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The Nigerian Government has commenced a comprehensive review of the National Agricultural Growth Scheme and Agro Pocket Project after recording 2,536,184 metric tonnes of produce valued at N2,312tn ‘over four farming seasons.
This is being touted as part of the food sovereignty policy championed by the ‘Popular Progressive Revolution’.
Botswana confirms outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the northeastern part of the country, prompting quarantine measures.
Senegal views Morocco’s experience as a regional benchmark and is calling for deeper cooperation in agriculture and agro-industry, particularly through private-sector investment.
The President of the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), Sheriff Balogun,, says that Nigeria’s cashew industry has contributed over $400m in export earnings.
Botswana halts imports of cloven-hoofed livestock from Zimbabwe following a foot and mouth outbreak in Mangwe district near its border regions.
Over 15,800 farmers in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province battle a fall armyworm outbreak that has already ravaged 10,000 hectares of cropland.
The Federal Government of Nigeria in partnership with the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Ondo State Government, is set to empower a total of 14,800 youths in agricultural production.
An Algerian court has sentenced businessman Réda Kouninef and his co-defendants to up to ten years in prison for money…
Silagreen International Agro Development Limited, a Nigerian agri-biotech firm, has unveiled the country’s first Embryo Transfer-born Girolando calf at the Harmony Farms centre in Odogbolu, Ogun State in South-western Nigeria/