Changing Nigeria’s Agric Landscape Through Innovation, Technology
The introduction of tracking devices that allow farmers to book tractor services from local tractor owners via a mobile phone app, which is part of...
Month : May 2022
The smart-irrigation tech companies to watch in 2022
The global-smart irrigation market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 15,2% from 2021 to 2030, according to Quince Market Insights. And...
Record levels of child hunger reported in Horn of Africa
Action Against Hunger is the anti-poverty group that raises alarm over war-torn Somalia. Action Against Hunger reported that Somalia has experienced the worst levels of...
Agric Ministry directs MMDAs to enforce temporary ban on export of grains
The Agriculture Ministry has directed Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to strictly enforce a temporary ban on the export of grains including soya beans,...
Leverage on technologies to improve farming
Professor Osei-Agyeman Yeboah, Project Coordinator of North Carolina Agriculture and Technical University has called on farmers to integrate innovations and technology in farming to achieve...
The African Development Bank helps strengthen food security in Niger Maradi and Tillabéry regions
In 2017, 32-year-old Hamsa Hamidou of Simiri in southwest Niger’s Tillabéry region, was given a cow. Three years later, he sold it and used the...
Government ranches are critical for success of agro-industrialisation
Under the agro-industrialisation programme, Uganda seeks to increase commercialisation and competitiveness of agricultural production and agro-processing, government ranches are one of the key enterprises that...