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WHY PIG FARMING

WHY PIG FARMING? Pork is the most commonly consumed red meat worldwide, especially in eastern Asia and Africa with Ghana and Nigeria alone consuming over $3billion worth of pork yearly; 75% of which are imported. This gap creates an avenue for a profitable pork investment. Pork investment brings a p...
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POVERTY ERADICATION THROUGH AGRICULTURE

BeAccording to worldbank in June 2017, Agriculture is the first responder to poverty, followed by the manufacturing sector. The contribution of a sector to poverty eradication is due to the participation and effective management of the sector by the populace and the support of the Government. In the...
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WORLD FOOD DAY

World Food Day is a day dedicated to the celebration of the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO), an event organized in over 150 countries across the world, which is set apart in tackling Global hunger. It is held annually on the 16th of October where people from around the world come together to dec...
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WHY IS CASHEW ONE OF THE TOP 5 EXPORTABLE CROPS.

Nigeria is ranked 14th in the global index of cashew nut exports with about 60million dollars made yearly and produces about 20% of the world cashew production.   Exporting cash crops comes with a lot of challenges such as perishability and flaunctuating demands in the international market. Major e...
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AGRO-INVESTMENT AS A MEDIUM OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

There has been a recent call for diversification by economists and public analysts from crude oil as Nigeria’s major export and source of revenue due to the continuous fall in the international price of oil. This has been met with applauds because of the present state of the economy. The state...
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YOUNG FARMERS GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE THE FUTURE

Young Farmers given opportunity to secure the future To catch them young, the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) has launched the Farmers for the Future (F4F) grant aimed to give young people the opportunity to access funds for viable agricultural enterprises. Announcing the initiat...
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Combating post-harvest losses

A third of the global food wastage happens during post-harvest according to international reports. According to figures by the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Nigeria loses about $9 billion yearly due to poor post-harvest management. More than 30 perce...
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60,000 farmers to benefit from $200m APPEALS project fund

Sixty thousand farmers, drawn from six states will benefit from the $200m World Bank assisted project, under the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support Project (APPEALS). This was disclosed at the Project Facilitation Training for facilitators, which ended yeste...
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ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT

Nigerians do not save enough; that’s what the data says. The World Bank pegged our national savings rate at 17% in 2017, below Angola (26%), our fellow petro-state, and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (19%), a cluster of poor countries the World Bank targeted for debt relief. But the data can ...
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ORGANIC AGRICULTURE TO BE USED TO IMPROVE FARMING PRACTICE IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA

  The Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria, Oyo state chapter, Dr Jolade Aderonke Sansi has said that the association would do all within its reach to impact meaningfully on agricultural practice in the state. She made the pledge at Farmers Hall, OYSADEP, Ibadan, Ibarapa ...
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