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“How to feed our cities? Agriculture and rural areas in an era of urbanisation” – that was the theme of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, or for short, the GFFA, hosted in Berlin in mid-January. With Habitat IIItaking place in October in Quito, Ecuador, urbanisation features on top of the agenda of manyContinueContinue reading “What urbanisation means for rural areas in Africa”

Tilapia Aquaculture Developers Association of Nigeria has harvested the first set of tilapia fishes at a ground-breaking ceremony in Iseyin, Oyo State, last Saturday. At the event which held at Ikere Gorge Dam, the Managing Director, Ogun-Oshun River Basin Development Authority, Engr. Akintunde Soyemi lauded the achievement of TADAN and assured greater support of fishContinueContinue reading “TADAN HARVESTS 2016 FIRST TILAPIA FISHES”

ABSTRACT This project was designed by studying the effect of yellow bush leaves and ixora leaves to determine the heavy metals uptake of egg plants in an oil polluted soil. The research took place at Faculty of Agricultural science of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho. The experiment was laid out in DMRT (Duncan MultipleContinueContinue reading “REDUCING THE STRESS OF OIL SPILLAGE ON GARDEN EGG USING YELLOW BRUSH AND IXORA AS HEAVY METAL BINDERS”

The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said that agribusiness in the livestock sector will be improved and expanded to include commercial production of grass for feeding cattle. This, the minister said, would bring to an end the roaming of the cattle rearers and perennial conflicts between the pastoralists and farmersContinueContinue reading “Livestock: FG To Embark On Commercial Production Of Grass – Audu Ogbeh”

Those who feed the world are already carrying the burden of climate change. Drought, floods and extreme weather events are adversely affecting smallholder farmers on every continent, causing hunger, poverty, death, and putting future food security in jeopardy. The Paris climate conference’s agenda is packed with events and meetings to stress the urgency of measuresContinueContinue reading “What place for agricultural innovation at COP21?”

In order to accelerate the development of Nigeria’s agricultural sector and ensure food security, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that agriculture must be treated as a business. The president stated this in Calabar yesterday while declaring open the 55th annual general meeting of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA). BuhariContinueContinue reading “Agriculture Must Be Treated As A Business – Buhari”

Lucrativeness of farming has been promoted by several bloggers, newspapers and “Agribusiness Consultants”, so much that everyone, young and old, rich and poor, men and women are trooping towards it, in many cases blindly. This interest in farming is a good sign, but the concerns of what really drives young people towards farming remain. BelowContinueContinue reading “Things You Need To Have Before You Venture Into Any Kind Of Farming”

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”