SGF demands accurate data for agriculture

The Statisticians-General of the Federation (SGF) Dr. Yemi Kale

The Statisticians-General of the Federation (SGF) Dr. Yemi Kale has called for accurate data to better planning and development of agriculture towards achieving food security through efficient productivity in Nigeria and Africa.  

Future group ties up with USAID horticulture & agriculture marketing programme

Future group ties up with USAID horticulture & agriculture marketing programme  

Future group, through its various retail formats including Big Bazaar, is collaborating with USAID Commercial Horticulture and Agricultural Marketing Programme (CHAMP) to deliver mutual benefits to Indian consumers and Afghanistan horticultural producers.

Sachin Bansal sets sights on Fin & Agri tech to stage comeback

The Flipkart cofounder will establish a holding company through which he will run his new businesses and make investments, said two people familiar with his plans.

The Flipkart cofounder will establish a holding company through which he will run his new businesses and make investments, said two people familiar with his plans. Bansal, 37, has brought in Ankit Agarwal, whom he has known from his IIT-Delhi days, as a partner and founding employee of this platform, they said.

NAQS boss warns dealers on the use sniper

·       Describes pesticide as weapon of ‘mass destruction’

The Coordinating Director (CD), Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) Dr. Vincent Isegbe

 The Coordinating Director (CD), Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) Dr. Vincent Isegbe has warned beans dealers against the use of a pesticide called ‘’sniper’’ as food produce preservation saying its chemical is too toxic for human consumption.

News Release- WFP distributes milling machines to improve the lives of 5,000 displaced families in Borno State

The Milling Machines are improving the lives of families in Borno State

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners have commenced the distribution of 766 milling machines to 5,000 displaced families in Northeast Nigeria to ease the problems they face in processing grains.

NABDA promises more GMO items for Nigeria

·         *Budget planning to support

Group Picture during the end of year media party organised to journalists

The Acting Director General (DG), National Agricultural Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA)  Prof. Alex  Akpo  has said that more Genetically Modified (GM) Crops with bio fertilizers and pesticides  are expected to be produced in Nigeria against next year  just as he added the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning is ready to give support to the plan. He stated this during the end of year media party organised to journalists.

FIIRO tasks stakeholders on value addition

The Director General, Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO), Prof.(Mrs) Gloria Elemo

Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have been advised to go beyond production of produce and its export, but also do value-addition through processing for better market and for wealth and job creation.

Disease control: FAO, Agric Ministry partner on capacity building

The FAO Country Representative, Nigeria H.E. Suffyan Koroma

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) through the Emergency Centre for Trans-Boundary Animal Disease (FAO – ECTAD), in collaboration with the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) have recently conducted a three-day extensive training of animals and livestock stakeholders on how to curtail Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ( HPAI) outbreak and other affiliated animal diseases that could be economically disadvantageous to farmers.

LIBERAL PLATFORM HONOURS DR ODEDINA WITH OUTSTANDING AWARD

LIBERAL PLATFORM HONOURS DR ODEDINA WITH OUTSTANDING AWARD

Dr Samson Adeola Odedina has been honoured with an outstanding award by the Liberal Platform at the 3rd Edition of the IMERI Convergence held on Saturday, 15th December, 2018, at Dipo Resort, Imeri, Ondo State.

NASS threatens NIRSAL with anti-graft agencies over seeds quality

·       SEEDAN, Seed Council want N10b GESS debt paid

Group picture

The National Assembly has vowed to drag Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) officials to either Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission (ICPC) or Economic and Financial Crime Commissions (EFCC) for noncompliance to technical procurement procedure standard of quality seeds to farmers through the registered companies that could give tracking and checkmate adulteration in its ongoing programme just as stakeholders asked for the payment of outstanding debt.