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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 ...

AFDB, stated this on Tuesday in Ibadan at the African Youth Agripreneurs (AYA) Forum organised by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan. The President of the African Development Bank (AFDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says the $280 million approved by the bank would be used to encourage Nigerian youths to go into agro-business. Adesina, represented by Dr Chiji Ojukwu, a Director in AFDB, stated this on Tuesday in Ibadan at the African Youth Agripreneurs (AYA) Forum organised by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that forum was convened to attract youths across Africa into agribusiness as well as mentor them to invest in agriculture. Adesina said with IITA training initiative and the financial support from AFDB, more youths would be interested to go into agribusiness. He said that AFDB was working with 33 countries to give assistance to youths in agriculture. Adesina sai...

In this article, we will examine the failure of agriculture policies in Nigeria from 1972-1985. We will learn how such factors as lack of proper policy formulation, implementation and evaluation led to policy failure in the agriculture sector in Nigeria.  As Nigerians are an agrarian nation, the history of agriculture in Nigeria can be considered as the history of the people. It is no wonder that agriculture served as the mainstay of the economy during the first decade after independence, and accounting for about 71% of Nigerian foreign exchange earnings. The first half of the 1960’s thus witnessed the era of the groundnut pyramids of the North, the palm-oil of the east, and the cocoa plantation of South-West Nigeria. It should be noted that the Nigeria’s agriculture sector successes were achieved after independence mainly because of the legacies of British colonial rule. The administrative system coordinated by the governor general used an export driven policy system to produce...

Twisting of the Head and Neck Sometimes, we you just see your Poultry birds gasping and coughing, dragging their legs, dropping their wings, passing greenish watery faeces and most importantly twisting of the head and neck. You start to wonder what’s wrong with the birds. Let Agric Naija  take you on a ride of what might be the cause, how to prevent it and what can be done in case of occurrence.

Agric Naija is a platform created to share relevant information in terms of articles, images and videos about Agriculture in Nigeria. Agric Naija will be looking into the unexploited aspects of Agribusiness in Nigeria from Agrichemicals, Animal Husbandry, Crop Production, Distribution, Farm Machinery, Processing, and Seed Supply, to Marketing and Retail Sales. Agric Naija welcomes articles from individuals who wishes to impact the general public with their knowledge on Agriculture. Articles can be shared with talk2upsy@gmail.com Ones again, I welcome you to the Number 1 blog on Agriculture in Nigeria, Agric Naija where you'd be able to catch all the trills on Agribusiness.