It is a long history all the way from former President Olusegun Obasanjo presidential policy on cassava to Akin Adesina’s intervention in the cassava sector.

Despite the abundance of cassava roots as essential raw materials for production of ethanol and the government’s import substitution policies, Nigeria produces about six percent of the national need and imports between 300 million...

The Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) is currently in the second phase, which will end in March, 2019. It is operational in five countries – Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi and Uganda and the fund for C:AVA project is provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Backyard farming has been described as vital to supplementing family means of livelihood because it saves scarce resources. It is argued that backyard farming, either livestock or crop production, enables a family to save a greater portion of the income from other sources such as salaries, wages or commissions, and invest such savings in other…

A Prof of Agriculture from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State, Kolawole Adebayo, has descried youths lack of interest in agriculture. 

Kolawole Adebayo spoke at the 2017 annual Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) lecture/exhibition series titled, “Technology innovation and entrepreneurship empowerment.”