Dangote Group Expand Investments into Agriculture, Mining

Dangote

The Dangote Group has expanded its investments into agriculture and mining, Mansur Ahmed, Executive Director, Corporate Communications of the group, said in Kano.

Bank of Agriculture to assist with loans

Bank of Agriculture (BOA)

The Bank of Agriculture (BOA) says it is ready to provide financial assistance to farmers and youths in the country to boost food production through mechanised farming.

England’s Paignton Zoo: Feeding Animals from the Ground Up

The Paignton Zoo, located in Devon, England, explores the potential of hydroponics and vertical farming through its VertiCrop project, and the zoo uses the bounties as animal feed.

The Paignton Zoo, located in Devon, England, utilizes vertical farming practices to nourish some of its approximately 2,000 animals. Since 2009, this hydroponic vertical growing system, VertiCrop, has diversified animal feed while increasing its nutritional density.

Declining Food Prices May Affect Farmers – FAO

farmers

Declining prices can thwart international efforts to eradicate hunger and  poverty unless steps are taken to guarantee decent incomes and livelihoods for small-scale producers, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General José Graziano da-Silva has  said.

Kano youths embrace sugarcane business

Sugarcane plantation

As the harmattan season approaches, youths have taken to sugarcane business in Kano State

London’s GrowUp Box Explores the Potential of Aquaponics

GrowUp Urban Farms’ The GrowUp Box, located in RoofEast, Stratford, harvests approximately 400 greens, herbs, and microgreens as a result of its aquaponics system and greenhouse featuring vertical farming techniques.

GrowUp Urban Farms’ The GrowUp Box utilizes aquaponics and vertical gardening methods to cultivate approximately 400 greens, herbs, and microgreens. English eateries purchase this produce. The GrowUp Box started in 2014 and is located in RoofEast.

CBN Grants Anambra State N3bn

CBN

Anambra state Governor, Willie Obiano while at the flag-off of training for the first batch of 150 youths at the Federal Youths Training Centre, Mgbakwu near Awka on Friday, said the state has secured a 3 billion naira grant from the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) to invest in SMEs and agriculture.

Police urge farmers/herdsmen to embrace peace

Nigeria-police

Police Commissioner in Gombe State, Mr. Austin Iwar, has urged farmers and members of the state’s Cattle Breeder Association to reconcile their seeming differences and embrace peaceful coexistence.

Abia targets 10,000 hectares of oil palm plantation by 2018

Okezie Ikpeazu

The Abia State Government has embarked on what it termed oil palm revolution as a way to economic sustainability in the face of the economic recession in the country and the dwindling fortunes of the crude oil business.

Diversification: Atiku Canvasses Modern Agric Techniques

Atiku Abubakar

Atiku Abubakar has urged Nigerians to embrace modern agricultural techniques to ensure economic diversification and sustainability in the country.