We’ve 80% cocoa farmers’ data for high productivity says re-elect CAN President

CAN National President Sayina Rima, with CAN Stakeholders

In a bit to ensure increase production of Covoa from present level of 250,000 metric tons to one million in the country, the reelect president of Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN) Mr. Sayina Rima has said the association was able to collate about 80% data information of members across the producing states in the country at all the value chains saying all necessary information about a farmer are captured. Read the excerpt of his interview below.

Miyetti Allah Commends FG For Providing Grazing Areas For Fulani Pastoralists

Miyetti Allah

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, the umbrella socio-cultural association of Fulanis in Nigeria and Diaspora has commended the Federal government for its renewed efforts in providing grazing areas for the Fulani Pastoralist and pledged their total support to the initiatives.

Livestockpolicy: how fodder solution can help to checkmate farmers/Pastoral conflict

livestock

Many agricultural experts have agreed that injecting modern day technologies into Nigeria policy of feeding livestock would save us from many conflicts frequently recorded between herdsmen and farmers presently in Nigeria.

FG to ban importation of wheat, sugar, cotton, others by 2018 –Trade Minister

Aisha Abubakar

The Minister of State for In­dustry, Trade and Investment, Aisha Abubakar, on Wednes­day disclosed that the Federal Government would ban the importation of six commodi­ties by 2018.

Rescuing animal productivity from FMARD internal crisis

Chief Audu Ogbeh.

The challenges facing animals productivity in the country may be deepened if appropriate steps are not taken to correct the internal posting recently carried out in the Department of Animal and Husbandry of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD).

NCAM bill passes second reading at the National assembly

ncam 2016 training calendar

The Lower chambers of the National Assembly led by Hon.YakubuDogara  has passed the second reading of a bill asking for a new Act to empower  National Agricultural Mechanization Centre (NCAM) to effectively perform its function through funding to researching into simple agricultural tools that will reduce drudgery in the farm.

National Committee registers 17 new crops varieties, NASC insist on local production

Prof. Olusoji Olafajo, with National Chairman Varietal registration, Chief Oladosun Awoyomi and CEO NACGRAB, Dr. Sunday Alade

Another seventeen new hybrid crops has been registered this year by the National Committee on Naming, Registration and Release of Crop Varieties, Livestock Breeders and Fisheries at the National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACRAB), Ibadan, Oyo state.

‘Beware of famine’- Ondo farmers warn

 famine

Farmers, under the auspices of the Ondo State Agricultural Commodities Association (OSACA), on Wednesday, warned of an imminent famine that would further worsen the already bad situation of the agriculture sector of the country.

Fulani herdsmen strike fear into Nigerian villagers

A man with a bandaged head walks outside the hospital on May 5, 2016 after surviving a Fulani herdsman attack in Nsukka, south-east Nigeria. Photo: AFP/Stefan Heunis

OKOKOLO – Blessing Joseph lies on a sofa, her eyes fixed on the butt of a rifle that she says she won't hesitate to use if Fulani herdsmen come back to her remote village in central Nigeria.

Our ordeal during insurgency says Provost, Fed College of Fresh Water Fisheries Technology, Baga, Maiduguri.

Mrs (Dr) Roselyn Obande

The Provost, Federal College of Freshwater Fisheries Technology, Mrs (Dr) Roselyn Obande has expressed the need for more peace in the North East of Nigeria pleading with government to come to the aid of the farmers and farming activities in the region as many lives and properties have been lost to insurgency in the last five years which did not spare her College. In her interview with Food Farm News at Maiduguri she advised that youths should harness opportunity in fisheries to create job forthemselves. Read the excerpts of her chat with us.