By Tukeni Obasi In recent times, there has been a paradigm shift in the conceptualisation of agricultural education in Nigeria. It has become all clear that the current habit of releasing agricultural graduates into the labour market with no practical skills to thrive in existing enterprises...

By Tukeni Obasi The flood incidences that plagued our country several weeks ago resulting in a national disaster have been difficult to forget. For many who saw their means of livelihood washed away as they tried to keep their very lives afloat, the memories will be around for a while....

By Tukeni Obasi Several weeks ago, the World Bank released an 85-page report entitled “Africa Can Help Feed Africa”, expressing hope in the continent’s ability to attain self-sufficiency and making recommendations on how to effectively unlock Africa’s agricultural potential. To this...

By Tukeni Obasi Last week on this column, I shed some light on the rice revolution and the part Dominion Farms, an Oklahoma-based farming company, is playing to build Africa’s largest rice farm in collaboration with Nigeria’s Ministry of Agriculture. News like this has, however, been...

By Tukeni Obasi The rice value chain is one of the eight value chains targeted for transformation and full-scale exploitation under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA). This is because rice is produced all across the north and south of the country, and yet Nigeria imports about...