Regenerative Agriculture Needs A Standardized Definition, Says New Report

A new report says that an inconsistent understanding of what regenerative agriculture entails and what it can achieve means an outcome-based framework for measuring and assessing regenerative agricultural practices is needed.

Feeding a growing global population - new ways tech is changing the agricultural landscape

There is no doubt that the human population is growing at a huge rate. According to the United Nations, the global human population reached 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950, adding 1 billion people since 2010 and 2 billion since 1998.

Intensive Agriculture Blamed for Bird Population Decline in Spain

The latest Atlas of Breeding Birds in Spain shows a population decline of about 27 percent in birds linked to agricultural environments.

Land degradation: GSF move to rejuvenate 200,000 hectares of land

Amidst degradation of land due  to the effects of  climate change across the globe, the Green Sahara farms has moved to rejuvenate about 200,000 hectares of land in the North Central and Sahel region to ensure a green economy wherein human beings co exist with nature in a sustainable manner is put in place.

2022 Flood: NAERLS reports N700 billion damages on food security

The National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS) has submitted an official report which reveals about Seven Hundred billion naira (N700B) as being lost to 2022 flood incidences in food system of agriculture alone. 

Images speak as NAERLS presents 2022 Flood reports in Abuja

 

Images speak as NAERLS presents 2022 Flood reports in Abuja

2023 planting: IAR boss recommends May, June to farmers

The Executive Director (ED), Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR)Prof. Mohammed Ishiaku has recommended later parts of May, and early June as suitable periods for the planting of cereal and legume crops respectively in the Savanna area of Nigeria.

Varietal chairman commends Premier, NIHORT for tomato varieties, one other release

Premier Seed Nigeria Limited, a first famous indigenous seed company has recently received a pat on the back along with National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) for being able to bring for documentation and release of two different tomato varieties after a very long while in the history of crops varietal release in the country, just as one yellow hybrid maize fortified with pro-vitamin A was also approved for registration and release for the company.

Lake Chad releases 3 millet varieties, promises more to farmers, says ED

The Executive Director (ED) Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI), Prof. Baba Gana Kabir has promised to continually ensure that farmers across all the ecologies of the country have access to all the newly released millet varieties of the Institute to achieve availability of well-fortified nutritious food in commercial quantities to checkmate import bill and create good health and wealth for Nigerian people.

Interior Minister calls for weather gardens in schools

The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has in the 2023 Seasonal Climate Predictions (SCP) called on the Government to  revive schools' weather garden across the country to create awareness of climate change negative effects on farmlands, properties and human lives.