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Agriculture Stakeholders Appeal for Incentives to Organic Farmers
[New Times] Researchers have called for incentives to support organic farmers and also help link them to buyers inside and outside the country. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Rwanda
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
Buhari Unveils Rice Pyramid in Abuja
[Vanguard] President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled a 1.2 million -bag paddy rice pyramid, in Abuja. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
Farmers Group Says Price of Rice to Fall As Buhari Launches Pyramids
[Premium Times] The rice pyramids were built with one million bags of rice paddy planted and harvested from states across the country. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
National Committee registers, releases 11 new seed varieties for improved agricultural production
Tribune Online National Committee registers, releases 11 new seed varieties for improved agricultural production THE National Committee on naming, registration and release of c [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
How Nigeria can maximise fish production for export —FUTA don
Tribune Online How Nigeria can maximise fish production for export —FUTA don FOR Nigeria to achieve self-sufficiency in fish production and leverage its vast ocean resource f [...]
Agriculture FisheryCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
Cooking Gas: Ikeazor Commends NLNG on New Policy
Nigeria’s Minister of State for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor has commended the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG Limited for its decision to suspend the exportation of cooki [...]
Oil and GasCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
Exportation of Donkey Hide Still Prohibited in Nigeria, Says NAQS
The Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) has said the exportation of donkey hide remains on the Export Prohibition List. Reacting to a news report that suggested that NAQ [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
Nigeria Can Maximize Fish Production For Export ― FUTA Don
For Nigeria to achieve self-sufficiency in fish production and leverage its vast ocean resource for export, it needs to adopt relevant technologies that will lead to a reduction in [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
The 'Mustaqbal Misr' Project for Agricultural Production in the Western Desert
[Egypt Online] The "Mustaqbal Misr" (Egypt's Future) project is located within the area of the giant project of "New Delta", along the new Rod El Farag\ El Dabaa axis, near the air [...]
AgricultureCountry: Egypt
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
Boer Goat Project Breeds Big Bucks
[The Herald] A Boer goat breeding project has become viable and high income business for 36-year-old, Terrence Muripo, with one pure breed goat fetching as high as US$2 000. [...]
AgricultureCountry: Zimbabwe
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
It Took 500 Yrs, but Bayelsa Riverine Community Now Has Road
[Vanguard] Igbedi -- RESIDENTS of Igbedi community, a fishing and farming settlement on the bank of the Igbedi Creek, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, are ove [...]
Infrastructure and Construction AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 18-Jan-2022
Price of Rice to come down in Nigeria – RIFAN
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) says plans have been concluded to launch the 1 million bags of rice paddy stacked as pyramids in Abuja on Tuesday. Mr Shehu Muazu, [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Jan-2022
How Nigeria can maximise fish production for export ― FUTA don
Tribune Online How Nigeria can maximise fish production for export ― FUTA don For Nigeria to achieve self-sufficiency in fish production and leverage its vast ocean resource [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Jan-2022
Africa: AfCFTA - What Has Worked and the Way Forward On Agricultural Trade
[Africa Renewal] Building on the gains for inclusive and harmonised food and business value chains. [...]
AgricultureRegion: Africa
Date: 17-Jan-2022
Nigeria’s ratio of agric extension workers to farmers lowest in Africa
Nigeria has the lowest ratio of agricultural extension workers to farmers in Africa, a new report has said. The African Seed Access Index (TASAI) 2020 Report ranked Rwanda as the [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Jan-2022
IDH, Alluvial partner to help 15,000 Nigerian rice farmers boost yields
Alluvial Agriculture, a community farming initiative supporting thousands of farmers, is partnering IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, to help 15,000 Nigerian rice farmers opti [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Jan-2022
Kano Farmers Project Increase in Tomato Price Over Dam Closure
Following the closure of the Tiga Dam in Kano State, tomato farmers in the state have expressed fear that tomato prices may rise this season, as the dam is the major source of irri [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Jan-2022
Ghana does not face imminent external imbalances; economic fundamentals strong – Finance Minister
The Finance Ministry has dismissed reports that Ghana’s economy is running into financial challenges, saying, the country does not face any imminent external imbalances or reserv [...]
FinancialCountry: Ghana
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Jan-2022
5,000 Farmers to Benefit From KCB Foundation Sh50 Million Programme
[Capital FM] Nairobi Kenya -- More than 5,000 farmers in the livestock value chain are set to benefit from KCB Foundation's Sh50million Mifugo Ni Mali programme which will provide [...]
Education/Training AgricultureCountry: Kenya
Region: Africa
Date: 17-Jan-2022
Kano Dairy Union, Outspan vaccinate 1,500 cattle against foot, mouth disease
Outspan Nigeria Limited, the dairy business of Olam Food Ingredients has extended its support for the local dairy industry by partnering with Kano Dairy Union to vaccinate no fewer [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Jan-2022
Nigeria’s Agric Sector to Grow by 1.6% in 2022 – Economic Expert
An economic expert and the Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives, Bismarck Rewane, has projected the Nigerian agriculture sector to grow by 1.6 per cent by the end of 20 [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Jan-2022
Kano Agro project vaccinates 1.3 million livestock
About 1, 364, 612 livestock (cows, goats and sheep) were vaccinated during the 2021 livestock vaccination campaign conducted in Kano state by the Kano State Agro-Pastoral Developme [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 15-Jan-2022
NLNG set To crash price of Cooking Gas priortise Supply To Domestic Market
The Board of Directors of Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has approved the supply of 100 per cent of the company’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) production (Propane & Butane) to t [...]
Oil and GasCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 14-Jan-2022
School Feeding Programme Boosts School Enrollment across Nigeria
Ene Okwanihe, Abuja The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says The National Home-Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSFP) has significantly increased school enrollment [...]
Agriculture Food & BeverageCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 14-Jan-2022
National Dairy Policy Will Curb Importation of Livestock Products – FG
To boost the local dairy industry and curb the heavy dependency on imported dairy products, the Federal Government, on Tuesday, said the implementation of the National Dairy Policy [...]
AgricultureCountry: Nigeria
Region: Africa
Date: 14-Jan-2022