Mrs. Gladys Asmah, Minister for Fisheries has announced that the Ministry of Fisheries is to contract a 40 million US dollar loan from Chinese Government to begin a 2,000 hectare fish farming project on River Pra at Shama in the
President Jammeh has vowed to keep the country's agriculture under his watchful eyes, saying that he would never assign the Cabinet portfolio to anyone, owing to the degeneration that had smirched the state department.
Stakeholders in the dairy sector in Cameroon met in Yaounde last Friday under the guidance of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries to work out a strategy to step up dairy production with particular focus on milk.
One of the principal the first challenge for Cameroon is to produce more food. Yes, more food to feed its people at the time demand is fast outweighing supply and foreign partners on whom the country had hitherto depended are
The rural water project initiative, which resulted from the long-term bilateral co-operation between the governments of the Gambia and Japan, has been taking pace in the rural areas, especially in areas around of the Lower River Region, most notably, in
The ministry of agriculture, forestry and food security and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) last week certified 1,025 farmers from the farmer field schools in three chiefdoms within Bo district.
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas on Friday, 9th May 2008 called for Israeli assistance in ensuring the efficient management of the region's water resources so that it could be better utilized to boost agricultural productivity.
The truth is that if the The truth is that if the private sector must really be the engine of growth and also complement the efforts of the public sector in the realisation of its developmental goals, the operating environment
INTERNATIONAL Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), a body representing 168 million workers in 155 countries of the world including Nigeria, has called on industrialised countries and governments to provide emergency grants and loans to developing countries to enable them offset the
THE Action Congress (AC) has admonished the Federal Government to go beyond a short-term approach to the world food crisis by capitalising on it to give a boost to the country's agricultural sector and make Nigeria self sufficient in food
Alh. Abubakar Wodi is the president of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria. A high profile farmer, Wodi lives in Gwagwalada. Our Correspondent had a brief chat with him at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, where he was involved in
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal threatens to sue the FAO, accused of deducting 20 per cent of the aid funds collected on behalf of the African countries confronted with food crisis.
A new major partnership where smallholder farmers and small agricultural enterprises will be helped with financing to build viable businesses has been been launched.
Despite increased production of foodstuffs in Rwanda, the urban population is faced with soaring prices partly fueled by chaos in the internal distribution management.
The Uganda government will import breeds of dairy cattle from either Canada or Australia to help boost a dairy sub-sector that needs more raw milk than ever before following a turn around that Sameer Agriculture & Livestock Ltd has engineered
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole has thrown his weight behind measures by the Federal Government to tackle the global food crisis as it affects the nation.
Kwara State Govern-ment has said it would be ready to work with any private agricultural organisation as a way of addressing the current global food crisis in the state.
Chief Research Officer, National Cereal Research Institute (NCRI), Birnin Kebbi, Mr Ayodele Christopher Uwala, has said the Federal Government order of massive importation of rice is dangerous to the economy.
