Farmers Count Swine Fever Losses

Livestock

LIVESTOCK farmers have bemoaned the losses suffered following an outbreak of the African Swine Fever in three provinces in Zambia which has resulted in the slaughtering of almost 10,000 pigs.

One Million Farmers Grow Bio-Fortified Crops in Nigeria - Official

Potato

Dr Paul Ilona, the Country Manager of Harvestplus, an international agriculture organization, says over one million small holder farmers grow bio-fortified food crops in Nigeria.

House Approves Presidential Decree On Joining International Agreement On Olive Oil

Olive Oil

The House of Representatives approved on Monday 8/1/2018 a presidential decree No. 560 / 2017 on joining the International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives, that was adopted in Geneva on October 9, 2015.

Dar Milk Demand Tipped to Double in Three Years

milk

DEMAND for milk is expected to increase in Tanzania from the current average of per capita consumption of 45 litres per year to at least the level that the highest milk consuming country has attained, for instance 100 litres per year.

Farmers Get More Inputs

farmer

Farmers here have started receiving additional inputs for the 2017-18 summer cropping season to ease input shortages which resulted in reduced hectarage for maize, while in some areas they failed to beat the planting deadline.

Image Speaks- Minister of Agric, Chief Audu Ogbeh at the visit to IAR , Samaru, Zaria

Minister of Agric, Chief Audu Ogbeh delivering a speech during his visit to IAR , Samaru, Zaria

Minister of Agric, Chief Audu Ogbeh at the visit to IAR , Samaru, Zaria where all the Directors of ABU agricultural research Institutes table their challenges and the way forward.

Aflatoxin: African experts declare war, lament low awareness

Group Picture at the Country-Led Situation Analysis and Action Planning Validation and Stakeholder Workshop on Aflatoxin, held in Abuja 

As an effort to ensuring food security across the country, experts in the agricultural sector have jointly declared war on “Aflatoxin”, a silent killer, and a threat to food security just as they have agreed to create awareness on the dangers of the fungus to human and animal health.

Meatco Waits to See What Sort of Year Would Be 2018

farmer

The country's meat processing and export company, Meatco, awaits to see how year 2018 would pan out, as the company's board this week start sifting through applications for the position of the chief executive officer, to replace Advocate Vekuii Rukoro who left last year amid controversies.

Minister visits Agric Research Institutes today.

Chief Audu Ogbeh

The Minister, Chief Audu Ogbeh with other management team of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) may today visit the three agricultural research institutes in Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria. This may be the first of its kind by the minister to these institutes since assumption into office.

Mutorwa Blames PS for Farmers' Woes

farmer

The Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, John Mutorwa has blamed the 'suffering' of the Northern Communal Farmers on the Ministry of Works and Transport permanent secretary, Willem Goeiemann.