Cashew industry needs more funding, to boost foreign reserves-NCAN President

Cashew

The cashew industry requires N100 billion to fund production and boost foreign earnings, the National President, National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN), Pastor Babatola Faseru, has said.

Polly Dalton Pursues Her Dreams with Farming

Food Tank highlights Farmer Polly Dalton in the Farmer Spotlight Series.

Hello, my name is Polly Dalton. I'm 24 years old and I've been farming for 4 years. I grow annual vegetables, flowers, herbs, and fruit in my farm in Custer, Wisconsin.

Sorghum with higher iron hit market

Sorghum

The release of two new nutritionally high sorghum varieties, one with three times higher iron content, will be a boost for farmers as well as the malnourished populations, especially children in Nigeria,Daily Trust Reports.

Eliminating Toxic Pesticides from Our Food and Environment

Beyond Pesticides’ Stephanie Davio discusses the organization’s efforts to eliminate the use of toxic pesticides in agriculture.

Beyond Pesticides is working to change local, state, and national pesticide policy in order to protect health air, water, land, and food for ourselves and future generations.

FG opens cow milk processing plant in Yola

cow milk

The Federal Government has opened a milk collection and processing facility in Yola, in partnership with a Fulani community and Modibbo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH).

‘Increase Food Production 100% Or Risk Hunger’

Chief Audu Ogbe

With an agenda to ensure a hunger free nation, the federal government has urged Nigerians to increase food production by 100 per cent in order to meet the needs of citizens or risk hunger when the population increases, writes Ruth Tene Natsa.

RAW MATERIALS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (RMRDC) DRAFT COMMUNIQUÉ ISSUED AT THE END OF THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND UTILIZATION ORGANIZED.

 RAW MATERIALS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (RMRDC

Following extensive deliberations on issues raised during the presentation of papers, participants noted the following:-

1.      That economic diversification and the promotion of resource-based SMEs are necessary for healthy, sustainable and inclusive economic development.

Nigerian flour millers promise wheat production off take.

Stakeholders

The Chairman, Flour Millers’ Association of Nigeria has promised its commitment to off take farmers’ wheat production with readiness to support with harvesters so as to reduce drudgery during harvest after production. 

Scandinavia’s First Zero Packaging Supermarket Opens This Summer

 First Zero Packaging Supermarket

It is estimated by Eurostat that 156 kg (343.9 lb) of packaging waste are generated per person per year in the European Union. According to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 42 kg (92.6 lb) of edible food waste are produced per person per year in Denmark.

Fertilizer scarcity looms, as 135 trucks still held in Lokoja

fertilizer

Dealers of fertilizer in Kano State yesterday appealed to the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, ensure immediate release of the fertilizers impounded by soldiers in Kogi State in order to end its scarcity in the Northern part of the country.