How rat-eating monkeys help keep palm oil plants alive

Found as an ingredient in many processed and packaged foods, palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on October 21 have discovered an unlikely ally for palm oil production: pig-tailed macaques.

Unexpected outcomes: Damages to Puerto Rican coffee farms from Hurricane Maria varied

University of Michigan ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer have studied Latin American coffee farms for a quarter century, and they tracked the recovery of tropical forests in Nicaragua following 1988's Hurricane Joan for nearly 20 years.

Transgenic cowpea: FG officially approves commercialization

The Federal Government (FG) through her National Committee on Naming, Registration and Release of Crops Varieties has approved registration and release of a new Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) Cowpea variety for commercialization. This was contained in a press statement jointly released by the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) and Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) Zamaru.

Let organically grown food be included in school feeding programme-Prof. Olowe

The President, Association of Organic agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria (NOAN) Prof. Victor Olowe has advocated for the inclusion of organically grown food to be injected in the Federal Government (FG) home school feeding programme for the purpose of healthy living of our children. He made this statement at a national roundtable discussion on organic held in Abuja yesterday.

Land restoration in Ethiopia pays off but climate change necessitates many strategies

In the last decade, Ethiopia has invested more than US$1.2 billion annually in restoring landscapes in several regions of the country. But despite its big restoration initiatives, Africa's second-most populous country is still insufficiently tracking how projects have helped to recover and boost ecosystem services, a new study shows.

Stakeholders call for soil policy against erosion

 

The Stakeholders in the Agricultural sector have called for the enactment of national soil policy that will give sufficient protection to soil maintenance and its sustainability for food security in view of unabated increasing population towards year 2050.   This position was taken during the 2019 World Soil Day celebration with the theme: “Stop Soil Erosion. Save our Future”.

US corn yields get boost from a global warming 'hole'

The global average temperature has increased 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 100 years. In contrast, the Corn Belt of the U.S., one of the most agriculturally productive regions of the world, has experienced a decrease in temperatures in the summer during the growing season.

Ogun State registers farmers for Anchor Programme

The Ogun State Government has said that  Fifty One thousand, Nine Hundred and Ninety Four (51,994) verified farmers have been registered to partake in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrower Programme (ABP) purposely meant to give financial intervention support to commercial food security on available land of 47,047 hectares.

Images speak at the 2019 Farmers Field Day to show the performance of the Bt cotton, held at the NABDA Premises Abuja.

Images speaks at the 2019 Farmers Field Day to show the performance of the Bt cotton, held at the NABDA Premises Abuja. see more images below....

What's driving tropical deforestation? Scientists map 45 years of satellite images

Tropical forests are under increasing pressure from human activity such as agriculture. However, in order to put effective conservation measures in place, local decision-makers must be able to precisely identify which areas of forest are most vulnerable.