China to Hold First World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops

Root and Tuber Crops

The International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) and The Cassava Partnership for the 21st Century (GCP21) have partnered with the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences (CATAS) and the Guangxi Cassava Research Institute to organise the first World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops, which is scheduled to hold in Nanning, Guanqxi, China, from January 18 to 22.

BOSCH, UNIDO, stakeholders chart way for cassava marketing

cassava

BOSCH, a global supplier of technology and services in partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO, has organized a stakeholders’ consultative meeting in Lagos with farmers to discuss the prospect, challenges and marketing opportunities for cassava production in the country.

Amid drought, Africa reviews GMO crops

Farmers

The drought, which extends to South Africa, the continent’s biggest maize producer, has been exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern and follows dry spells last year that affected countries from Zimbabwe to Malawi.

AfDB, Nigeria to spend $300m on youth agric scheme

Akinwumi Adesina

The African Development Bank, AfDB and the Federal Government of Nigeria are planning for long-term solutions to youth employment in the agricultural sector. They will spend about $300m on the Enable Youth Empowerment Agribusiness Programme.

Agriculture Minister Promises to improve the sector

Chief Audu Ogbeh

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has condemned the movement of the National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike and two others under the ministry of Agriculture to the Education ministry without any amendment in the Act establishing them.

Empowering women key to combating climate change, expert says

Dr Nawal Al Hosani speaking about women and sustainability at an event held on the sidelines of the COP21 climate change summit t

 Abu Dhabi: Empowering women is the best way to combat global warming, an expert has said. “Not only do women better understand the harmful effects of climate change especially on the lives of those in rural and impoverished areas, but empowered women are one of the most effective responses to this phenomenon,” Dr Nawal Al Hosani, Director of the Zayed Future Energy Prize (ZFEP), Director of Sustainability at Masdar, told Gulf News.

Farmers want FG to tackle poultry products’ smuggling

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Poultry and Livestock Farmers Association of Nigeria (POLFAN), Lagos Chapter, has called on the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Alli (rtd.) and all relevant security agencies to tackle smugglers of contraband poultry products, who they alleged, are currently on ‘Yuletide rampage’.

World Bank excludes Nigeria from climate-smart crop distribution

World Bank

World Bank has excluded Nigeria in its climate-smart crops distribution, aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change in Africa.

The apex global Bank had under its West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme, WAAPP, distributed climate-smart crop varieties as well as technologies to over 5.7 million farmers across West Africa.

How Buhari's Govt Plans to Revive Agriculture in Nigeria

Transporting maize to the market.

Chief Audu Ogbeh, a farmer, is the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. In this exclusive interview with Daily Trust on Sunday, he explained why agriculture collapsed in Nigeria and the plans by President Muhammadu Buhari's administration to resuscitate it.

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.