AI and Agriculture challenges

Artificial Intelligence (AI), a problem solving technology that has a potential to revolutionize the Agricultural industry by providing solutions to various challenges facing farmers. 

FG makes NCAM acting ED substantive

 

The Federal Government (FG) through the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development  has appointed Engr. (Dr) Kamal Abdulgafar Rasheed as the new substantive Executive Director (ED)/ Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM),  Ilorin, Kwara state. 

REFILS verdict blames SW Governments on non agric performance

* Condemns cashew wastages 

The recently held 34th Annual South West, Zonal Research Extension Farmers Inputs Linkage System (REFILS) has apportioned the non development of Agriculture in the region to Government deliberate non release of approved budgets for extension activities towards increased food production using the best practices.

IAR&T hosts a low key agricultural REFILS

The Institute of Agricultural Research And Training (IAR&T) tomorrow 3rd, April 2023 will be hosting researchers and extension officers from the Western states of Nigeria to research review and performance through technologies off take on farming activities in the region in a very low key way.

Anchor program:How CBN officials use inputs, mapping, mechanization to rip off farmers

The popular Anchor Borrower Program (ABP) of the Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN) has been ridden with fraud through inputs procurement on behalf of farmers, land mapping and clearing that was tagged mechanization.

How CBN naira swap, election halt agricultural activities

The ongoing naira swap of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the just concluded presidential and governorship elections in the country have been said to be responsible for the slow pace of agricultural projects meant to have been executed at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ( FMARD) for food security in the country.

EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission Revises Guidance for Healthy, Diverse Diets, and Sustainable Food Systems

The EAT-Lancet Commission 2.0 is launching a new report to update the global community on their healthy diets and sustainable food systems goals.

The first EAT-Lancet Commission report was published in 2019. The EAT-Lancet 2.0 report will launch in 2024 and focus on diverse dietary guidelines, local diets, and food justice. In addition, the report will include 12-month long global consultations for the public and other interested global food systems stakeholders to share their thoughts on a transition to sustainable food systems, and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) modeling efforts to evaluate multiple pathways to sustainable food systems.

Produce rejection: FG to install tracibility machine as checkmate measure

 

The Federal Government (FG) through its Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI) will soon install a machine to ensure standard tracibility code to prospective buyers abroad.

IPCC Synthesis Report: A Final Alarm For Climate, A Final Alarm For Food Systems

The highest authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has released AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023, a summary of five years of reports which sounds the alarm once more about the enormous impact that global food systems have on climate change.

FG tasks AGOA committee $50 million export opportunity to US

The Federal Government (FG) through its trade and investment ministry has constituted a technical committee to chart out an actionable plan towards achieving $50 million export opportunity in the United States ( US) market with substantial agricultural produce through African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA).