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

  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 [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 17-Dec-2021

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 [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 17-Dec-2021

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 [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 17-Dec-2021

[Premium Times] Nigeria's performance in 2019, the study year, was still worse than two years earlier. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 17-Dec-2021

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 [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 16-Dec-2021

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 [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 16-Dec-2021

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- [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

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 [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: General

Date: 15-Dec-2021

Farmers, investors and various governments have been urged to encourage and deepen coconut production and value chain to make the country richer by not less than N20 billion yearly [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

[The Herald] Farmers have been assured by the Veterinary Department that it has adequate dipping chemicals in stock but urged cautious use to reduce livestock mortality due to tick [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

[Daily News] THE Tanzania Coffee Research Institute (TACRI) Deputy National Chairman, Mr Andrew Kakama has appealed for government intervention to enable coffee farmers in the coun [...]

Country: Tanzania

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

[IPS] Bulawayo -- Food spoilage forced smallholder farmers out of pocket and out of business - until an entrepreneur came up with a cool idea. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 15-Dec-2021

More than one hundred thousand cocoa seedlings has been released to revamp the moribund cocoa estates in the southern district of Cross River State, south-south Nigeria. The Speci [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune Online‘Farmers radio will bridge knowledge gap’ THE management of Bellefu Digital Agro Connect, owners of Bellefu.com, has said the establishment of the Bellefu onli [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune Online‘Why I’m glad I became a cassava seed entrepreneur’ SIGNS that more cassava farmers in Oyo State will adopt improved varieties in the new planting season hav [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineNigeria yet to explore industrial potential of yam —Prof Otegbayo PROFESSOR of Food Science and Technology from Bowen University, Osun  State, Iwo,  Mrs  Bol [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineInside FAO-funded NLTP that keeps herders, farmers in same place The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) alongside the Nigerian Government is im [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

The cashew sector is increasingly becoming one of the most important agricultural sectors in Ghana. The sector has grown into one that contributes significantly to economic growth, [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

  The Trade Office of the High Commission of Malaysia in Nigeria, the Nigeria-Malaysia Business Council and the Plantation Owners Forum of Nigeria (POFON), among other industry s [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Nigerian Government commenced the implementation of pilot National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP), an initi [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

The Nigerian Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has promised to do more for the youths in modern and sustainable agricultural practices. The FCT Secretary, Agricultur [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

[Ethiopian Herald] Urban farming is becoming both a fashion and an additional investment for urban dwellers in addition to their normal business in Ethiopia. Urban agriculture is i [...]

Country: Ethiopia

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

[FAO] How communities are bringing fish back to one of Malawi's lakes [...]

Country: Malawi

Region: Africa

Date: 14-Dec-2021

Tribune OnlineLagos generates over N1bn from agriculture in 2021 ― Commissioner Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture said it generated over N1billion as Internally Generated Re [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 13-Dec-2021