Agriculture

By Mbazan Anogo   AFTER a day’s training on weed management in cassava farming systems, extension service providers have resolved to adopt and disseminate best bet weed management practices, including appropriate spacing, tillage, use of improved varieties, and the use of safe and environmentally friendly herbicides. The training, which was …

Africa Food Prize has announced the commencement of the search for the 2018 Africa Food Prize Winner. This is a distinguished award that recognises outstanding indi-viduals or institutions that are leading the effort to change the reality of farming in Africa from a struggle to survive to a business that …

Recently The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) held an international conference in Abuja to present key findings from the 2017 Global Food Policy Report, the latest in an annual analysis of developments in food policy around the developing world, RABIYAT USMAN who was at the event writes: With rapid …

HRM, Eze Philip E. Ajomiwe, the traditional ruler of Oriendu Autonomous community in Ohuhu, Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State. Ndu 1 of Oriendu, was coroneted as the traditional ruler of the said community in 2000. In this chat with our correspondent, Obinna Ibe, the first class Eze …

Sokoto Leads with N14.6bn Benue, N9.9bn Katsina, N8bn: From Ibrahim Goronyo (Sokoto), John Shiando (Makurdi), Dan Amusingha (Minna), Jude Dangwam (Jos), Nicholas Justus (Kaduna), Tunde Oyekola (Ilorin), Julius Atabor (Lokoja), Hisham Habib (Kano), Abubakar Abubakar (Lafia) In a move to diversify their economies and reduce over dependence on the Federation …

Despite the many gains made in Africa’s agricultural in the last decade or so, the sector continues to present a number of paradoxes. Although it is home to close to 60 per cent of the world’s uncultivated land and is widely believed to hold the potential of becoming one of …

By Iorwuese Tyopev: Although there are a lot of benefits in contract farming (CF), it is by no means a panacea to agricultural commercialization and poverty reduction. Several concerns have been raised regarding the desirability of contract farming, foremost of which involves the opportunistic nature of designed CF arrangements, in-transparent …