Farmscape for April 4, 2008 (Episode 2801) The Saskatchewan Pork Development Board is calling on government to remove the caps on agricultural support programs designed to help livestock producers contend with the economic crisis currently affecting their industry. With losses
Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ebonyi State, Dr Emmanuel Echiegu, said yesterday that rice production in the state was still below 1.7 tonnes per hectare.
District councils have failed to spearhead agriculture despite that it is the backbone of the country's economy, employing about 80 per cent of the 38 million populations.
NamWater has announced that the construction of a second plant to desalinate salty seawater for domestic and industrial use in a project worth over a billion Namibian dollars in the Erongo region will commence in October.
The minister of agriculture and water resources, Dr. Abba Sayyadi Ruma, yesterday stated that adequate funding and technical assistance to rural farmers in Africa would serve as a catalyst for economic growth.
Commercialising agriculture is a sure way of transforming lives, particularly those of rural people, President Yoweri Museveni has said. He said this would enable every household to earn an income.
Rwanda is now proudly the thirteenth member of RANET, that dynamic international initiative which makes available information relating to weather and climate to the populations of subscriber countries.
THE growing regional demand, rising crude oil prices and the heavy rains that have hindered supply, have pushed up the prices of foodstuffs in Kampala's major markets.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is expected to probe the purchase of tractors and other implements worth millions of naira by former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Ibtahim Sanimu Turaki's administration, the state commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Nasidi
I Know that a lot of people are scared to come to the north because of the floods that have devastated many villages and displaced thousands of people.
The Rundu Town Council says it is disturbed by farming activities being conducted within the town, despite such practices being prohibited in local authority areas.
Gave him back to the dirt from which he came. Earlier his family and neighbors walk by, Looking at memories of a simple man's life. A table of photos, toy tractors and cards, Telling the story of life on the
DES MOINES --- After more than two years of discussion, the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission (EPC) voted this past week to limit the application of manure on land going into soybean production.
Iowa Farmer Today The increased price of glyphosate for the upcoming growing season could provide an economic incentive for farmers to use a pre-emerge residual herbicide.
