Editorial - Need to evaluate Research Institutes infrastructure to ascertain level of funding

It is no more news to say agricultural research Institutes are poorly funded with only 30% of the total budget annually going into pure research while the rest seventy percent are given to administration, thereby making the core mandate of most of these institutes not very effective as they supposed to have been.

SW Review/Refils: Agric Adviser wants research for the youths against $1 trillion

*Need for climate smart agriculture through ADPs

·       *Farmers report strange fishes, weeds, wants support

·       *ARCN boss indicts NIRSAL, promises support to extension

·       *IAR&T  ED loads achievement, hails Ogun, asks others for support

The Executive Adviser (EA) to the Governor of Oyo state, Dr. Debo Akande has emphasised the need for agricultural researchers to intensify on improved technologies that would attract more youths into owning a business in Agriculture so as to be a partaker in the one trillion dollar food and agribusiness market in Africa by year 2030.

ADDRESS OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IAR, PROF. M.F. ISHIYAKU (FGSN) AT THE 2021 ANNUAL RESEARCH REVIEW AND PLANNING MEETING HELD ON 29THMARCH, 2021 AT THE MAMMAN KONTAGORA SQUARE, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA

Protocol:

1.       It is a rare privilege and honour for me to stand to address this distinguished audience and to witness another Opening Ceremony of the Annual Research Review and Planning Meeting of the almost a century old IAR. Last year, this event could not hold owing to the dreaded corona virus (COVID- 19) pandemic, which began with a partial to total lockdown of activities in the country and globally.

IAR 2021 Planning and REFILs meetings, Stakeholders demand better research funding, condemn fake fertilizers

*IAR reels out achievements

 The researchers, scientists, farmers, technocrats, extension officials and other inputs providers that converged at the annual 2021 Cropping and Research Extension Farmers Inputs Linkage System (REFILs) have unanimously advocated that Government must as a matter of urgency take funding of research for agricultural development very serious in order to achieve sustainable food system towards commercialization of Agriculture as a business. They also frowned at fertilizers’ abuse on soil, saying it can be destructive to food production.  

FUAM decorates former RMRDC Director as best 2014/15 PhD student

The Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi (FUAM) Benue state has recently honoured Dr. Usman Hassan Argungun as the best overall PhD student in the college of Agronomy, plant breeding and seed science department, with speciality in Plant Breeding and Genetics for the 2014/2015 Academic Session.

IMAGES SPEAK AS OGUN STATE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE MONITORS LAND CLEARING ACTIVITIES AT APOJOLA IN ODEDA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE. The 1000-Hectare farmland, was in collaboration with Federal Government (FG) in the ratio of 400hectares for federal and the remaining 600hectares for Ogun state towards youth empolyment in Agriculture.

 IMAGES SPEAK AS OGUN STATE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE MONITORS LAND CLEARING ACTIVITIES AT APOJOLA IN ODEDA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE.

Pix @ 2020/ 2021 IAR&T Joint Annul Research Review and 33rd South West Extension Farmers Input Linkage System (Refils), Ibadan

Pix @ 2020/ 2021 IAR&T Joint Annul Research Review and 33rd South West Extension Farmers Input Linkage System (Refils), Ibadan

I met rot in the research system – ARCN ES, Prof. Sharubutu

In this interview, the Executive Secretary (ES), Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) Prof. Garba Sharubutu spoke extensively on how he has been able to reposition the rot he met in the council and which has negatively impacted on the whole research system being the supervising Agency of all the agricultural research institutes, colleges of agriculture and federal Universities of Agriculture. He applauded the support of the Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Sabo Nanono that enabled the implementation of the approved blue print for the council’s repositioning towards research development across board.

Read his excerpts below with the Publisher of food Farm News Mr. Ayeni Oladehinde.

Farmers accuse Agric Minister of rancour, say constitution does not recognise recent Kano GAF

The Nigerian farmers have alleged the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono as the one causing  trouble in the association , saying the recently held conference at Kano was not recognised in the constitution of All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (AFAN).

Experts call for enhanced facility to avoid Genetic Resources extinction

NACGRAB  assures on gene bank

Over 200 science experts that converged across the globe at the recently organized summit and conference on Genetic Resources (GR) conservation have raised concern on the need to fortified facilities that will prevent losses of valuable animals and plants materials for the future food security at all levels in view of increasing population growth and climate change impact on the biodiversity of vegetations.