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NAQS empowers 102 Osun farmers with cassava, yam businesses
Tribune Online NAQS empowers 102 Osun farmers with cassava, yam businesses IN order to boost their capacity for optimal production, the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NA [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Potato farmers advocate improved technology to preserve perishable foods
Tribune Online Potato farmers advocate improved technology to preserve perishable foods NATIONAL President, Potato Farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN), Mr Daniel Okafor, has sa [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Pandagric Novum expresses committment to redefine future of agriculture in Nigeria
Tribune Online Pandagric Novum expresses committment to redefine future of agriculture in Nigeria INTEGRATED feed and food manufacturing company, Pandagric Novum, has reiterated i [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Association trains women, youths on mechanized poultry business
The Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) has trained over 50 residents of Ajeromi/Ajegunle Federal Constituency, Lagos State, on agro-mechanized poultry business. The fiv [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Agriculture Ranks High In Nation Building Survey – ABUBAKAR
The Honorable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar stated that Agricultural sector topped the chart in a survey report of National Bureau of [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Nigeria: Supreme Feeds Harps On Effective Collaboration to Address Challenges in Nigeria's Poultry Industry
[This Day] The Pandagric Novum Limited (PNL), manufacturers of Supreme Feeds, has emphasised that increased partnership with customers is needed to tackle the challenges facing pou [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Liberia: Thirteen Local Businesses, Agricultural Cooperatives Benefit U.S.$40,000 Each From UNDP
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Thirteen local businesses and agricultural cooperatives have secured US$40,000 each from UNDP with the aim of improving their local businesses and agr [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Africa: UN Spotlights Transformational Potential of Family Farming for World Food Supply
[UN News] A Global Forum highlighting the UN's Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) got underway on Monday, aimed at identifying priority policies to boost support for family farmers a [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Africa: South Africa's Farm Exports Are an Economic Lifeline - With Weak Spots
[The Conversation Africa] International trade has been at the core of South Africa's agricultural progress since the early 2000s. Since 1994, the country has excelled in opening up [...]
Region: N/A
Date: 20-Sep-2022
Agro-Export Rejects: Nigerian Government receives Technical Committee’s Report
The Nigerian Government has received the Report of a Technical Committee which was set up to prevent the rejection of agro-exports from the country. The Minist [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Sep-2022
Expert pushes for mechanised Agriculture in Nigeria
A mechanised farming Expert and Kwara State Project Coordinator for Fadama NG-CARES, Busari Isiaka has urged governments at all levels in Nigeria to intensify mechanised agricultur [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Sep-2022
Forest Services Pushes for Beekeeping and Crop Farming Model for High Productivity
[Daily News] Mara -- Tanzania Forest Services (TFS) has advised Tanzanians to embark on beekeeping and crop farming model for increased productivity. [...]
Agriculture Crop ProductionCountry: Tanzania
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Sep-2022
Govt Allays Fears Over Harmful Chemicals Used for Preserving Fish
[Daily News] Dodoma -- The government has issued a bold stance over the much circulated news that some people were using chemicals for embalming dead bodies to preserve fish, insis [...]
Agriculture Chemicals FisheryCountry: Tanzania
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Sep-2022
Association advocates improved technology to preserve perishable foods
Mr Daniel Okafor, National President, Potato Farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN), says food security can be achieved in the country through technologically improved measures of [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Sep-2022
Ministry Restates Commitment to Address Challenges Besetting Agriculture Sector
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has said it will address all conceivable challenges besetting the agriculture sector with a focus on strengthening [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Sep-2022
Regional Media Organization calls for Climate Change journalism fellowship
By Yusuf Akinlotan, Lagos Following the global climate change crisis affecting all regions around the world including West African region, a Ghanaian based Media Foundation for We [...]
Environment, Health & Safety Water/SanitationCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Sep-2022
PBR Cowpea Release In Nigeria a Milestone for Africa- AATF
By Ene Okwanihe, Abuja The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) says Nigeria’s commercial release of the Pod Borer (Maruca Vitrata) resistant Cowpea (PBR Cowpea) va [...]
Country: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Sep-2022
Somalia On the Brink of Famine - Aid Efforts Risk Failing Marginalised Communities Yet Again
[The Conversation Africa] Somalia is facing a humanitarian crisis of enormous severity and magnitude. This follows four failed rainy seasons, protracted conflict, political instabi [...]
Country: Somalia
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Sep-2022
Africa: How Continent Can Escape Chronic Food Insecurity Amid #AfricaClimateCrisis
[IMF] The toll of extreme weather events on crops underscores the region's challenges and need for policies to save lives and protect livelihoods. [...]
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Sep-2022
56% of Nigeria's Agricultural Land Not in Use, Says Minister
[This Day] The federal government has disclosed that 56 per cent of Nigeria's arable land is underutilised. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Sep-2022
3 More Counties Slide Into Alarm Phase as Drought Worsens
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The drought situation has continued to worsen in 20 of the 23 Arid and Semi - Arid Lands (ASAL) counties due to moderate off - season rains, with three more [...]
AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 16-Sep-2022
Pending Nightmare - ' Millions At Risk of Famine
[DW] If nothing is done within days, people in Somalia will start dying, according to the Red Cross. Experts say that lessons from previous famines have to be learned to prevent ma [...]
Country: Somalia
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Sep-2022
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Food but Microscopic Algae Offer Answers
[The Conversation Africa] In 2021 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the first volume of its latest authoritative report on climate change. The United Nations sec [...]
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Sep-2022
Sng Organises Learning Exchange On Agroforestry Practices... for Women in Shea Business
[Ghanaian Times] Tamale -- The Shea Network Ghana (SNG), a leading shea business networking organisation in Ghana, has organised a learning exchange on agroforestry practices with [...]
AgricultureCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Sep-2022
UNITAMS Head Tells UNSC - 'Sudan Humanitarian Insecurity At Record Levels'
[Dabanga] New York -- "Sudan has seen new political developments but also a continued deterioration of the socio-economic situation" Volker Perthes, UN Special Representative for S [...]
Country: Sudan
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Sep-2022