The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has said it will empower 16 million farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to become globally competitive using the best technology

Professionals, dons and experts in biotechnology, yesterday, stressed the need for humanity to embrace biotechnological innovations, saying it will help to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Director of C. G. Bhakta Institute of Biotechnology at the Uka Tarsadia University, India, Professor R. Krishnamurthy, has said that a new variety of rice being cultivated at the University of Ilorin that does not require soil with water holding capacity is capable is solving the current rice production challenges in the country. Rice…

For agriculture to be worthwhile, Biotechnology must be employed rather than reliance on crude techniques that do not confront present day challenges in agriculture. This was the submission of stakeholders at the South West Zonal Sensitisation Workshop on Biotechnology and Biosafety, held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, with the theme: “Agricultural Biotechnology:…

Compared to smallpox or typhoid, malaria is proving one of the most challenging human diseases to eradicate -- and so remains a real and constant danger to nearly half the world's population.

The Federal Government has announced plans to improve the country’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP) via biotechnology (the use of biological processes in industrial production).

The “Tuta Absoluta” scourge, otherwise known as “tomato Ebola”, which has severely attacked tomato production in Nigeria in recent months has shown, yet again, how vulnerable the country’s food security...