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African leaders pledge new strategy to fight hunger, boost farming

African heads of state gathered in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday, January 12, 2025, to adopt new agricultural policies aimed at transforming the continent's food...

Michael Simire - January 12, 2025

Agric & Biotech

Stop demonising GMO products, expert cautions anti-GMO activists

TELA/BMSS Project Manager at the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Sylvester Oikeh, has cautioned anti-GMO activists against demonising Genetically Modified Organism (GMO), saying...

Michael Simire - January 10, 2025

Agric & Biotech

Chinese researchers develop green, effective pesticide formulation

Chinese scientists have developed a new eco-friendly pesticide formulationthat enhances pest control and safe for crops and the environment. The study, recently published in the...

Michael Simire - January 9, 2025

Agric & Biotech

Environmentalist proffers ways to reduce climate change effects on food security

An environmental advocacy expert, Mrs Temitope Okunnu, has highlighted ways of mitigating the climate-change effects on Nigeria’s attainment of food security. Okunnu, the founder of...

Michael Simire - January 9, 2025

Agric & Biotech

No genetically modified seeds contain ‘epicyte’ or sterilisation gene – Expert

President, Biotechnology Society of Nigeria (BSN), Prof. Sylvia Uzochukwu, has described as sensational the claim that Genetically Modified (GM) seeds contain “epicyte” or sterilisation...

Michael Simire - January 8, 2025

Agric & Biotech

Biochemist urges farmers to desist from planting with toxic chemicals

The Biochemistry Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BPAoN) has urged farmers to desist from the use of corrosive chemicals as fertiliser to hasten germination of...

Michael Simire - January 7, 2025

Agric & Biotech

Tomato farmers seek govt’s intervention to reduce post-harvest losses

The National Tomato Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NATPAN) is seeking the intervention of the Federal Government to reduce post-harvest losses of...

Michael Simire - January 7, 2025

Agric & Biotech

Chinese scientists unlock key advances in sugarcane genomics

A Chinese research team from Guangxi University has successfully decoded the genome of the modern cultivated sugarcane variety Xintaitang No. 22 (XTT22). It sheds light...

Michael Simire - January 7, 2025

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