Rising Population:Experts, others endorse Bt innovations for food security

Scientists, farmers, media and civil society at a recently held science journalists hangout in Abuja have supported adoption of  biotechnology (Bt) to galvanize our agricultural commercialization for better earnings and job creations against our rising population.

FMARD PS earns a performer award

L-R, the Program Director, IIPM, Eburuche Banito, presenting Award to  Permanent Secretary's representative, Mr. Ibrahim Bello, during Award ceremony in the Ministry

The Permanent Secretary (PS), Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Dr. Ernest Umakhihe has been given a National Transformer Leadership Award for exemplary performance in the execution of President Mohammadu Buhari in the Agricultural sector.

Livestock: FG spends N360m in 2yrs vaccinations

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has said it has spent over three Hundred of Sixty Millions Naira (N360, 500.000) as intervention fund on five different vaccines distributed to all states of the federation to checkmate spread of animals’ trans-boundaries disease between 2020 and 2021 years. Food farm News authoritative gathered from the ministry.

GMO: FG cautioned against foreigners funding bio safety regulation

The Director General (DG), National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Dr. Rufus Ebegba has warned Federal Government (FG) not to allow foreign donors to champion funding of the safety regulations of the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) products, just as he hailed the Federal high court judgment delivered last week Wednesday.

Images speak @ Science hangout, Organized by Alliance For Science Nigeria, Held in Abuja

 

Images speak @ Science hangout, Organized by Alliance For Science Nigeria, Held in Abuja

Nigeria lacks animal disease coordinated surveillance, says Agric Minister

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar has described lack of animal disease control surveillance to why the country cannot timely report any disease outbreak to the global world. And this did not conform with expected global practice.

Annual animals’ vaccination is a waste of government fund

The usual highly celebrated animals’ vaccination and inseminations across some states in the country has been described as a charade and waste of government resources, an anonymous source told Foodfarmnews.

Research on food not disturb by university strikes, says IAR ED

The Executive Director (ED), Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Prof. M.F Ishyaku has allayed the fear of food security being put in a jeopardy by the ongoing university strikes, saying there is understanding with the internal union not to obstruct strategic crops research being an economic activity of the government towards food security.

FG, Farmers distance from 100k grant

The office of the presidency under the food security matters, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD),and the farmers’ apex body under Architect Ibrahim Kabir have dissociated themselves from the information being circulated on social media asking farmers and non-farmers to  register online for Federal Government (FG) grant of  one hundred and fifty thousand naira.

FG TO SUPPORT STATES IN NORTH EAST WITH FREE LIVESTOCK VACCINES

 

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar has said that Federal Government (FG) through the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services will support Gombe , and other States in the north east  with two million  Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP), Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR) and Newcastle Disease (ND) vaccines among others.