Stakeholders urge FG to provide adequate infrastructures for farmers

Farmers

The Chairman of Abakalike Rice, Hon. Joseph Nnunu, has charged the Federal Government to make agricultural infrastructure readily available and accessible to farmers.

Foreign Affairs, CBN pallies NAPRI on Livestock

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The National Livestock Training Programme (NALIT), a public-Private sectors driven model to upscale livestock productivity, under the coordination of National Animal Production Research Institute (NAPRI) has received a positive nod from Federal Ministry of Foreign Affair (FMRA) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to achieving market space expansion of the sub sector to the global world through engagement of the youths in capacity building towards standard products of fresh milk, meat and feeds production.

Zimbabwe: Agro Processors' Meeting Set for Tomorrow

Agro Processors'

Food fortification, Grain Marketing Board commercial activities and fertiliser availability are issues high on the agenda of the agro processors meeting to be held tomorrow.

Ghana: Fishermen Agree to Put a Stop to Light Fishing

Fishermen carrying their fishing nets off a boat at Jamestown, Accra.

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Fishermen in the coastal regions of the country have agreed to put a stop to light fishing as a measure of arresting the consistent decline in the stocks of fish within the coastal waters.

Sudan: Drinking Water, Bread Shortage in White Nile and North Kordofan

water

A severe drinking water crisis has gripped El Gezira Aba in White Nile state, in south-east Sudan. A bread shortage in El Obeid is causing long queues in front of bakeries.

Malawi, Unicef Launch Humanitarian Drone Testing Corridor - the First Project of Its Kind in Africa

Malawi and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has launched Africa's first air corridor to test the use of drones in humanitarian missions.

FG to compensate 136 poultry farmers who lost their birds to flu

Chicken

The Federal Ministry of Finance will soon commence the payment of N438 million compensation to 136 poultry farmers, in 22 local councils, who lost their birds to avian influenza in Kano.

Food Security in the Niger Delta

food Stuff

The Superhighway project has been controversial from the day it was first announced publicly for many reasons. First, it was routed without regard to the negative impacts it would have on the Cross River National Park (CRNP) and a number of community forests in its path.

PRESS RELEASE -FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO END FARMERS/HERDSMEN CLASHES­­­­­­­­­-INAUGURATES LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE.

Chief Audu Ogbeh

The Federal Government in her determination to end the regular clashes between Farmers/Herdsmen which result in huge loss of lives, crops and properties has inaugurated a Local Organizing Committee.

Agriculture Group: Drought Has Cost Italian Farmers 1 Billion Euros

Drought

Soaring temperatures and a lack of rainfall across Italy have cost farmers 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion) so far this year, the national agricultural association said on Friday.