Agriculture

Yemisi Izuora  Nigeria’s former President and IITA Goodwill Ambassador, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi at the weekend commissioned two key projects at the International…

Yemisi Izuora  Nigerian farmers can now access extension and advisory services related to weed control, best planting practices and other aspects of cassava production on their cell phone free of…

Yemisi Izuora   Northern State Governors have been reminded on the need to strongly influence investments in the agricultural sector for the steady development of the region. Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the…

Yemisi Izuora  The Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Dr Nteranya Sanginga has said that the collaboration between IITA and Sudan will put smiles on the…

Yemisi Izuora  Cote d’Ivoire, Africa’s largest cocoa producer, has sent a delegation to Nigeria to understudy the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Youth Agripreneur (IYA) Model, as part of…

Yemisi Izuora  In its continuing efforts to fight poverty and hunger, the Nigeria Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program-Phase 1, ATASP-1 Outreach Program, unveiled a new tractor and other farm implements…

Yemisi Izuora  The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has raised concern that if appropriate measures were not taken to replant after the recent flood, the country…

Yemisi Izuora  A new research has discovered a specie of banana that could resist devastating disease that has hampered bountiful harvest in Africa. The research carried out by a team…

  Yemisi Izuora  The Managing Director, Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, NAIC, Mrs Folashade Joseph, has sympathized with farmers and assured its insured farmers in the various states, being ravished by…