‘Agric mechanization: solution to food insecurity, unemployment’

  Nigeria to export rice in two years----Minister

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono & the Executive Governor of  Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono has stated that agricultural mechanization is the solution to unemployment and food insufficiency in Nigeria. This was contained in a press statement issued and made available to Food Farm News by Ezeaja Ikemefuna on behalf of director of Information in the ministry.

Reduced soil tilling helps both soils and yields

Agriculture degrades over 24 million acres of fertile soil every year, raising concerns about meeting the rising global demand for food.

How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?

Scientists are homing in on what a healthy human microbiome looks like, mapping the normal bacteria that live in and on the healthy human body. But what about a healthy plant microbiome?

How flowers adapt to their pollinators

Flowering plants are characterized by an astonishing diversity of flowers of different shapes and sizes.

First 'lab in a field' experiment reveals a sunnier side of climate change

Pioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed an unexpected plus side of climate change for farmers.

Farmers hail FG, Ogun for rice milling centres location

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The representative of the leader, cluster youth farmers, Mr. Yakub Olowookere has hailed the Federal and Ogun state Governments for the  rice processing centres and  irrigation facility located very close to end users at Yelwa North local Council saying their advantages for agricultural development would be enormous to job and wealth creations. This was stated in a press release made available to Food Farm News.

Less rice, more nutritious crops will enhance India's food supply

India can sustainably enhance its food supply if its farmers plant less rice and more nutritious and environmentally-friendly crops, including finger millet, pearl millet, and sorghum, according to a new study from the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.

A 'Jackalope' of an ancient spider fossil deemed a hoax, unmasked as a crayfish

Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China by area fossil hunters -- possibly a huge ancient spider species, as yet unknown to science.

Why Nigeria may not stop rice importation

There is no indication that serious effort towards increasing rice productivity in Nigeria to checkmate importation is being put in place even at the closure of land borders by the Federal Government (FG). Food Farm News has gathered.

Sorghum study illuminates relationship between humans, crops and the environment in domestication

A new study that examines the genetics behind the bitter taste of some sorghum plants and one of Africa's most reviled bird species illustrates how human genetics, crops and the environment influence one another in the process of plant domestication.