Agriculture Sector Contributes With 12 Percent to GDP

farmer

The Angolan agricultural sector currently contributes only 12 percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a figure still low considering the potential of the country, said today in Luanda, the Secretary of State for Agriculture and Livestock, Carlos Alberto Pinto.

Farmers call for more govt support

Farmers

*Partners Oyaoya for increased market

Farmers under the aegis of Commodity Association for Zero Hunger have called for more support from the Federal Government to enable massive production of food across the country. The call was made during its recently held meeting in Abuja.

ALGON unveils Comprehensive Local Agriculture Plan

Cross section of the Comprehensive Local Agriculture Plan conference held in abuja

·       *  Stakeholders lament local governments absence 

The Association of the Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) has recently in an International Seminar in Abuja unveiled its Comprehensive Local Agriculture Plan project (C-LAP), a project focused at aggregating 774 local government farms, with strong linkages to national retail chains, thereby creating a network for direct agricultural produce delivery from the door step of farmers through its local governments to mega market at state capitals.

Thieves Ditch Shipping Container With Chicken Product Worth R400 000

Chicken

A stolen trailer carrying a 12-metre shipping container with 24 tonnes of chicken, valued at about R400 000, has been recovered in Verulam, north of Durban, police and private security said.

FG, Brazil partner on food security

Chief Audu Ogbeh

*Establishes cottage fish farms in states

Nigeria and Brazil have agreed to explore an inter-ministerial framework for partnership on food security as the Brazilian delegation, led by Minister of External Relations, Aloysio Nines Fereirra, and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh  cemented the cooperation talk on the occasion of the 2017 World Food Celebration.

Nigeria Customs Intercepts 506 Bags of Imported Rice

Rice Bags

The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, said its command in Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara zone had intercepted 506 bags of foreign rice concealed in bags of beans smuggled into the country.

‘We are incurring Demurrage. Collection of import duties on imported agric equipment will make production cost high’ says GM, Goshen Greenland

motor cultivated tractor

The effort of the past administration to diversify and reposition the country’s economy through the removal of import duties on agricultural equipment has been reversed by the Nigerian Customs Service, and this has led to high production cost with negative consequences on small holder farmers across the country.

Revival of Mozambique Grain Institute

Grain

The government has revived and restructured the Mozambique Grain Institute (ICM), giving it the power to coordinate agricultural marketing, the Minister of Industry and Trade, Max Tonela, told the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Wednesday.

Fishery groups merged to enhance productivity

Fish

In a bid to enhance opportunities and productivity in the fisheries industry, various groups in the sector have united to become an Amalgamated Association of Fish Farmers and Aquaculture of Nigeria, said the chairman of the new body, Hon. Hussaini  Abdullahi Roha .

Researchers and policymakers meet in Tanzania to discuss cassava agronomy

IITA Drirector for Central Africa Hub, Dr Bernard Vanlauwe addressing participants at the ACAI meeting in Tanzania

Scientists across Africa and their colleagues in other parts of the world are meeting with policymakers in Tanzania under the auspices of the African Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) to discuss the progress made in the last two years in providing clues to the agronomy of cassava.