Tribune Online‘Cocoa farmers lose N55bn annually’ THE National President of Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN) Comrade Adeola Adegoke has said that Nigerian Cocoa F [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune Online‘Why I recommended GIZ/IITA-developed cassava seedling to my co-farmers’ A woman farmer, Mrs Dorcas Alamu, has said that the reason she recommended the GIZ/IIT [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineKano govt, NIAS partner on animal feed production THE Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project (KSADP) has signed an agreement with the Nigerian Institute of A [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has decried the increasing levels of soil salinisation and degradation, saying are a threat to global food security. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS) has said soil acidity, low-average soil nutrient, indiscriminate bush burning, floods and soil erosion were the major factors limiting the [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Ene Okwanihe, Abuja The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA)has disclosed plans to establish its Integrated Farm Estate for youth empowerment and a Vegetable M [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

NALDA Kick starts Dry Season Wheat Farm In Gombe State Ene Okwanihe, Abuja In line with ongoing efforts to continuously reduce the rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria through m [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ministry of Education last week announced its decision to close all secondary schools so students can harvest crops for those on the frontline o [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The United Nations World Food Programme said in a statement that its ability to meet the critical food and nutrition needs of millions of people in [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[New Dawn] NAIROBI, Kenya, 6 December 2021- /African Media Agency (AMA) /- The Kerry Group has expanded its footprint in Africa following its acquisition of Rwanda-based Afribon. T [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

[Vanguard] The Minister of Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, has said that Nigeria is losing high volume of its annual farm produce to da [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 07-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineInuwa flags off 2021 dry season wheat production Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has said that his administration will continue to partner with the Fe [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

[WFP] A rural women's initiative, backed by the World Food Programme and its partners, is empowering smallholder farmers [...]

Country: Rwanda

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Pate Island -- Coastal communities rely on mangroves to provide habitats for fish and protect their homes from flooding - and giving financial incentiv [...]

Country: Kenya

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

A senior academic at the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Rivers State University and the University of the State of the African Diaspora (USOAD), Dr Ikechi Agbugb [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has predicted that Nigeria and other low-income and food-deficit countries would experience a decline in crop production [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has disclosed that the World food prices rose for the fourth consecutive month in November. The FAO disclosed this in [...]

Region: General

Date: 06-Dec-2021

Following the decision by members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to postpone the 12th Ministerial Conference, scheduled to hold in Geneva, Scotland, the Director-General Ngo [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

Ongoing studies to determine the suitability of cultivating common beans in Ghana are yielding positive results, according to crop research scientists. The scientists say th [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

[UN News] Improper water management, including insufficient supply and poor quality drainage systems, are contributing to excessive soil salinization - a problem that threatens glo [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

[Premium Times] About 300 farmers use wastewater from the Ajiwa Dam in Katsina for irrigation. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Dec-2021

The Igbinedion University, Okada, has secured N500 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to revitalise its existing oil palm plantation. The university’s Vice-Chancello [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Dec-2021

STAKEHOLDERS in the Nigerian agriculture industry have posited that the Tertiary Institutions Entrepreneurship Scheme (TIES), an initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) aim [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Dec-2021

The new Mandate Secretary, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mallam Abubakar Ibrahim has set an agenda for farmers b [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Dec-2021

The Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) has promised farmers easy access to financing of Agri-business for improved agricultural production in the country come next year. Th [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 02-Dec-2021