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Thursday 31 December 2015
The 2016 budget
Rice and the Economy
rice |
Saturday 26 December 2015
We link up women to a better agricultural skill says Chairperson NNEW
NECA’s Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW) |
The chairperson, NECA’s Network of
Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW), Mrs. Ekaette Umoh has assured female farmers who
are interested in taking agriculture as a business more skill acquisition
through linking them up with appropriate institution for more technical knowledge
of standard practicing of farming towards making profit and good living.
IITA Cassava Weed Management Project signs MoU with SON
The Cassava Weed Management Project |
The Cassava Weed Management Project, which is being managed
by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), has signed a Memorandum
of Understanding with the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON), an agency of
the Federal Government of Nigeria that ensures manufactured products entering
Nigerian market give the required degree of satisfaction to consumers through
compliance with government policies on standardization and conformity
assessment.
Nigeria enlists in Integration project by Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research
In a bit to ensure proactive food security, the
Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has listed
Nigeria to join other countries of the world towards ensuring an integrated
project site for proper alignment and harmonization of National and International
activities going in the country as related to farming.
ORF, PPR (Paste Dit Petid Ruminantivin), KATA- a serious disease affecting livestock and man
scabby lesions on the lips and nostrils of affected goat |
ORF, PPR ( Paste Dit Petid Ruminantivin), KATA are all names to identify this highly contagious viral disease that causes painful scabby lesions on the lips and nostrils of affected sheep’s and goats during 9days incubation period. It is a significant welfare problem for both sheep and goats not just in Nigeria but worldwide and is regarded as being in the top 20 most important viral diseases affecting the rural poor in developing countries.ORF is a zoonotic infection (which can spread from animals to humans) so it also poses a significant health risk to humans who come in contact with infected animals.
CEO, King Aliba Farms explains why is planting exotic crops
The Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) King Aliba Farms has thrown more light on the economic
importance of exotic fruits and vegetable to health and food security saying is
very popular among the rural people in the country. Read his excerpt with us
the convention of the organic stakeholders at Abuja.
Can you introduce yourself sir?
I am Taoheed Bala Usman, the Chief Executive, King Aliba
Farms, a farmer and government worker.
Ethnol : Ekiti state partners NCGA for production- *agric commissioner cautions Fulani herdsmen *
1.
Ekiti State Agric Commissioner, Hon. Peter
Kehinde Odebunmi with PS Engr. E.O Abegunde
|
The
Ekiti state government under the directive of Mr. Ayodele Peter Fayose has
approved 100 hectares of land to Nigeria Cassava Grower Association of Nigeria
(NCGA) for the plantation of cassava tubers towards the production of ethanol
just as the agric commissioner of the state also emphasized the need to curb
the nefarious activities of herdsmen who are intentionally destroying farms in
the state.
IITA wins Outstanding Research Award, dedicates to farmers
Director General, IITA, Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, |
The
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture has received the Outstanding
Research Institute award from the Nigeria-based Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL). IITA
was honored for its sterling leadership in agricultural research in Nigeria in
particular, and sub Saharan Africa in general.
Community Based Seed Production- practicable strategy for Nigeria seed system development Emmanuel Sangodele N2Africa-Nigeria
CURRENT SEED SYSTEM SCENARIO
•No
sustainable supply of improved and appropriate varieties to different category
of farmers in the community
•Government
interference in the seed business
•Lack
of synergy of different seed system development scheme
•Lack
of continuity of various initiatives and intervention
•Lack
of enough human resources to handle mammoth load of certification and seed
quality control
•Low
rate of adoption of improved varieties
•Lack of effective seed production plan
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