There is need to support realization of potentials of high yielding crops with fertilizer---Agric minister

Chief Audu Ogbeh

* Nigeria will save N1.71b if adopts UDP

The minister of agriculture and rural development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said it was important to recognize the need to support the realization of the genetic potential of our increasingly high-yielding crop varieties being adopted by Nigeria’s numerous farmers with appropriate fertilizer.

New helmsman resumes at BOA for re-capitalization

Central Bank Governor.

The new managing director, Bank of Agriculture (BOA) Dr. Kabiru Mohammed has officially taken over the management leadership of the bank , and this is towards ensuring the N500 billion recapitalization meant to address credit challenges to both small and large scale farmers.

Editorial- Don’t subject Research Institutes to ridicule

Research

The deplorable conditions of most research Institutes in Nigeria should be a concern for anybody who may have witnessed what it used to be during the colonial era in the time past. The legacies left behind In the research institutes are almost disappeared in many of these Institutes as a result of paucity of funds.

DISBURSEMENT OF FADAMA APPROVED LOAN 2010 FADAMA III

         DISBURSEMENT OF FADAMA APPROVED LOAN 2010 FADAMA III

N39 Billion debt: Agro dealers stage peaceful protest in Abuja

Agro-dealers

The Growth Enhancement Scheme Agro-dealers Association of Nigeria (GESAAN) took to the streets of Abuja on Tuesday to protest the non payment of a N39 Billion outstanding debt owed them by the Federal Government.

Nigerian farmers can now export fish, as Ogbeh signs law

Group picture

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has reinforced the existing aquaculture Act by signing a regulatory law that will ensure standard of exportable farmed fishes into other countries in  Europe and America.

‘NCAM have all categories of Equipments that meet the need of small scale farmers’

Engr. (Dr) M.Y Kasali, the Acting Executive Director (ED), National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization Centre (NCAM), Ilorin.

NCAM is a government owned centre with mandate to research into and produce machines for production and processing of crops. Having met this mandate successfully the acting executive director of the centre, Engr. M.Y.Kasali has called for more funding for it to really do more. Excerpts…

Using mechanization to remove drudgery from agric production and processing

Carbornator for juice

·   *FIIRO, NCAM, Fabricators react

 The use of crude implements and methods in agricultural production and processing have negatively impacted on Nigeria’s agricultural practices such that there is low productivity and  a  lot of wastages resulting in  high import bill on various types of  food crops and livestock to the tune of 50 billion dollar yearly, thereby hindering the country’s  development and job creation efforts.

Proliferation of bodies inimical to optimum performance in agriculture, says Prof. Ahmed

Prof. Sani Miko Ahmed

The Country Representative, SAA-SG2000 Prof. Sani Miko Ahmed has frowned at the many associations springing up among the Agricultural Practitioners of Nigeria saying a unified body would be more potent to fighting sub-standard practices in the sector.

Ethiopia: Smart Technologies to Ensure Sustainable Farming

farmers

"There is something that we are not doing properly, that is why we keep on falling short of feeding the whole Africa," mutters Dr. Kodjo P. Abassa, trying to get comfy on his chair. Dr. Abassa, former Adviser at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, has worked for more than 25 years in the field of sustainable agriculture and biotechnology.