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Opportunity for investors in growing tea demand
Tea consumption in Nigeria has been growing by 5 percent annually since 2008/2009. Annual per capita consumption of…
Dizengoff trains farmers on greenhouse technology
Dizengoff Nigeria, a member of the Balton CP Group, recently conducted a two-day training for farmers and…
Oyo, SMEDAN kick off agro-based OLOP project
About 90 processors who formed themselves into cooperatives are to participate in the Oyo State agro-based - One…
Abia begins distribution of 600,000 cocoa seedlings to…
Gov. Theodore Orji of Abia on Friday inaugurated the 2014 free distribution of 600,000 improved cocoa seedlings to…
‘I can double staff strength by processing cassava’
Temitope Matthew Adewole, in his late 20s, is a graduate of crop protection and environmental biology from the…
Nigeria on path to food-sufficiency as import cuts hit…
Nigeria may be well on its way to achieving the much anticipated food sufficiency as the nation’s food import bill…
NISER tasks governments to partner private sector,…
To mitigate the incessant food crop losses in Nigeria following the prevalent poor post-harvest management, a team…
Cocoa corporation to achieve .5m tons production by 2015
The much awaited cocoa corporation to become operational this year is expected to facilitate the increase of the…
FUNAAB starts multiplication scheme on aquaculture
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has established a scheme on acquaculture aimed at massive…
Boosting agric mechanisation using local technology
It will make a simple economic sense that using local technology will be more cost effective for Nigerian farmers,…
Agro-processors identify reasons for poor investment…
Stakeholders in the agro-allied sub-sector of agribusiness in Edo State have attributed lack of infrastructure,…
Free insects reduce feeding cost for fish farmers
Some smallholder commercial fish farmers in the South-South region of Nigeria are reducing feeding costs by about…