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‘Cocoa farmers lose N55bn annually’
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
‘Why I recommended GIZ/IITA-developed cassava seedling to my co-farmers’
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
Kano govt, NIAS partner on animal feed production
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
Soil Salinisation Threatening Global Food Security – FAO
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. [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
2021 World Soil Day: NISS Identifies Factors Limiting Soil Productivity
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
NALDA To Establish Integrated Farm Estate, Vegetable Market In Gombe.
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
NALDA Kick starts Dry Season Wheat Farm In Gombe State
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
Schools Closure Starts Today to Dispatch Students to Help With Harvesting
[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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ethiopia
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
WFP Warns That Millions Could Fall Deeper Into Hunger As It Faces 'Major Funding Shortfall' in Ethiopia
[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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ethiopia
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
East Africa: The Kerry Group's Acquisition of East Africa's Afribon Set to Bring Heathy and Tasty Food to Consumers
[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 [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
Nigeria Losing High Volume of Annual Farm Produce to Pests - Agric Minister
[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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 07-Dec-2021
Inuwa flags off 2021 dry season wheat production
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
How Training Is Helping Women Farmers Grow #AfricaClimateCrisis
[WFP] A rural women's initiative, backed by the World Food Programme and its partners, is empowering smallholder farmers [...]
AgricultureCountry: Rwanda
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Loans Keep Women Afloat As They Plant Fast-Vanishing Mangroves in Kenya #AfricaClimateCrisis
[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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Maize Farmers should be Incentivised to Produce More – Agbugba
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Nigeria, Others to Witness Fall in Crop Production by 2022 – FAO
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Global Food Prices Hit All-Time High in November 2021- FAO
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 [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageRegion: General
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Curb Harmful Fisheries Subsidies, Okonjo-Iweala Urges WTO Members
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Ghana has good prospects for common bean production – Crop research scientists
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Africa: Excess Salt in Soils Puts Food Security At Risk - FAO
[UN News] Improper water management, including insufficient supply and poor quality drainage systems, are contributing to excessive soil salinization - a problem that threatens glo [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Farmers Cry Out As Katsina Government Blocks Dam
[Premium Times] About 300 farmers use wastewater from the Ajiwa Dam in Katsina for irrigation. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 06-Dec-2021
Igbinedion Varsity Secures 500m CBN Facility to Resuscitate Oil Palm Plantation
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Dec-2021
CBN’s TIE Scheme Can Boost Food Production —Stakeholders
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 [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Dec-2021
FCTA sets agenda for farmers
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Dec-2021
ADB promises farmers easy access to financing in 2022
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 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 02-Dec-2021