Groups Reject Planned Introduction of Genetically Modified Maize, Cotton in Nigeria

 Maize

No fewer than 100 rights groups and faith-based organizations have opposed attempts to introduce genetically modified (GM) cotton and maize into Nigeria's food and farming systems.

Group advocate youths mobilisation for agricultural opportunities

Informal Workers Association of Nigeria

The Federation of Informal Workers Association of Nigeria (FIWON), an NGO, has called for the mobilisation of youths to develop agricultural potentials in Osun state.

Yobe To Support IDPs With Agricultural Inputs – SEMA

Internally Displaced Persons

The Yobe Government has pledged to support Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) relocating to their communities with agricultural inputs to boost farming and promote economic rehabilitation.

Utilize agricultural opportunities in Ondo- Mimiko tells farmers

Dr Olusegun Mimiko

Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has charged the pro-farmers attached to the state’s newly established 1,000 daily capacity Chicken Processing Plant to make maximum use of the opportunities in the entire agricultural value chain they are being exposed to, in order to become an employer of labor in the nearest future.

Enugu state Agric commissioner insist on private sector driven tractorization

FG

The Agric Commissioner, Enugu state, Engr M.C.C Eneh has said it would be very retrogressive to bring the old system of inputs distribution through government procurement in the face of fighting corruption just as Hon. Munir Babba Dungundi suggested the need for Growth Enhancement Support (GES) law for effective operation thereby having a different position from Kaduna state commissioner, Dr. Manzo Daniel Maigari who wanted the programme decentralized.

Editorial- Using D-8 on Halal meat to solve herdsmen and farmers’ clashes

 herdsmen

The daily recurrent of clashes between the farmers and herdsmen in the local communities  has brought the issue of the 2013 D-8 meeting held in Abuja into our focus as one of the measures that can be used to checkmate this menace as animals would be contained in a place for better meat fatling for more economic gain running to trillion pounds in the global market.  

Food Shortages Drive People in N'East to IDP Camps

IDP Camp

People uprooted by Boko Haram violence in the northeast are leaving host families and moving to camps for the displaced as food becomes increasingly scarce, the European Commission's humanitarian arm (ECHO) said wednesday.

Country Now World's Largest Producer of Cassava

Cassava

Nigeria has become the largest producer of cassava in the world with an annual output of 45 million metric tons. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Audu Ogbeh, has said.

FG, USAID to partner on Cocoa training

cocoa

The United States Agency for International Development USAID is collaborating with the Federal Government to train major service providers in key cocoa producing states on vegetative propagation, to address the dearth of planting materials.

Cheap Food Is More Expensive Than You May Think

Negative externalities are not accounted for in American food production systems.

The True Cost of American Food Conference will be taking place from April 14 to 17 in San Francisco at Fort Mason's Herbst Pavilion. It is organized by the Sustainable Food Trust, a nonprofit based in Bristol, UK, dedicated to creating a food production system which causes the least possible harm to both humans and the environment.