AS the country ushers into New Year 2021 more than 100,600 small scale farmers in the country will be receiving grain and vegetable seeds’ grants worth US$ 493,500 to assist them in sustainable food production. Through its new...
Read MoreIn 1927 Henry Williamson published Tarka the Otter, the story of an otter living in the Torridge River in Devon, U.K. Recognized today as a classic of organic farming, it has seldom been out of print. Though Williamson described...
Read More“Mealworms are very versatile insects. They have a nutty taste,” says Tiziana Di Costanzo, co-founder of Horizon, a small-scale edible insect farm in London. Di Costanzo and her family started farming mealworms in their...
Read MoreUS farmers make their living raising crops from the soil each year. Now, some are getting paid for putting something back into their fields: carbon. In an article published by the Wall Street Journal, correspondent Jacob...
Read MoreThe Oil palm sector used to be the mainstay of the economy of the then Eastern Region which has now been split into nine states. The sector attained by the old Eastern Region government under Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe and Dr Michael...
Read MoreResearchers at Tokyo University of Science devise a new electrochemical technology to manufacture ammonia-based fertilizer from urea. From the perspective of future societies, in extremely closed environments such as a space...
Read MoreIt was beginning to look like a good year for American agriculture, and then a global pandemic swept across the country, sending the industry into a tailspin. By mid-April, the temporary closure of the Smithfield Foods hog...
Read MoreCHICAGO, Dec 30 (Reuters) – U.S. live cattle futures declined on Wednesday for a second session as surging corn prices signaled rising feed costs and pressured feeder cattle futures, traders said. Chicago Mercantile...
Read MoreThe Maize Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN) has finalized and disclosed plans to distribute N2 billion inputs for dry season farming, under the CBN/MAGPAN/Anchor’s Borrowers Scheme. This is...
Read MorePresident Muhammadu Buhari yesterday asked the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to distribute tractors being refurbished at the agency’s institute in Minna, Niger State to farmers. Buhari...
Read MorePresident Muhammadu Buhari yesterday committed his administration to checking the soaring prices of foodstuffs, which have become a major driver of inflation in the country. The president, at a virtual meeting of the...
Read MoreFormer President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has disclosed that Nigeria was still far behind in meeting the set standards of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in fish consumption. The former President made this disclosure...
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