Category: Agriculture

Nigeria has overtaken Egypt as the largest rice producer in Africa, according to the Director-General of Africa Rice Centre, Benin Republic, Dr Harold Roy-Macauley. He said that Nigeria is now the largest rice producer at 4 million tonnes a year. Egypt was producing 4.3 tonnes annually but her production has reduced by almost 40 percent […]

Kano-based Amarava Rice Mill says it is targeting to record 500 tonnes of daily production by June, just as it hit 250 tonnes to boost local self-sufficiency. Mr Subhash Chand, the Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Nigeria, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja. The multimillion Naira state-of-the-art rice mill, owned by an Indian national, […]

The Federal Government on Tuesday said there was no truth in the United States Department of Agriculture’s World Markets and Trade Report that claimed that Nigeria imported three million metric tonnes of rice in 2018, which is 400,000 metric tonnes more than the quantity of the product imported in 2017. The Minister of Information and […]

Agriculture and Rural Development minister, Chief Audu Ogbeh has warned that if appropriate measures were not taken to replant after the recent flood mayhem in some States, Nigeria may experience shortage of rice. He gave this warning at the Commissioning of the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) Molecular Facility and the 2018 seed fair and […]

The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, has developed what it called first improved indigenous chicken breed called the ‘FUNAAB Alpha.’ The Vice-chancellor of the institution, Prof. Kolawole Salako, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing journalists about the breakthrough and the presentation of certificate of ‘FUNAAB Alpha’ by the National Centre for Genetics Resources and […]