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Study knocks AGRA, alleges its promises are untrue

A study that assessed activities of the Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA) has issued the agricultural organisation a negative report card. Released on Monday,...

Innovation key to unlocking Africa’s agriculture potential

Agriculture is the fulcrum of Africa’s economy, with growth-enabling roles that cut across all crucial sectors despite its seemingly dwindling share of the continent’s...

Lagos distributes maize, sorghum to 15 farm settlements to avert food scarcity

The Lagos State Government  has begun the distribution of maize and sorghum to no less than 15 feed millers, farm settlements and other stakeholders...

Africa’s most vulnerable called to bear brunt of Covid-19

One of world’s harshest terrains for farming threatens to crumble under COVID-19.  West Africa’s farmer collectives, small businesses and other stakeholders in agriculture reveal...

Kenya to use drones, mobile apps to assess impact of desert locust

Kenya’s Agriculture Ministry on Monday, May 18, 2020 said it will, in July, use drones and mobile applications to help assess the impact caused...

AfDB supports Nigerian youths with dry season farming irrigation technologies

Ayuba Abimiku, a young rice farmer at Gidan Mai-Akuya community in Nasarawa State, North-central Nigeria, is excited. Ayuba is witnessing the operation of a pressured...

Osinbajo inaugurates $1.5bn fertiliser plant in Port Harcourt

Nigeria’s Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, July 27, 2017 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, inaugurated an imposing fertiliser plant, built by Indorama Eleme...

Study links deaths in Bangladeshi children to agriculture chemicals

Excessive and improper applications of insecticides and other agriculture chemicals in local fruit orchards may have triggered an outbreak of  acute encephalitis syndrome (AES),...

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NNPC/First E&P JV empowers NGOs with N53.4m

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) and First...
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NCDMB Co-Chair, Ekpo meets Exec Sec, pledges support for local content programmes

The Co-Chair of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Minister of State...

Summit to secure $4bn commitments to close clean cooking funding gap for African women

Development partners gathering in Paris on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, are expected to pledge towards the $4 billion needed...

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NNPC/First E&P JV empowers NGOs with N53.4m

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives,...

NCDMB Co-Chair, Ekpo meets Exec Sec, pledges support for local content programmes

The Co-Chair of the Governing Council of the Nigerian...
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