On Thursday, February 2, the governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, launched the Osun Beef (O-Beef) – an animal husbandry initiative which proposed to enable Osun state become the main suppler of rams and cows inNigeria. To fulfil this goal, Governor Aregbesola invited a team of...

In a recent article on technologyandpolicy.org, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and author of The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa outlined eight ways to promote agricultural innovation in Africa. Below is an excerpt from his article which can be found here The first is to...

  Mrs Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo, Speaker of Parliament on Monday opened a five-day meeting of the Joint committee on agriculture, environment, water resources and rural development infrastructure and industrial development of the ECOWAS Parliament in Accra. It is under the theme;...

At the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), scientists have been hard at work and have come up with a healthy seed yam producing technique that promises quality harvests in the next season. The project, supported by the United Kingdom’s Department for International...

As the Federal Government renews focus on the agricultural sector, the Area Controller, South, and Project Director of Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. Rotimi Mathew Agbogun, has called on the Federal Government to speed-up its agricultural development programmes with the aim of...