PRESS RELEASE- ON THE UNVEILING THE NEWLY LICENSED 158 SEED ENTREPRENEURS, BY THE DIRECTOR GENERAL NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SEEDS COUNCIL, DR. PHILLIP OLUSEGUN OJO.

The Director General of NASC on Black cap and others during a press conference

With great pleasure I welcome the members of the press once again to the National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) headquarters. I wish to state emphatically that our relationship as partners in progress has been yielding great dividends for the country, especially in spreading the news of the seed industry in a balanced way.

Images speak at the National Agricultural Seed Council new molecular diagnosis testing facility at NASC Headquarters

the Director General NASC in black cap, Dr. Philip Olusegun Ojo. and Mrs. Tolulope Mewase handling one of the portable machines

Images speak at the  National Agricultural Seed Council new molecular diagnostic testing facility at NASC Headquarters

Unwrapping the brewing secrets of barley

barley grains.

University of Adelaide researchers have uncovered fundamental new information about the malting characteristics of barley grains.

Chief Audu Ogbeh flags- off Ceremony of erosion prone, farm connected market roads and rehabilitation of degraded rangeland, cutting across 7 states in the Savannah Belt of the country.

The Honorable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh

The Honorable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh during a visit to Madobi village in Katsina State performed the flags- off Ceremony of erosion prone, farm connected market roads and rehabilitation of degraded rangeland, cutting across 7 states in the Savannah Belt of the country.

News Release- WFP distributes 7,000 fuel-efficient stoves to improve the lives of displaced women in Banki

WFP staff member Mustapha Tanko handing over a stove to Mrs Ali during the distribution of over 7000 cook stoves in Banki 

The World Food Programme (WFP), together with its partner INTERSOS, has distributed fuel-efficient stoves to 7,340 displaced families receiving WFP food assistance in the town of Banki, in Nigeria’s Borno state. The stoves distribution is an effort to improve people’s quality of life and reduce the protection risks faced by women and girls in particular, when they have to gather firewood from unsafe areas.

We can feed the world if we change our ways

Farmers

Current crop yields could provide nutritious food for the projected 2050 global population, but only if we make radical changes to our dietary choices, a new study shows.

Fertilizer destroys plant microbiome's ability to protect against disease

A growth chamber packed with tomato plants sprayed with bacteria to simulate different leaf microbiomes and then challenged with a plant pathogen to measure how well the microbiomes protect the plant from disease.

A new study of the role microbial communities play on the leaves of plants suggests that fertilizing crops may make them more susceptible to disease.

Rice with fewer stomata requires less water and is better suited for climate change

Rice

Rice plants engineered to have fewer stomata -- tiny openings used for gas exchange -- are more tolerant to drought and resilient to future climate change, a new study has revealed.

New geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently

embryo 

As an embryo develops, tissues bend into complex three-dimensional shapes that lead to organs.

Aphids manipulate their food

Aphids manipulate their food

who hasn't been bothered by these little insects at one time or another? Why do they reproduce on plants so successfully? These are among the questions that Professor Dr Caroline Müller and her research team are addressing at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Biology.