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Firm urges local farmers to cultivate Vitamin-A fortified maize

An agricultural firm, Value Seeds Ltd., has urged local farmers to cultivate Vitamin A fortified seeds to boost nutritious diet and food security in...
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Woodlots establishment: Cross River commends communities for donating lands

An official of the Cross River State Government, Dr Edu Effiom, on Tuesday, November 13, 2018 commended communities that voluntarily donated lands for the...
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Nigeria adopts climate-smart agriculture to boost food security

The Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation is set to promote climate-smart agriculture as a strategy to boost food security in the country. Mr Amara Nwankpa, Director, Public...
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Nigeria’s agric sector challenged by animal diseases — FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has identified Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) and Zoonosis as one of the major challenges constraining the country’s agricultural...
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Group claims release of GM mosquitoes in Burkina Faso risky, unethical

Genetically modified (GM) “male-sterile” mosquitoes are due to be released in the very near future, in Burkina Faso by the Target Malaria research consortium,...
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Senators laud biosafety agency’s GM lab

The Senate Committee on Environment has lauded the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) over its modern state-of-the-art Genetic Modification (GM) Detection and Analysis Laboratory. The...
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FAO report says 75m slaughtered cows waste yearly

No fewer than 75 million cows slaughtered for consumption end up wasting every year, a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)...
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British anthropologist advises against ranching in Nigeria

Ranching cannot end challenges of pastoral migration in Nigeria because it was not successful in the past, an anthropologist, Mr. Roger Blench, has said. Blench,...
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