GMO: Minister owns up, ask for experts’ help

Chief Audu Ogbeh at the National Farms' Helpline Centre at NAERLS

·        Trial farms is approval to safety

The Minister, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) Chief Audu Ogbeh has expressed incapability to defend Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops saying a lot of petitions have come to his office wanting to know the experts position.

Full text of Agric Minister to four ABU Research Institutes last week.

Minister of Agric, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Prof. I. U Abubakar. Ex.  Director IAR& Prof. C. A. M Lakpini, Ex. Director,  NAPRI 

Ahmadu Bello University has been always home since I left more than 46 years ago. I was in Usman Dan-Fodio hall in 1969, went to Dakar to do a year abroad in 1970, came back to round up in 1972 with teaching at the Institute of education for a while, went for my master degree, and came back 1977 to leave for Makurdi as the head, department of languages at the college of Art and Science before I wondered off to this very tricky business of politics. So it is real joy for me to be here. 

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.