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It is about one year that a new management team was dispatched to revive the ailing Okitipupa Oil Palm (OOPC) Plc., Ondo State. The new Chief Executive Officer, Taiwo Adewole spoke with GBENGA AKINFENWA on the recovery efforts so far. How have you fared in the last one-year you came on board? IT has been…

Intermittently, cassava producers in Nigeria express frustration and lamentation over inability to sell their fresh cassava roots. Head, Agro-Economy, FEMI IBIROGBA writes on ways the farmers can sell their cassava roots profitably. Every three or three years, industry specialists have observed, the price of fresh cassava root crashes, bringing financial losses to farmers. This intermittently…

Food and Beverage West Africa, a new international food and drinks trade exhibition in Lagos, will create new opportunities for local businesses. Owners and people working across the food retail, distribution, catering and hospitality sectors will meet with representatives from more than 150 companies from 20 countries at the show, which opens from June 18…

Youth Advocates Nigeria, a social welfare and advocacy movement for young people, has reiterated that agriculture is able to increase employment rate by 70 per cent rate in Nigeria if managed well. In a seminar that brought young farmers around the country together in Ibadan, an expert and president of the advocate group, Tolulope Aina,…

The immediate past governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, has commended Governor Ben Ayade for his efforts towards industrialising the state, stressing that the establishment of Africa’s first vitaminised rice mill in Ogoja is a phenomenal project.    Imoke, who accompanied his successor to inspect the installation of equipment at the rice mill,…

The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) is to distribute farm inputs to 98,400 households to ensure food sufficiency in insurgency-affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. It also disclosed that the overall impact of conflict on agriculture was estimated at $3.7 billion (N1.332 trillion). The inputs, which include crop seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, are being…

Liuba Negru of the Country Support and Communications, World Health Organistion (WHO) Regional Office for Europe and Stephanie Brickman, Communications Consultant, WHO Regional Office for Europe released a bombshell as the world celebrated food safety day on Friday, June 7, 2019. The startling report, entitled, ‘The burden of foodborne diseases in the WHO European Region,’…

We have proven technologies and evidence-based facts that Nigeria should keep to maximum of 10 per cent inclusion of high quality cassava flour (HQCF) in wheat flour for bread making and other confectionaries. This alone can give the country 300,000 tonnes of cassava flour annually. It is more than enough for the industries. The good…

The major glut that hit the cashew industry has plunged revenue from the cash crop, running into several billions of naira, a development considered as a big blow to farmers, exporters and other stakeholders in the cashew value-chain.

Agriculture has been identified as the sector to reverse the growing unemployment in the country.This was disclosed by the Chief Executive Officer, AgroNigeria, Barr. Richard-Mark...

The Director, Institute for Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Obafemi Awolowo University, Ibadan, Oyo State, Prof. James Adediran has called for the country’s return to agriculture, to boost its economy. Adediran disclosed this during his Keynote Address at the 5th Annual In-House Review Meeting of the Institute of Food Security, Environmental Resources and Agricultural Research (IFSERAR),…

Experts have linked poverty to derailment from the 2003 Maputo declaration on agriculture and food security, where it was unanimously agreed to allocate 10 per cent of annual budgets to the sector across African countries.