Agric & Biotech

Agric & Biotech

Biosafety agency says insufficient awareness leads to misguided information

The Director-General, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr Rufus Ebegba, says inadequate public awareness on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) leads to misguided information. Ebegba said this during...
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Food security in the Sahel: TAAT launches out in Mali

As part of the plan to ensure food security in the Sahel, Sorghum and Millet Compact of Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is set to...
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Agric council to go digital on seeds certification

The National Agriculture Seed Council (NASC) says it will soon go digital with the certification of seeds to ensure that farmers get quality seeds to enhance...
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Food security: Concern over increasing soil acidity in Kenya

Increasing soil acidity is complicating Kenya’s goal of achieving food security by lowering farmer’s yields, a government official on Friday, April 12, 2019 said. Hamadi Boga, Principal...
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Why Nigeria should design own plant variety protection laws

The Federal Government has been urged not to sign the Union for the Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV 1991) but instead should design its own...
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TAAT highlights transformation as farmers’ forum begins in Togo

With more than 3.4 million hectares of land available, the Togolese government is worried that only 45% is being used presently. The government is equally concerned...
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Typha grass invades 1,000 hectares of irrigation field in Jigawa

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Jigawa on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 said typha grass had invaded over 1,000 hectares of farmland in Guri...
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Despite cyclone Idai, Malawi maize output up 24%

Malawi’s maize output increased by just over 24 per cent in the 2018/19 farming year so far, boosted by favourable weather conditions and government subsidies, the...
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