AS part of the efforts at improving the entrepreneurship skills of staff and students of Osun State Polytechnic Iree, a five-day workshop was organised for the polytechnic community on apiary, bee keeping and honey production.

Prices of imported and local rice have fallen in Kano, following the crash of CFA Francs in the parallel market.
A price survey conducted by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the Singer market in Kano on Sunday, revealed that a bag of 50kg of imported rice, which used to cost between N13, 800 and N14 500, now sells for N12, 500.

Mr Afolabi Kayode, President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Osun, has advised the government to provide standard storage facilities to store tomatoes during the period of harvest.

The Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Flour Millers Association of Nigeria to fix the minimum price of wheat at N140, 000 per tonne.

The Catfish Farmers Association of Nigeria (CAFAN) in Oyo State has begun production of fish crackers as a local alternative to imported prawn crackers, a popular snack among Nigerians.

Most Nigerians consume crops like maize, groundnut and cassava, but unknown to majority these crops are susceptible to Aflatoxins, which are highly toxic to humans and animals. Aflatoxin is a poison produced by the ubiquitous fungus Aspergillus flavus that infects various crops in the fields and stores making food and feed unsafe. According to Scientists, consuming foods containing Aflatoxins can cause death both in animals and human. Aflatoxins are estimated to cause about 5 percent to 30 percent of all liver cancers especially in developing countries like Nigeria.

One major problem having an open tomato farm is it can be affected by the weather. Hence, the need to control your production and one way of doing it is by building a greenhouse. A greenhouse is a building where plants are grown; it enables you have crops at the time of the year when they can’t be grown. It comes in different sizes from small to a large sized building.

A Soil Scientists, Prof. Lateef Taiwo and his team at the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, have detected Armyworms devastating maize farms around South-West ecology.

Every year, thousands of young Africans join an exodus from their families’ small, often struggling farms in the countryside. Their dream – sometimes fulfilled, often not – is to find a more rewarding and stimulating life in the continent´s rapidly growing cities. Few return, but even fewer ever completely sever their ties.

Kaduna state government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency after moths destroyed swathes of tomato fields, threatening supplies of the country’s leading staple food.

Dangote Group of Companies on Tuesday said the organisation would create 210,000 jobs for the unemployed Nigerians in agriculture between now and 2018 in agricultural sector.

To ensure food safety, the State government said plans are underway to increase the aggregate food supply of the State from less than 15 percent to 25 percent within the next four years through various projects and programmes.

The President of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Arch. Kabiru Ibrahim, has blamed those he called brief-case farmers as those opposed to agricultural biotechnology in the country.

The gap in tomatoes production in the country currently put at about 1.4 million tonnes can be filled by the greenhouse technological concept which is capable of creating huge employment opportunity for Nigerians.

Participants at the just concluded 12th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program Partnership Platform (CAADP PP) in Accra, Ghana have called on the private sector to translate Malabo commitment into bankable business plans that can attract required resources necessary for accelerated implementation.