At last, cassava flour inclusion bill scales through

Cassva Bread

·       NAFDAC, SON ask for standard control on fertilizer

The cassava flour (mandatory inclusion in flour production) bill 2016 has scaled through the senate just as two other bills namely  the bill for an Act to provide for the establishment of the National Livestock identification and Management Bureau and the one for an Act to regulate the manufacture, importation, distribution and quality control of fertilizer were set to be amended for more inclusion by stakeholder before passage  by the Senate Committee on Agriculture chaired by  Sen. Abdullahi  Adamu at the public hearing  held by the committee at the National Assembly last week at Abuja.

Gambia: Farmers Raise Voices of Concern,Agric. Minister Responds

Farmers

Farmers in the length and breadth of the Gambia, have raised their voices on the threats to food security. All the farmers who spoke on the Agriculture Minister's tour have lamented the same situational problem: lack of seeds, fertilizer, farm implements, lack of adequate water or rain for the crops and animal intrusion on farm lands.

South Africa: Philippi's Vegetables Feed the Hungry

vegetables.

Many people living near the farms of the Philippi Horticultural Area depend on them for cheap or free vegetables.

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.