Oyo State Governor-Elect, Engr. Seyi Makinde has pledged to pay special attention to agricultural development when he is sworn-in on May 29, 2019. He gave this assurance at the opening ...
The Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, turned 50 on Monday, April 1, 2019, and the institution is putting up a number of activities to celebrate the milestone. ...
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has ordered the army to buy up the entire country’s crop of cashew nuts after private companies refused to pay the price fixed by his government. ...
African leaders urgently need to depart from mere rhetoric and begin to take action in solving the continents problems marked by poverty, unemployment, hunger and malnutrition, says the Director-General of ...
The Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi on Thursday called on Agricultural Research Institutes and other stakeholders to come up with innovative and proactive ideas that will enhance Agriculture ...
Oyo State Government will on Thursday and Friday October 11 and 12, 2018 hold an agriculture investment summit with the theme: “Transforming Oyo State’s Agriculture and Agro –Allied Industry: Private ...
The Oyo State Government has cultivated 24 hectares of maize grains under the Oyo Agricultural Initiative (AgricOyo) in the 2018 planting season. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Natural Resources and ...
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) based in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital in Nigeria, has won the 2018 Africa Food Prize being given out by the African Green ...
Executive Director of the Dangote Group, Hajiya Halima Aliko-Dangote has urged millennials in Nigeria and across Africa to diversify from service-oriented enterprises to manufacturing and agriculture in a bid to ...
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Oyo State Government on Wednesday signed a deal to develop an agricultural blueprint for the state, and the establishment of agribusiness ...
Kogi West Senatorial District can become the food basket of the nation if the farmers in the area are empowered. Princess Olayemi Joledo-Ayomah, who expressed this opinion, stated further that ...
The Federal Government will soon begin artificial insemination of cattle at its different research institutes and centres to aid multiplication of cows and increase milk production in the country. Chief ...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the constitution of a National Food Security Council whose members include state governors of Lagos, Delta, Kebbi, Taraba, Plateau and Ebonyi States. The Council, to be ...
The IITA Cassava Weed Management Project and the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Seed System for Cassava (BASICS) project will share results of research in weed management and seeds systems ...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is to establish one agricultural processing mill in each of the four Federal Constituencies making up Akwa Ibom North-West (Ikot Ekpene) Senatorial District as ...
