Agric Naija

The chairman, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Nasarawa State chapter,Abdullahi Adeka has urged Nigerians to embrace farming in order to improve their standard of living and for the overall development of the country.

Cross River takes delivery of 27 containers of rice seedlings equipment, ready for installation Twenty-seven containers of automated rice seedlings equipment have arrived the Ayade industrial park in Calabar, Cross River State and ready for installation.

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Habbis Ugbada, said the Federal Government was considering extending its bilateral agreement with the Republic of Sierra Leone to cover energy, power and agricultural sectors.

Add caption The management of Okomu palm oil company has said that in spite of infrastructure deficit, processed palm oil could become Nigeria’s main foreigner exchange earner. The company’s Managing Director, Mr. Graham Hefer, told Agric Naija on Thursday in Benin there was a bright future for palm oil. Although there are problems of steady power, roads and inconsistent government’s policies, but, “I can say that if all necessary things are put in place, we hope to see palm oil grow in volumes’’. This will ease pressure on foreign exchange and facilitate development of other sectors,’’ he said He said that agriculture was the way to go for Nigeria and palm oil produce could sustain Nigeria’s economy in the future. The palm oil sector in the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is heavy and an indication that there was a large scope for improvement. “ I can see a big boom in the sub-sector only if there is right environment for government-private partnership.’’ he ...

Precision agriculture promises better returns to investment and improved livelihoods for farmers around the world. One of the biggest changes in agriculture in our lifetimes, it is spreading to developing countries, where smart farming technologies, including data collected from satellites and drones, are set to fine tune the way farmers grow their crops. Drones provide valuable and highly precise data that can save farmers time as well as money © Neil Palmer/CIAT For centuries, farmers have planted and harvested according to ancient seasonal patterns, using traditional knowledge to warn of droughts and floods that could threaten crops and livelihoods. Now, farmers are taking a giant step into the future with precision agriculture. Using smart technology, today’s farmers can manage their farm from a laptop to remotely control tractors installed with GPS and instruct distant crop watering systems to turn on and off. Sensors can be placed in fields to measure soil and air tempera...

The Department of Animal Husbandry Services of The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in collaboration with Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) organised a training on Web 2.0, Social and Professional Networking for Development for their Staffs. "Web 2.0" refers to the second generation of web development and web design, characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web.  Social Media is a Web 2.0 innovation encouraging user-generated content and extending the focus to the users by allowing them to curate others content to share among their networks. Speaking with some of the participants of the training, they expressed optimum satisfaction on the training saying it has improved not just their knowledge of Web 2.0, Social and Professional Networking but also their General knowledge. Now I know how to share files via email ...