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* Minister states achievement
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The state of emergency declared on Agriculture about a year ago by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ( BAT) has received serious batching for not being able to check challenges inherited from the past administrations as promised. Although the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security ( FMAFS) Sen. Abubakar Kyari was on the contrary while reeling out the FG achievements as regards the sector.
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As effort to probe already released Genetically Modified ( GM) crops' improved varieties into Nigerian markets by the lower chamber of the National Assembly is ongoing, the Director, Agricultural Biotechnology Agency, Dr. Rose Gidado has posited high farmers' awareness of the new improved technology especially in cotton, cowpea and maize.
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The well publicized dry season farming for the year 2023-24 wheat production in the Northern states, Nigeria has reflected a declined yield in view of better improved varieties employed by the Federal Government ( FG) for the cultivations.
* Say Africa loses US$4B yearly...
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| H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat Chairperson of the AU Commission |
The recently concluded Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit in Nairobi, Kenya has declared strong support for increased sustainable soil management with more patronage to locally produced fertilizers, just as it was observed that the continent losses US$4 billion yearly on soil degradation.
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As the second leg of the African Fertilizers Summit will be rounding up today in Nairobi, Kenya, Nigeria the first host country in 2006 may have been perceived as being a failure to not meeting up with the 50kg per hectare fertilizer resolution.
The new Nigerian agricultural extension policy by the Federal Government ( FG) has set to promote small scale farming to commercial agriculture.
The recently concluded Northern states Annual Cropping/Research Extension & Farmers Inputs Linkage System ( REFILS) have expressed concerns over research inadequacy funding with a huge gap between improved technologies and the end users, just as need for more irrigated farm lands, climate smart agricultural with intensification of best agronomics practice for crops like sunflowers were among the major points of discussion at the Institute of Agricultural Research ( IAR), Samara, Zaria.
Farmers are stewards of everything from soil and the crops that pop out of it to the microbes teeming with life underneath the surface, which together creates a biodiverse environment that enriches and renews the land for generations to come.
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The new scientific exposition on the recently released transgenic maize varieties into the Nigerian seeds market has taken a new turn with speculation of being able to actually contaminate other surrounding conventional maize farms, the reason why all plant breeders, the coordinating Biotechnology Agency of the Federal Government ( FG) at the states and local government where farmings activities are actually carried out must immediately embark on massive education and enlightenment of farmers on why they should not plant conventional maize varieties too close to anywhere transgenic maize are planted.
One of the strongest seeds producing companies in Nigeria and Africa Managing Director (MD) Dr. Ibitoye Oyewole has called on the country's Apex Bank to be very considerate of inflationary effects its Monetary Policy Rate ( MPR) on commercial banks saying the negative effect will bounce back on farmers in terms of increase in improved seeds prices.
