensures manufactured products entering Nigerian market give the required degree of satisfaction to consumers through compliance with government policies on standardization and conformity assessment.

Nigeria enlists in Integration project by Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research

Stakeholders present at the CGIAR Site Integration National Consultation Workshop held in Nigeria

In a bit to ensure proactive food security, the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has listed Nigeria to join other countries of the world towards ensuring an integrated project site for proper alignment and harmonization of National and International activities going in the country as related to farming. 

ORF, PPR (Paste Dit Petid Ruminantivin), KATA- a serious disease affecting livestock and man

scabby lesions on the lips and nostrils of affected goat

ORF, PPR ( Paste Dit Petid Ruminantivin), KATA are all names to identify this highly contagious viral disease that causes painful scabby lesions on the lips and nostrils of affected sheep’s and goats during  9days  incubation period. It is a significant welfare problem for both sheep and goats not just in Nigeria but worldwide and is regarded as being in the top 20 most important viral diseases affecting the rural poor in developing countries.ORF is a zoonotic infection (which can spread from animals to humans) so it also poses a significant health risk to humans who come in contact with infected animals.

CEO, King Aliba Farms explains why is planting exotic crops

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) King Aliba Farms has thrown more light on the economic importance of exotic fruits and vegetable to health and food security saying is very popular among the rural people in the country. Read his excerpt with us the convention of the organic stakeholders at Abuja.

 Can you introduce yourself sir?

I am Taoheed Bala Usman, the Chief Executive, King Aliba Farms, a farmer and government worker.

Ethnol : Ekiti state partners NCGA for production- *agric commissioner cautions Fulani herdsmen *

1.       Ekiti State Agric Commissioner, Hon. Peter Kehinde Odebunmi with PS Engr.  E.O  Abegunde

The Ekiti state government under the directive of Mr. Ayodele Peter Fayose has approved 100 hectares of land to Nigeria Cassava Grower Association of Nigeria (NCGA) for the plantation of cassava tubers towards the production of ethanol just as the agric commissioner of the state also emphasized the need to curb the nefarious activities of herdsmen who are intentionally destroying farms in the state. 

IITA wins Outstanding Research Award, dedicates to farmers

Director General, IITA, Dr. Nteranya Sanginga,

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture has received the Outstanding Research Institute award from the Nigeria-based Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL). IITA was honored for its sterling leadership in agricultural research in Nigeria in particular, and sub Saharan Africa in general.