Monthly Archives: December 2015

Nigeria’s food import is growing by about 11 percent per annum, with top imports includingwheat, rice, sugar and fish. The last administration made many attempts to unlock Nigeria’s agricultural potential as the country contains 84 million hectares of arableland, of which only 40 percent is utilized. More alarmingly, only around 0.8 percent of arable landContinueContinue reading “Walking the walk in Nigeria’s agricultural sector”

                                                                                            As global oil prices continue to fall sharply over theContinueContinue reading “Boosting Nigeria Economy through Agriculture”

PARIS (FERN’s Ag Insider) – Due to an initiative launched by France, there is nowan international framework that for the first time brings agricultural soils into climate negotiations. Called “4 per 1,000,” this new proposal aims to protect and increase carbon stocks in soil.The initiative, signed this week by 25 countries including France, Germany, theContinueContinue reading “Carbon Farming May Figure in Climate Mitigation”

AMIDST concerns overby dwindling revenue profile of the country from unstable global oil prices, the stakeholders in the food processing industry, yesterday, expressed belief that the sector has the capacity to become Nigeria’s highest revenue earner if strategically supported and exploited.Already, the Federal Government, through the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment has marked outContinueContinue reading “Nigeria: ‘How to Promote Food Processing As Mega-Revenue Earning Industry’”

Go to:AbstractPesticides are widely used in agricultural production toprevent or control pests, diseases, weeds, and other plant pathogens in an effort to reduce or eliminate yield losses and maintain high product quality. Although pesticides are developed through very strict regulation processes to function with reasonable certainty and minimal impact on human health and theenvironment, seriousContinueContinue reading “Pesticide Exposure, Safety Issues, and Risk Assessment Indicators”

In terms of employment, agriculture is by far the most important sector of Nigeria’s economy, engaging about 70% of the labor force. Agricultural holdings are generally small and scattered; farming is often of the subsistence variety, characterized by simple tools and shifting cultivation. These small farms produce about 80% of the total food. About 30.7ContinueContinue reading “Nigeria – Agriculture”

. The rapid increase in population and the demand forfood, feed, forage and raw materials for industries has initiated a large use of synthetic pesticides. Theuse of toxic pesticides has resulted to harmful effects through bioaccumulation and biomagnifications of heavy metals on the crops, animals and the environment. Though these pesticides are providing hopeful resultsContinueContinue reading “BIOPESTICIDES: A PANACEA FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA”