Improved seeds: DFID galvanizes voices for blockage removal

Nat. Pres, Yam Growers, Processors and Marketers Association, Prof. Simeon Irtwange speaking on partnership with Root and Tuber Research Institute on seedling while Chika of PERL looks on

As the accessibility of farmers in Nigeria to improved seedlings worsen, the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL) and some few select voices in the agricultural sector have interfaced on the need to ensure accessibility of farmers to improved seeds with sustainability through blockages removal in the productivity process.

Mugabe's Food Security Doctorate 'Is a Thoroughly Ill' and 'Not Funny Joke"

President Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe's opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party has described as "thoroughly ill", the granting of an honorary doctorate in agricultural Sciences to President Robert Mugabe by the Lupane State University (LSU), says a report.

Africa: Cooking to Fight Climate Change

 Cooking to Fight Climate Change

What you eat doesn't only affect your own health - it also affects our planet's health. From deciding which food to buy, to how you store and prepare it, you are making decisions that have profound effect on your personal health, as well as the health of your environment.

Three agricultural bills, a secret hearing called public hearing- by Ayeni, Oladehinde.

Senate committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu

As the years go by, this democracy is supposed to be maturing and stable, but it appears that it is only an illusion. Nowadays, it’s as if public hearings a forum organized to obtain public views on matters slated for legislation are being stage-managed.

Nigeria: Niger to Declare 2018 Year of Agricultural Revolution

Niger to Declare 2018 Year of Agricultural Revolution

Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has said that his administration will declare 2018 as the year of "Agricultural Revolution" in the state.

Crisis: NASS summons FCA, ARCN to hearing

House Committee Chairman on Colleges of Agriculture, Hon. Linus Okorie

·        FCA Alumni calls for peace

The House Committee on Colleges of Agriculture, National Assembly has invited all the parties involved in the crisis rocking the Federal College of Agriculture (FCA), Moorplantation, Ibadan and Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) to a hearing schedule for today Monday 20^th November, 2017.

Zimbabwe: Govt Launches District Risk Profiles

World Food Programme

Government has launched District Risk Profiles through the Food and Nutrition Council (FNC) in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) to gather information that will assist in understanding food security and livelihood challenges and provide information on these factors.

Kenya: Tea Farmers Get Sh42 Billion Bonus After 2-Day Delay

Tea Farmers

Small-scale tea farmers started receiving Sh42 billion payment popularly known as bonus Tuesday following a two-day delay occasioned by impromptu holidays last week.

Malawi Needs an Urgent Shift From Relief to Resilience - Chilima

food

Vice President Saulos Chilima says it is high time Malawi breaks the circle of food insecurity arising due to weather shocks by urgently transiting from relief to resilience paradigm.

Pyrethrum or Sun Flower Farming

Pyrethrum Farming

Pyrethrum is a cash crop grown for its natural pyrethrins which are used in formulating insecticides. The flowers are pulverized and the active components, called pyrethrins, contained in the seed cases, are extracted and sold in the form of an oleoresin. Pyrethrins attack the nervous systems of all insects .