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New Alcohol Made With Seychelles' Coco De Mer to Hit Market This Year
[Seychelles News Agency] A new alcohol made from the pulp of Seychelles' exotic coco de mer -- the world's biggest nut -- is expected to hit the market this year. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Seychelles
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Jan-2022
Stakeholders harp on strengthening CBN’s agro-industrial interventions
Tribune OnlineStakeholders harp on strengthening CBN’s agro-industrial interventions STAKEHOLDERS in the Agro-industrial sector of the Nigerian economy have drummed up support [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
FCA empowers youths, women, retirees with arable crop, livestock production techniques
Tribune OnlineFCA empowers youths, women, retirees with arable crop, livestock production techniques FEDERAL College of Agriculture, Ibadan, in conjunction with Emraj Global Ser [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
NACGRAB takes campaign on resilient seeds to Kishi
Tribune OnlineNACGRAB takes campaign on resilient seeds to Kishi AS part of measures geared towards improving the use and management of seed collection through multi-stakeholder [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
Food security: Nigerians urged to embrace urban farming, others
Tribune OnlineFood security: Nigerians urged to embrace urban farming, others IN order to ensure food sufficiency in the country, Nigerians have been called upon to embrace back [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
FG boosts Ekiti youths capacity with tutelage on agric practice
Tribune OnlineFG boosts Ekiti youths capacity with tutelage on agric practice NIGERIA is a nation with a large youth population who are mostly unemployed. This has led to many c [...]
Education/Training AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
Why eating chicken, fish treated with antibiotics is dangerous
Tribune OnlineWhy eating chicken, fish treated with antibiotics is dangerous IT is no more news that the use of antimicrobials to treat animals also exposes the consumers of the [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
Nigeria gets new seed production company
To boost food production through the deployment of new technologies, the African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Alliance for Gr [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
Anglogold Ashanti Obuasi Mine promotes trade show to diversify commerce in municipality
Anglogold Ashanti, Obuasi Mine has launched a five-day trade and exhibition show in Obuasi. The show is to diversify the economy of Obuasi through trade promotion. T [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
25,000 Smallholder Farmers to Benefit From U.S.$8.84 Million Building Climate Resilience Project
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- As part of efforts to enhance the agriculture sector and promote climate change in the country, the government of Liberia has received an adaptation g [...]
AgricultureCountry: Liberia
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
President of DRC Senate, Lukwebo Commissions Beef Exporting Facility in Uganda
[Nile Post] Modeste Bahati Lukwebo, the President of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of Congo has paid an official visit to the Nshaara Industrial Park where he commissioned [...]
AgricultureCountry: Uganda
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
AAAID Undertakes to Help Tunisia Make Most of Funding Programme for Small-Scale Farmers
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development (AAAID) will endeavour to help Tunisia make the most of the funding programme [...]
AgricultureCountry: Tunisia
Region: Africa
Date: 21-Dec-2021
World Bank approves $700m credit for Nigeria’s agro-climate project
The World Bank has approved a $700 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Nigeria Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) Pr [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
Cows To Start Producing 10 Litres Daily By 2026 ― NABDA DG
THE Director General of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Professor Abdullahi Mustapha has said that there is ongoing genetic research to enable the Nigerian b [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
Nigeria Yet To Explore Industrial Potential Of Yam —Prof Otegbayo
Professor of Food Science and Technology from Bowen University, Osun State, Iwo, Mrs Bolanle Otegbola, has declared that Nigeria is yet to maximise, or explore the industrial poten [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
FCTA assures residents of food security
The Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat in the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Abubakar Ibrahim has restated the commitment of the Administr [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
Climate Change Act will protect the environment – Speaker
The Speaker Nigerian House of Representatives has described the Climate Change Act recently passed and assented to by the President would help to protect the environment for conduc [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
FAO Trains 30 frontline veterinarians on Disease Surveillance/Investigation/Reporting
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations through the Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), has trained and graduated 30 frontline Veter [...]
Education/Training AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
Rice farmers need mechanisation services to help ensure self-sufficiency in production – Kufuor Foundation
The John A. Kufuor Foundation is calling on government and the private sector to expand investment in mechanisation services for farmers if the country can become self–sufficient [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
Tomato farmers and transporters take steps to promote local production
The Ghana Tomato Traders and Transporters Association is entreating its members to source their products from local tomato farms. The Association wants to discourage the imp [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
Nigeria's Ratio of Agric Extension Workers to Farmers Lowest in Africa - Report
[Premium Times] Nigeria's performance in 2019, the study year, was still worse than two years earlier. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Dec-2021
AfDB Offers Nigeria $210m Loan For agro-industrial zones
The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) board has offered Nigeria a $210 million facility to co-finance Phase 1 of the Nigeria Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone Program (SPAI [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Dec-2021
FAO Partners Nigeria to Fight Aflatoxins Hindering Food Production
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has disclosed plans to team up with the Nigerian government to fight aflatoxins, which impedes food production, preser [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Dec-2021
French Govt Invests In Upskill Women Agripreneurs in Nigeria
To ensure the production of quality agricultural produce in Nigeria, the French government has invested €200,000 to train rural women on best practices to lead the agri-food sub- [...]
Education/Training AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Dec-2021
Lagos Earns Over N1bn IGR Through Agriculture
For the first time in history, the Lagos State Government has earned over N1billion as Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) through agriculture. The development was disclosed by the [...]
Agriculture FinancialCountry: Nigeria
Region: General
Date: 15-Dec-2021