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.