Model to boost cassava output launched
An environmentally-friendly farming model, Save and Grow, promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has been identified to have the capability to increase cassava yields by up to 400 p...
Category Archives: Agriculture
Nigeria to export fresh produce
“Nigerians must key into the great potentials in Global market and bring into reality the government efforts to export fresh produce.” The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina ac...
Crude palm oil importation: When local producers cried out
Coalition of oil palm stakeholder’s organisations recently protested large importation of crude palm oil into the country, JOHN OBA, in this write up, examines the impact of this development In an ef...
Nigeria will meet 68% wheat need by 2015 – Adesina
The minister of agriculture and rural development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has said that Nigeria would meet 68 percent of the country’s wheat need come 2015. He made this known during the inaugural meet...
Invest in agric, ICA tells Nigerian cooperatives
The regional director of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), Dr. Chiyoge Sifa, has called on cooperative organisations in Nigeria to take advantage of the growing opportunities in the Agric...
Palm oil importation: Farmers call for revocation of waivers to CPO
Coalition of Oil Palm Stakeholders Organisation of Nigeria (COPSON) has called on the federal government to as a matter of necessity revoke all existing waivers on palm importations and stop granting...
FG flags off second phase of GES in South West
As part of efforts to ensure that farmers across the country have undisrupted access to farm inputs, the minister of agriculture and rural development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has flagged-off the 2013 G...
Insects, forest products critical to fight hunger – FAO
Ordinarily, insects are known to be of very little importance when it comes to the human food chain. But, a Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) report has shown that the contrary is becoming the...
Appraising the agricultural action-plan
At the inception of his administration, President Goodluck Jonathan introduced the agricultural action plan, otherwise referred as the Agricultural Transformation Agenda. One of the programmes in the...
Agriculture in Africa improving – FAO
A senior official of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Modibo Traore, has said that African agriculture has achieved significant progress over the last decade and reduced the alarming p...