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Nigeria needs more investment in rural infrastructure to boost agriculture – Adesina

The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says Nigeria needs more investment in rural infrastructure to boost agricultural production in the...
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NBMA canvasses essential training for biotech regulators

Director General of National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has said that regulators of modern biotechnology need to be necessarily trained so...
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Nigeria deserves unbiased biosafety regulatory system – Bassey-Orovwuje

It has become the norm for the Nigerian biosafety chief, Dr Rufus Egbeda, to rise to the defense of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). This...
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Ondo, firms sign MoUs on agric projects

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Monday, October 23, 2017 in Akure, the state capital, signed Memoranda of Understanding with two firms on...
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Nigeria cultivates only 40% of its arable land, says senator

Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, says that only 40 per cent of Nigeria’s arable land is under cultivation. Adamu,...
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Group urges EU to ban Monsanto’s glyphosate

The Rainforest Rescue has taken up a campaign to urge the European Union (EU) to ban glyphosate, the active ingredient in herbicides such as...
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AfDB strategy to guarantee tons of additional food production

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has developed a new initiative called the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) initiative – a knowledge and innovation-based...
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Government urged to pay more attention to agriculture

Soil scientist, Prof. Ayodele Odofin of the Federal University of Technology in Minna, Niger State, has called for more attention on agriculture to increase...
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