The Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev) says Nigeria spent N75bn on the importation of highly hazardous pesticides between 2020 to 2021.   Dr. L [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[Capital FM] Kisumu -- Fish cage farmers in Lake Victoria have suffered enormous losses following the mysterious death of fish stock. [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[Capital FM] Muranga -- Papaya farmers in Murang'a have been urged to practice smart agricultural practices for profitable farming so as to ensure food safety and security in the c [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[Capital FM] Kisumu -- The Government of Japan will partner with the national government to expand rice farming at the Ahero Irrigation Scheme in Kisumu County. [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[MAP] Rabat -- Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, Mohammed Sadiki, discussed, on Wednesday in Rabat, with UAE Minister of Environment and [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[Daily News] Mtwara -- CASHEW NUT Board of Tanzania (CBT) has said that it is closely monitoring global cashew nut market trend to inform and provide technical advice to its stakeh [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[AFSA] Farmers, civil society and faith leaders of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa recognise the double rebranding of the Green Revolution as an admission of failure, a [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[Leadership] Pests and diseases have caused crop loss up to 80 percent in some farms in Nigeria on an estimation of 1.5 to 200,000 hectares of land in 2022. [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[Independent (Kampala)] Dodoma, Tanzania -- Tanzanian authorities on Tuesday announced measures they were taking to end the shortage of sugar in the East African nation. [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[The Conversation Africa] Since 1990 the world's famines have been classified as small - with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991-92 and 2010-12. Now the UN's World Food Prog [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[The Conversation Africa] Kenya recently lifted a ban on the cultivation and importation of genetically modified crops amid the worst drought in 40 years and soaring food prices. T [...]

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Date: 27-Oct-2022

[Capital FM] Migori -- A total of 406 acres of tobacco farms in Migori County have been transformed alternative crops by tobacco growers. [...]

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Date: 26-Oct-2022

[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE government has said that importing sugar from outside the country will be history come 2025/2026, expressing optimism that at that time, the country expe [...]

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Date: 26-Oct-2022

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Senate on Tuesday hosted the Minister of Commerce Mawine G. Diggs to answer questions about the shortage of the country's staple food, rice and wh [...]

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Date: 26-Oct-2022

Tribune Online 200 students, 50 veterinarians to be trained on animal disease emergency response About 200 veterinary students and 50 veterinarians are expected to be trained on C [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 25-Oct-2022

Tribune Online CSDevNet sensitises Ondo farmers, forest stakeholders on climate change adaptation As part of efforts to ensure that climate change does not affect farming and for [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 25-Oct-2022

Tribune Online Ondo govt urges farmers to repay loans The Ondo State government has called on farmers across the local government areas of the state to repay the agricultural loan [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 25-Oct-2022

Tribune Online Fintech company Tingo, AFAN sign agreement to provide gadgets, inputs to 20 million farmers An Agri-Fintech Company, Tingo Mobile has entered into a Memorandum of A [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 25-Oct-2022

Tribune Online Olam Agri launches Seeds for the Future Foundation, education grant in Nigeria Olam Agri, a agribusiness company with focus on food, feed, and fibre and an operatin [...]

Country: Nigeria

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Date: 25-Oct-2022

Tribune Online How OYSADA is broadening Oyo State economy Progressive leaders, worldwide, use the state’s comparative advantage to grow their economy. It is, therefore, little w [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 25-Oct-2022

Moses Nwite, Abakaliki The Senator representing Ebonyi State North Senatorial Zone, Dr Sam Egwu has empowered over four hundred constituents by organising a three-day programme on [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 25-Oct-2022

Chinwe Onuigbo, Awka Anambra State Civil Society Network, ACSONET, a foremost citizen and Non State Actors stakeholders group, has implored Business organizations to wake up to the [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 25-Oct-2022

The Federal Government alongside the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has launche [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: N/A

Date: 25-Oct-2022

[Capital FM] Laikipia -- The national government in conjunction with Laikipia county and donors is set construct six boreholes at Laikipia's Solio Settlement Scheme in a bid to sup [...]

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Date: 25-Oct-2022

[DW] A famine is increasingly likely in East Africa as rains fail for the fourth consecutive year. Violent conflicts in the Horn of Africa are undermining efforts to help the popul [...]

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Date: 25-Oct-2022