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FMARD Tasks Importers On Proper Documentation
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), has tasked stockfish and seafood importers with proper documentation in order to avoid illegal importation. FMARD [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Apr-2023
Group Urges Fish Farmers To Embrace Global Standards
The African Women Fish Processors and Traders Network, AWFISHNET has urged aquaculture farmers to embrace international best practices for global acceptance of Nigerian fish. AWFIS [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Apr-2023
ECOWAS Signs Grants Agreements to Promote Training on Agroecology
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray has signed grant agreements with 15 training Centres to build capacity for Agroecology in the Member States. This is par [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Apr-2023
Anambra State to Sustain Preventive Measures Against Flood
Anambra State Government says it is shifting focus to an enlightened and preventive aspect of erosion and flooding control in the state. To achieve this objective, arrangements had [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Apr-2023
Ghana: GCOTTA Blames Rival Association for Shortage of Tomatoes
[Ghanaian Times] The Ghana Cargo Owners and Tomato Traders Association (GCOTTA) have blamed the current shortage of tomatoes on the market, on the illegal seizure of their produce [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Apr-2023
Nigeria: NNPC Board - Federal Govt to Appeal Court Judgement, Experts List Implications
[Leadership] Barely 24 hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja reinstated Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as the non-executive Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Apr-2023
Anambra Ministry Of Environment To Celebrate World Earth Day
The cherished drive for a Clean, Green and Sustainable Anambra, initiated by Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, (CFR), goes into higher gear as the Anambra State Ministry of Environ [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Apr-2023
Liberia: FAO Encourages More Responsible Private Sector Investment
[New Dawn] The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has encouraged private actors to ensure that they make their investments more responsive, responsible, and sustainable to the [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Apr-2023
Nigeria: How Violent Conflicts Erode Agro-Food Systems - the Somalia Experience
[Vanguard] Somalia means many things to many people; some link her to extremism, adverse climate and economic conditions, starvation, poverty and, a weak government. The phobia may [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Apr-2023
Namibia: More Than 600 Unemployed Fishermen Re-Enter Service On Hake Quota Sweetener
[Namibia Economist] By Adolf Kaure. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Apr-2023
Kenya: MPs' PAC Wants Forensic Audit On Fertilizer Subsidy Program Within 30 Days
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Public Accounts Committee are pushing for a forensic audit on the Sh15 billion fertilizer subsidy program by the government across the country. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Apr-2023
Kenya: City Hall, Buenos Aires to Commence City to City Relations in Agribusiness, Youth
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nairobi City and Buenos Aires will soon commence city to city relations and mutual partnerships in various sectors, including agribusiness ventures for the [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Apr-2023
Nigeria: Experts Urge Moderate Application of Pesticides On Crops
[Leadership] Abuja -- Farmers in Nigeria have been advised to exercise carefulness when administering pesticides to crops for healthy living and preservation of the environment. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 18-Apr-2023
Rice processors, farmers groan as foreign rice return to markets
Tribune Online Rice processors, farmers groan as foreign rice return to markets Multiple brands of foreign rice from countries including Thailand and India have returned to markets [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
IAEA, FAO set for climate change tolerant seed varieties
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has commenced the process of exposing seeds to a complex mixture of [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
Stakeholders seek sustainable alternative feed for livestock sector
Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have called for sustainable alternative animal feed resources as part of efforts to solve the challenges of high cost of feed in the livesto [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
Experts highlight risk of GMO adoption
An expert and a lecturer at the University of Abuja, Dr. Casmir Ifeanyi, have warned the federal government against the adoption of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO). According t [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
IFAD Invests in Nigeria’s Agric Sector from 2016 to 2023
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said it has directly invested 604.6 million dollars in Nigeria’s Agricultural sector through domestic and international [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
Nigerian Government Approves New Policy on Agricultural Extension Service
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Abubakar, said the Federal Government has approved a new policy on Agricultural Extension Service, to make the practice [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
Nigerian Government partners with commission to empower nomads
The Federal Government has expressed its commitment to partner with the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) to empower and strengthen the capacity of nomads in the cou [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
Expert cautions farmers on use of pesticides on crops
The Director, Heinrich Boll Foundation Nigeria, Mr Jochen Luckscheiter, has urged farmers to exercise caution when administering pesticides to crops for healthy living and to help [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
Nigeria: Nigeria's Inflation Hits 22.04% As Food Prices Rise
[Premium Times] Food inflation rate quickened to 24.46 per cent in March from 24.35 percent in the previous month [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
Nigeria: No, Fulani Settlers Didn't Invade High School in Southwest Nigeria
[Africa Check] IN SHORT: Online claims that a secondary school in Nigeria was attacked by members of the Fulani ethnic group are false, police say. [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 17-Apr-2023
Nigerian Government partners with stakeholders to boost animal feed production
The Federal Government of Nigeria, and its development partners have proffered a roadmap for National Alternative Feed Resources to reduce cost of production and effects of incessa [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 14-Apr-2023
Bauchi State Assembly to Employ Trained Agric Extension Workers
Following the motion moved by the Member representing Hardawa Constituency, Bauchi state. Hon. Babayo Muhammad, appealing to the Executive Arm on the need to absorb all the agricul [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 14-Apr-2023