Agriculture

The latest news on all things agriculture, rural news, and information on farming.

With iCow and M-Farm, smartphones reboot African agriculture

Human food production will need to increase 70 percent by 2050 to meetrising demand and Africa is home to more than half of the world’s unusedar

Nigeria can improve revenue base from shrimps production—Researcher

Why the research on shrimps?The idea was conceived during a PhD field research. Five species of shrimps were caught in 1998 and since then I have had

Plight of Taraba farmers over land ceded to Dominion Farms

In February, 2012, the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Taraba State Government had signed a Memo

‘Food security fund bill can enhance farming’

Many Nigerians, especially those with interest in agriculture, will ask questions such as ‘of what benefit is such a bill to us?’ ‘D

Agro biotechnology: The way to go

The event  was jointly organised by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), National Biotechnology De