Hybrid Maize As Panacea For Improved Seed Yield

Hybrid Maize farmer

Maize was introduced into Africa in the 1500s and has since become one of Africa’s dominant food crops. Like many other regions, it is consumed as a vegetable although it is a grain crop. The grains are rich in vitamins A, C and E, carbohydrates, and essential minerals, and contain 9 percent protein. They are also rich in dietary fibre and calories which are a good source of energy.

USAID: Quality Fertiliser Will Improve Food Security, Poverty Alleviation

farmland

The United States Aid (USAID)director, Michael Harvey, has said that quality fertiliser will improve food security and ensure poverty alleviation in Africa.

Stakeholders Call For Annulment Of Nigerian Biosafety Act

Min. Agric

Stakeholders on the aegis of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), the African Faith and Justice Network (AFJN),  Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) and the Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network (AEFJN) have called on the Nigerian government to annul the Nigerian Biosafety Management Act (2015).

‘Tomato Tuta Absoluta Can Cause 50% Yields Reduction’

Tomatoes

The former managing director of Katsina State Agriculture Development Programme (ADP), Alh Abashe Saidu, has tasked the federal government to urgently arrest the spread of the pest affecting tomato production, Tuta absoluta.

SESAME SEED

Sesame seed

Sesame seed, sesamum indicum is a flowering plant. This is seed has a wide variety of relative spread in Africa. Widely naturalized in tropical regions around the world and dating as old as man’s existence, it is the oldest known oil seed to man. Sesame seed was domesticated over 3000 years ago for consumption. It is highly tolerant to drought  and can grow where other crops fail.

AFDB, IITA, Nigeria and others partner to finance youth agricultural business

Senator. Heinekan Lokpobiri

Effort towards ensuring food security using the ingenuity of the youths garnered momentum as African Development Bank (AFDB) has concluded arrangement to inject a total of 12.5 billion dollar to supporting younger ones going into agricultural business.

Grazing Crisis: Ajimobi holds talks with Farmers, Herdsmen and Police

Senator Abiola Ajimobi

Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has outlawed night grazing and straying of cows outside a proposed ‘enclosed designated grazing areas’ across the state, just as he warned farmers against poisoning farmlands and water.ThisDay Reports.

TUTA ABSOLUTA: Tomato Farmers count losses

Tomato Farmers count losses

As the outcry against the ravaging Tuta absoluta disease of tomato continues to resonate, more farmers have lamented their losses to this menace.

Action on implementing soil/crop specific fertilizer application commences

soil/crop

Based on the approval of the memorandum on the need to adopt soil/ crop specific application viz-a-viz complimentary use of organic and inorganic fertilizer by farmers, the newly constituted National Fertilizer technical Committee has since swam into action by meeting with blenders in order to intimate them into keying into Federal Government directives of production in line of the new formulation.

Ekiti State Governor declares war on Herdsmen

Herdsmen Governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose,  has declared war on herdsmen in Ekiti State.   While addressing hunters yesterday, the number one citizen in Ekiti charged the people to take up arms.