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• Cassava farmers to reap big from value addition

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:30 Author: Agric Foreign

  Cassava farmers in Pallisa, Bukedea and Soroti districts in eastern Uganda have been trained to process cassava into high quality flour for industrial use. The move is part of the comprehensive strategy by Africa Innovations Institute to fight poverty t...

• Biopesticides markets to reach $1bn in 2015

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:29 Author: Agric Foreign

  A new report from Frost & Sullivan says increasing demand for chemical-free crops and more organic farming has led to augmented usage of biopesticides in North America and Western Europe. The value of biopesticides in those combined markets were $594.2 ...

• Rwanda wins praise over food security

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:28 Author: Agric Foreign

  Rwanda has joined Malawi as the next successful example of a green revolution in Africa. Besides Tanzania, Rwanda is the only other East African country that has committed at least 10 per cent of its budgetary allocations to agriculture as part of its ...

• Reviving Bauchi Meat Factory

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:24 Author: SANI ADAMU

      When it was established by the defunct Northern Nigeria Government  45 years ago, the Bauchi Meat Factory used to slaughter an average of 250  cattle daily. It was then managed by an Argentine firm. Records show that the company was fam...

• UNIDO to establish banana processing plant in Ekiti

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:19 Author: ROTIMI OJOMOYELA -Ekiti State

  Efforts of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to establish a banana processing plant in Ilawe-Ekiti, in Ekiti South West Local Government Area, for local consumption and export is beginning to yield fruits as banana productio...

• Major challenge in fish farming identified

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:18 Author: UMOH ETUKNWA

  The Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR), Lagos has identified disease outbreaks as a major challenge in fish farming. The Executive Director of NIOMR, Mr. Olajide Ayinla, disclosed this in Lagos at a training workshop on fis...

• Poor countries still face high food prices

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:16 Author: JOE DE CAPUA

  The poorest countries continue to face very high food prices, even though prices have dropped elsewhere in the world. That's according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's new Crop Prospects and Food Situation Report, released prior to the Wor...

• Nigeria lags behind in MDG’s target on agric

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:15 Author: UMOH ETUKNWA with agency report

  In spite of the Federal Government’s recent focus on agriculture, Nigeria still lags behind in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target on agriculture. This was revealed at the African conference with the theme, “Exploring new opportu...

• Ondo earmarks N200m for procurement of farm implements

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:12 Author: PETER DADA, Akure

    The Ondo State government has set aside N200 million to procure farm implements and chemicals for  distribution to farmers at subsidised prices. Governor Olusegun Mimiko said this was part of his administration’s commitment to the develop...

• Group trains 50 on fish, vegetable farming

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:11 Author: PERCY ONYEJEKWE, Nnewi

  A group known as the Food and Agricultural Development in Africa (OFADA) has commenced a training programme on fish and vegetable farming for more than 50 rural farmers in Ojoto Community in Anambra State. Ichie Ndubisi, Operations Manager of the Non-G...

• Don identifies reasons for global warming

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:10 Author: PERCY ONYEJEKWE, Nnewi

  Prof. Philips Adetiloye of the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, has identified the aerial bombing in the Middle-East as a major cause of the current global warming. The professor of agriculture told a news conference in Abeokuta that he decided to ...

• Anambra to achieve food security before 2015 - ADP programme manager

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:07 Author: PERCY ONYEJEKWE, Nnewi

  The Agricultural Development Project (ADP) Programme Manager for Anambra State, Comrade Leo Imoka, has said that the state would achieve food security before 2015. he made the statement in view of the current efforts of the Anambra State government towa...

• FAO approves stronger world food security governance

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:05 Author: BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO, Lokoja

  The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) top governing body has cleared the way for setting up a stronger and more effective system of global food security governance, the UN agency said in a statement issued from its headquarters in Rome, I...

• How AFAN, NYSC members marked World Food Day in Kogi

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:03 Author: BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO, Lokoja

  PRECISELY 18 years after its creation, Kogi State last week observed her first World Food Day in Lokoja, the state capital. The occasion,  tagged “Achieving food security in times of crisis,” was devoid of any government support. Farmers...

• Eid-el-Kabir pushes up prices of foodstuffs

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 04:01 Author: UMOH ETUKNWA

  Due to the Eid-el Kabir celebration, prices of foodstuffs went up in many parts of the country. A market survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) showed that prices of rams went up by about 50 per cent in Abuja during the celebration. At Du...

• Food summit raises more questions than answers

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 03:57 Author: UMOH ETUKNWA

  The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) recently organized a food summit in Rome, Italy. The theme was “Achieving food security in times of crisis.” However, critics say the summit, like the ones before it, did not achieve much and that...

• Africa: Reflecting on global economic crisis and way forward

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 03:54 Author: DONALD KABERUKA

    Continued from last edition Today, one can discern three zones of economic activity among the so-called systemically important economies responsible for these imbalances: • The OECD countries; • The emerging markets such as China, I...

• Budget of controversy

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 03:48 Author: Uzor Maxim Uzoatu

  Nigerians have over the years grown used to the annual budget ritual of Mr. President addressing a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives. In this year of Our Lord, all hell broke loose. The Senators wanted the Reps to come into th...

• FIFA World Cup 2010 : Southern Africa expects benefits

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 03:34 Author: Steve Vickers

  As the excitement grows in South Africa  ahead of the 2010 World Cup, many other countries in the southern African region have high expectations that they too will benefit from the tournament. Countries across the region have made huge investmen...

• Tottenham plot transfer raid for Man City star

  Created: Monday, 30 November 2009 03:31 Author: Sport desk

  Tottenham wants1 to sign Micah Richards in the January transfer window. The Manchester City defender is unhappy at Eastlands and, although he is fit, was nowhere near the squad that drew 2-2 with Liverpool at Anfield last weekend. Spurs are huge...