Agric & Biotech

Agric & Biotech

Food security: Assembly pledges collaboration with CSOs, women farmers in Kwara

The Kwara State House of Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Food Security has pledged collaboration with agriculture related civil society organisations (CSOs) and women...
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Agric & Biotech

Optimally harnessing export as Nigeria rethinks cocoa

In the pre-independence Nigeria, agriculture, especially cocoa farming, was one of the mainstays of the nation’s economy. The top five cocoa producing states in Nigeria...
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Agric & Biotech

Cocoa price surge: South-West youths acquire land in villages for farming

Many youths in Southwestern states, particularly in Osun, Ondo and Ekiti, are returning to their villages to acquire land for cocoa farming due to...
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Agric & Biotech

England adopts implementing rules for gene edited crops

 Two years after the primary legislation was passed in March 2023, England’s implementing rules for the cultivation of gene edited crops were signed into...
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Agric & Biotech

BATN Foundation empowers 18 young agripreneurs with N28.5m cash grant, mentorship across three varsities

In what appears to be a bold move to bolster youth-led innovation in Nigeria’s agricultural sector, the British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) Foundation has...
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Agric & Biotech

Daouda Ngom: Africa’s pastoralists hold key to sustainable livestock, environmental balance

Across Africa, pastoralists and livestock keepers sustain herding systems which are closely bound up with our landscapes and crucial to nationwide food security, economic...
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Agric & Biotech

Ondo, Ekiti, Osun farmers lament dearth of unskilled labour, cost of inputs

Farmers in Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states have expressed concern over the dearth of unskilled labour and high prices of farm inputs as preparation...
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Agric & Biotech

Inadequate rainfall: AFAN seeks Oyo’s assistance on irrigation farming

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Oyo State branch, has solicited assistance of the state government to provide irrigation facilities to farmers to...
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UAE exit from OPEC signals need to reassess Nigeria’s oil strategy – Expert

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