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Nollywood Has Major Role In Projecting Nigeria’s Agriculture Globally — AgroNigeria CEO. By: Ben O'Brian AgroNigeria CEO, Mr Richard-Mark Mbaram, says the Nollywood industry has a major role in projecting Nigeria’s agriculture digitally to the world. Mbaram made the assertion while speaking to the  News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  on the telephone on the two-day “Feed Nigeria Summit” with the theme, “Consolidating the Growth” which would end in Abuja on Tuesday. He said that the movie industry, as private sector players, would be driving policies and proffering solutions to address challenges in the agriculture sector. AgroNigeria CEO: According to him, the Nollywood had the capacity to retain attention from an entertainment perspective. AgroNigeria CEO, Mbaram said the annual summit, organised by AgroNigeria and supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB) was driving at using actors to mobilise people and resources for the development of agriculture. Nollywood Has Majo...

Firm Partners Institute On New Farming Initiative By:  Ben O'Brain New Farming Initiative” The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture ( CIAT ) has announced a partnership with the Alluvial Agriculture, a collective farming business grouping thousands of smallholders in Nigeria. CIAT, a research centre for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research ( CGIAR ) – a global research partnership for a food-secure future supported by private foundations, national governments and multilateral development agencies – would sign its agreement with Alluvial on the opening day of the Feed Nigeria Summit, the biggest annual gathering focused on this nation’s frontline role in addressing global food security. The agreement was signed in Abuja on Monday. Alluvial is tackling systemic problems that leave most African smallholders in poverty and threaten food security across the developing world by aggregating farmers to create a nucleus of minimum efficient scale and...

LCCI Lauds FG’s New Strategies To Solve Farmers, Herdsmen Clashes by NAN By  abdulsalam Olawale  - August 3, 2018 0 Post Views: 180 The Agriculture Trade Group of the  Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry  (LCCI) on Tuesday lauded the Federal Government’s move to garner new strategies to solve farmers and herdsmen clashes in the country. The Chairman of the group, Mr Tunji Falade, gave the commendation while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos against the backdrop of President Mohammadu Buhari’s trip to the Netherlands on July 14. Falade said that it was not a bad idea for the president to seek new ways and techniques that would ease the problems of cattle rearing in the country. LCCI Lauds FG’s New Strategies To Solve Farmers, Herdsmen Clashes According to him, it is important to seek change in ways of doing certain things as the country’s population continues to grow. “I see the move as a way of trying new ways to solve a prob...

A’Ibom RIFAN Gets 40, 000 Tonnes Of Rice Seedlings From FG by NAN By: Ben O'Brian “RIFAN  Rice  Seedlings”  Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Akwa Ibom Chapter, says it has taken delivery of 40,000 tonnes of high grade rice seedlings from the Federal Government for wet season farming. Akwa Ibom Chairman of RIFAN, Ita Akan, told newsmen in Uyo on Thursday that the rice seedlings would be distributed to 7, 000 registered rice farmers in the state. Akan, who was represented by Mr Emmanuel Essienobom, RIFAN Secretary, said that the association had captured the data of registered rice farmers to ascertain their authenticity. (RIFAN Rice Seedlings) “We are expecting a large quantity of fertilizers from the national level for onward distribution to farmers after cultivating their rice. (RIFAN Rice Seedlings) “More farm inputs such as herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, in addition to more high quality rice seedlings, a...

Conserving Farm Data Makes Entry To Finance Simpler by CALEB OJEWALE By: Ben O'Brian “Conserving Farm Data” Piet Jan Thibaudier, a small holder farmer in Lemmer, Netherlands handed out his farm’s monetary statements for the final three years, throughout a go to final month, capturing just about the whole lot from revenue, to bills, and amount of cash obtainable in financial institution and privately. Thaudier is a dairy farmer, who owns 180 cows, with a ranch occupying 100 hectares of land. 45 ha is owned by him, 25 ha is on lengthy lease, whereas the remaining 30 ha is on quick lease. Skipping by means of all these particulars, and offering one thing extra ‘healthful’, he was requested how a lot his income was for final 12 months, and the calculation was round 500,000 Euros (from milk), out of which revenue got here all the way down to about 200,000 Euros (roughly N82 million). He nonetheless had different revenue similar to gross sales of a pasture ...

How To Set Up Soymilk Mini Factory (Step By Step Guide) By  abdulsalam Olawale  - February 22, 2018 1 Post Views: 51 Are you one of those at a loss on what kind of agribusiness they can  embark on in 2018  even with little capital? Soymilk production may be the niche that will guarantee you financial freedom this year. Follow me in this piece as I reveal to you the secret of soymilk production. Soya bean is a very important global crop because of its chemical composition of over 36 per cent protein, 30 per cent carbohydrates, dietary fibre, vitamins and mineral salts. It plays important role in fighting malnutrition, especially protein deficiency in Africa where animal protein is hard to come-by by the poor masses. Of all crops that are sources of protein, only soybeans provide cheap and high quality protein comparable to that of meat, poultry and eggs. Soymilk Production Soya bean grows well in many states of the federation. It can be source cheaply i...