Poultry meat: FG determines on deficit, says Minister

 

The Minister, Federal Ministry of  Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD)  Dr. Muhammed Abubakar said the Government is determined to stem up the country’s deficit of 529,000 metric tons of poultry meat using cottage processing facilities across that will set up across the states in the country.

Why we establish Radio, TV, says ARCN boss

The Executive Secretary (ES) Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN), Prof. Garba Sharabutu has said the newly commissioned agricultural radio and television stations of the agency are meant to fill the gap of insufficient airtime allocations being given on other stations to air improved technologies news on  agricultural research to farmers.

Images speak as Agric Minister commissions Dei-Dei mkt Cottage Poultry Processing Facility in Abuja.

Images speak as agric Minister commissions Dei-Dei mkt Cottage Poultry Processing Facility in Abuja.....See more images below....

Images speak @ ARCN Tv , Radio station commissioning

Images speak @ ARCN Tv , Radio station commissioning ....See more images below. 

RID NIGRIA OF INEQUITY AND STIR RAPID DEVELOPMENT: WE ARE SWIMMING AGAINST WALLS OF MOLASSES TO ATTAIN FOOD SECURITY : Opinion written by AFAN, President Arc. Kabir Ibrahim.

The last six years of the Buhari Administration has witnessed quite a number of interventions in Agriculture but there still exists a yawning gap in the food system!

 

PRESS RELEASE- AGRIC MINISTER TASK NIGERIANS TO STOP INAPPROPRIATE USE OF ANTIMICROBIALS.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr. Mohammad Mahmoud Abubakar has tasked Nigerians to stop inappropriate use of Antimicrobials and promote good practices that will limit the emergence and spread of resistant infections globally.  

Minister's visit: Seeds DG cries out for facility support

The Director General (DG) National Agricultural Seeds Council ( NASC) Dr. Philip Ojo has called on the Federal Government (FG) to provide needed facilities that will help the council to perform its improved seeds availability mandates very effectively.  

Premier new MD promises seeds availability to farmers

The new Managing Director (MD)/ CEO, Premier Seeds Nigeria Limited Mr. Ibitoye Oyewale Olumide has said the company will not relent in ensuring food security through availability of improved seeds to farmers in Nigeria and cross West African Countries.

Tephritidae and its economic importance

The Tephritidae is one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus Drosophila (in the family Drosophilidae), which is often called the "common fruit fly".

GMO: DG, Media Guru demand support for research, investigative journalism

The Director-General (DG), National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha has advocated Government’s proper funding of research for more generation of improved technologies for commercial foods productivity, just as the Managing Director, Guardian Newspaper, Mr. Martins Oloja  stressed the need for financial support to investigative journalism towards accurate facts for national development.