The decision by Agriculture Minister William Ruto to freeze all sugar export licenses was long overdue and in the true interests of the suffering consumers.
The eviction of pastoralists in the mid western district of Buliisa has commenced, Daily Monitor has learnt. Buliisa RDC Ms Florence Beyunga said pastoralists occupying natural reserves have already been given marching orders.
The 2007/08 crop, planted in November 2007, with harvest completed by May 2008 is forecast at 5.5 million tons, down 0.3 million or 5 percent from last year. Foreign Agricultural Service agricultural analysts from Washington, DC and New Delhi traveled
Farm workers in Limpopo, who have been enduring long winter nights in drafty mud-houses, have received four bed-roomed houses from the provincial government and their employer.
An alarm was sounded at the Pan African Parliament (PAP) over the global food crisis last week when a member asked the regional assembly to find lasting solutions to the challenge of food poverty in the continent.
Home to about 1.1 million people, Karamoja in northeastern Uganda is a harsh, semi-arid region largely inhabited by agro-pastoralists, with the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the country, and the lowest life expectancy.
A government decision to ban rice exports to cushion Madagascar against spiralling global food prices will bring temporary relief, but observers say the island's goal of food self-sufficiency will remain a pipedream unless underlying problems are dealt with.
National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), in collaboration with CropLife Nigeria has organised a sensitisation workshop for farmers, agricultural extension workers and other stakeholders on safe and responsible use of agro-chemicals in beans and other grains storage
As West African states join the rest of the world to battle the current food crisis, the speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) parliament, Mahamane Ousmane, has come hard on governments of all the member states
Katsina State Government has purchased 15,000 metric tones of fertiliser worth N1,540,200,000.00 billion for sale to the farmers at a subsidised price of N1,500.00 per bag.
South Korean farmers in collaboration with the Niger state Government have concluded arrangements to invest $2.5 million on rice production in the state. The permanent secretary Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Health, Engr. Abdullahi Aliyu, disclosed this in Minna yesterday
Succour has now come the way of farmers in the Federal Capital Territory as they not only have to get fertiliser at highly subsidised rates, but have a better distributing network to ensure that each of them gets required quantities.
Agriculture minister, Sir, permit me to use this medium to reach you. With the much hyped food crisis, one imagines that you are so busy that you may not have time to read from commoners like myself. However, I trust
Following the improved enrolment, rentention and performance of pupils in the Federal Capital Territory schools due to the 'Home Grown School Feeding and Health programme, (HGSFHP) introduced by the federal governement, the FCT Universal Basic Education (UBE) has reitarated its
IN reacting promptly to our editorial of Friday May 2 2008 (Food Crisis - FG's N80b Deafness) by canceling the planned expenditure of N80 billion on importation of rice, the Federal Government agreed with our position that it should invest
Stakeholders in the agricultural sub-sector of the nation's economy has concluded plans to brainstorm on how to boost agricultural productivity in the country.
