Monthly Archives: November 2015

The permanent secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Sonny Echono, has lamented that the most critical problems facing farmers in rural communities in Nigeria is inadequate high quality seeds.“As a result farmers are left with no option than to obtain seeds from the previous season’s harvest or purchase grains from the market forContinueContinue reading “‘Inadequate High Quality SeedsMost Critical Challenge Facing Farmers’”

HUNDREDS of farmers gathered at Akinale, an ancient town in Ewekoro Local Government area of Ogun State recently to receive pro vitamin A cassava stems delivered to them by HarvestPlus, a global alliance dedicated to eradicating ‘Hidden Hunger’ in the world.According to Paul Ilona, Country Manager of HarvestPlus, Nigeria, millions of people around the worldContinueContinue reading “Nigeria: Tackling Hidden Hunger With Vit. A Cassava”

Operating a small aerial drone over hundreds of acres of corn, Zach Fiene can receive detailed pictures of the crop on his iPad.From the images, or a live video, he can see exactly what parts of a field are struggling with plant disease, insects or a lack of water. In a matter of minutes, heContinueContinue reading “Basic Application of Drones technology in Agriculture.”

The magnitude of the problem» Little reliable data is available on the extent of land degradation in Africa. However, anyone who has travelled through the continent has observed that land degradation is widespread and serious. The presence of gullies and sand dunes, of degraded forests and grazing lands are obvious, although the effects of sheetContinueContinue reading “Land and environmental degradation and desertification in Africa.”

Today, as it is typical of me I decided to make research on a very interesting topic. You probably would have heard of e-mail, e-commerce, e-business, e-governance, and if you love shopping: e-bay!But many who have heard of e-Agriculture probably don’t know what it means and how it affects them either as individuals or asContinueContinue reading “e-Agriculture and its role in reducing unemployment and Hunger”

The toughest environmental challenge of the 21st century is climate change. Global warming, rising sea levels, drought, and other extreme climate related events such as flooding, storms, all resultant effects of climate change have the capacity to wreck national economies, create food insecurity and threaten the very survival of the human species. Against this setting,ContinueContinue reading “FORESTS AND THE VAGARIES OF CLIMATE CHANGE”