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		<title>Appraising the agricultural action-plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Azubuike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 agenda is the creation of 3.5 million jobs and the achievement of a great leap-forward in commodities such as rice, cassava, sorghum, cocoa and cotton value chains, etc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agriculture in Africa improving – FAO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Azubuike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 pace of increases in rural poverty, thanks to the implementation of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP). &#8220;Despite the encouraging results, the average productivity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Member states to address challenges on Niger Basin’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Azubuike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Reng Ochekpe, has said that member states are working to address challenges and jointly develop the resources of the Niger Basin, thereby reversing the current situation. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the extra ordinary session of council of ministers preceding the summit of heads of states and government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agric research institutes, charged on research mgt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 04:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Azubuike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Executive Directors of the Agricultural Research Institutes and Provosts of Colleges of Agriculture in the country have been called upon to embrace a more comprehensive research management approach to enable them achieve the necessary organisational change for enhanced client-orientation. Disclosing this in a welcome address delivered at the opening session of a five day training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40% of Nigerians lack access to water – Minister</title>
		<link>http://blueprintng.com/2013/05/40-of-nigerians-lack-access-to-water-minister-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 03:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Azubuike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe, has said that available data shown and as noted in the Presidential Water Summit that about 40 per cent of the population do not presently have access to potable water. Ochekpe who revealed this in Abuja at a follow-up meeting on Presidential Water Summit with the state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FG expresses worry on dwindling fortunes of Lake Chad</title>
		<link>http://blueprintng.com/2013/05/fg-expresses-worry-on-dwindling-fortunes-of-lake-chad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Azubuike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The federal government has expressed its worry over the dwindling fortunes of Lake Chad, as its water has continued to recede over the years. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resources, Baba Faruk, who stated this at the 58th session of council of ministers of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) in Abuja, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gate Foundation boosts ATA with vehicles, computers</title>
		<link>http://blueprintng.com/2013/05/bill-gate-foundation-boosts-ata-with-vehicles-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Azubuike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ade Lekoetje]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agricultural Transformation Agenda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation recently donated two Hilux vans, computer sets and their accessories to the federal ministry of agriculture and rural development in support of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda [ATA] of the present administration. Speaking on the occasion, the UNDP Country Director, Ade Lekoetje, who made the donation on behalf of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zamfara explores agric potentials for devt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umaru Maradun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several decades, the geographical area now known as Zamfara state was identified to be blessed with arable land. Carved out of the present Sokoto state in 1996 by the late Gen. Sani Abacha, Zamfara state had played a prominent role in agricultural activities. As the inhabitants of the of the state are predominantly farmers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAO initiates project to reduce rural poverty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grace Azubuike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture Organisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) with other partners, have initiated a $1 million pilot project aimed at reducing rural poverty and strengthening livelihoods using cassava value-chain in selected areas in the Northern regions. It also aims at enhancing synergies, partnership and complementarities as well as identification of lessons learned and best practices in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boosting cocoa production via genetic engineering</title>
		<link>http://blueprintng.com/2013/04/boosting-cocoa-production-via-genetic-engineering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AGRIC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good news for cocoa farmers!! Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN) is working toward the production of a new variety of cocoa which can mature in just nine months with higher yields. According to Dr Anna Muyiwa, the Head of the Department Crop Improvement of at CRIN, if the variety, now under observation, passes all [...]]]></description>
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