Apple fruits: Our 5 year plan will stimulate commercialization, says President

The new officially elected president for the National Apple Farmers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NAFPMAN), Mr. Clement Omoyeni Ohikhueme has promised Nigerians a proactive 5 year action for the commercialization of apple fruits in Nigeria.

Ogun targets farmers, food value system, others, says Commissioner

The Ogun state agricultural programme under the leadership of Prince Dipo Abiodun has focussed majorly on backward integration through rural farmers towards commercial productivity to create more jobs, industrialization and partnership with strategic private sector stakeholders across the globe for the purpose of achieving mechanization in the practice of agriculture.

Pix speak at the National Apple Farmers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NAFPMAN) constitution adoption and first election into executive offices.

 Pix speak at the National Apple Farmers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NAFPMAN) constitution adoption and first election into executive offices.

PRESS STATEMENT- RE: LEAKED MEMO: NIGERIA’S AGRIC MINISTRY APPROVES N30M FOR MOSQUE CONSTRUCTION

Our attention has been drawn to an online publication by the Punch Newspaper alleging that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has come under fire on social media following a leaked memo conveying the approval of N30m for the construction of a Friday mosque with taxpayers’ fund.

Osun ADP operates without office

*ARCN boss says extension cannot strive on donors

The State of Osun Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) has been operating without an office since last year after the torching and vandalization of the building by hoodlums that hid under the EndSAR youth protest to perpetuate the act in Iwo town thereby deepening the challenges of the department to food security.

AFAN should avoid politicians interference, says Prof. Olakojo

·       *President cautions insecurity on food

Professor Samuel Adelowo Olakojo, a plant breeder at the Institute of Agricultural Research & Training (IAR&T) Moorplantation, Ibadan has call on the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) to eschew politicians’ interference in its activities towards better performance for Agriculture in relation to its members’ welfare and the sector in general.

BOA, NIRSAL have failed, NAIC needs reposition, says Yam Chairman

The Chairman, Yam Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter Dr. Ajibike Lafeet has emphasised the need for farmers to establish their own bank that will replicate Rabo bank in Netherland, saying that Bank of Agriculture (BOA) and Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) have failed the farming system just as he asked for the repositioning of Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NIAC) for more effectiveness to secure farmers’ losses.

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.