Agriculture

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Why Katsina farmers abandoned large scale cocoyam farming

Cocoyam farmers in Katsina State have expressed concern over how, for almost a decade now, leaf blight disease has been hindering large scale producti

Preventing your groundnuts from aflatoxins contamination right from farm

3 new improved varieties (Sumnut 24, 25 and 26) now available Aflatoxins concentration in all the local groundnut varieties produced in Nigeria is sai

Lightning strikes dead 23 cows in Ekiti community

Deafening lightning on Tuesday struck dead about 23 cows at Okeowa Eluju, a farmstead in Iloro-Ekiti, Ijero Local Government area of the state. The li

Kidnapping forcing us out of our farms – Kaduna farmers

Farmers in Kaduna state have abandoned their farm produce in farms for fear of being kidnapped by armed men in Igabi Local Government Area of the stat

Why our agric produce still face export rejection — Quarantine Service

Against the backdrop of the EU sanction on Nigerian beans for not meeting standard, Dr Vincent Isegbe, Coordinating Director, Nigerian Agricultural Qu