Monthly Archives: December 2014

In her bid to ensure the passage of the Biosafety Bill at the Nigeria House of Representative, The Leader of the House has informed her Honourable colleagues that Biotechnology will save Nigeria from being a dumping ground of GMOs. Honourable … Continue reading →

The Nigerian government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), on the application of modern technologies in agriculture for the benefit of farmers in the country. The Minister of Agriculture Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, … Continue reading →

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In an effort to provide Nigeria’s smallholder farmers access to cutting-edge agricultural technologies, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Nairobi, Kenya-based African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF). This is to … Continue reading →

Dr. Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan, Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture Ghana, has advocated to governments in the West African Sub-region to indigenize a legislative law on biotechnology…….

The passage of the national bio-safety bill into law is important for Nigeria to move forward with its agricultural programmes and innovations…..

Accra, April 16, GNA Cowpea is considered the most important food grain legume in the dry savannas of tropical Africa where it is grown on more than 12.5 million hectares of land. Rich in quality protein, it has energy content … Continue reading →

Nigeria is ripe for Genetically Modified (GM) food – MOHAMMED KANDI; People’s Daily. For every laudable evolutionary agricultural discovery in Africa and the globe, Nigeria has either missed out of the pudding completely, or takes a queue from behind, a … Continue reading →

Cowpea, popularly called beans in Nigeria, is one of the country’s important food crops massively destroyed by a pest called pod borer or Maruca, which damage cowpea pods on farm fields thereby causing heavy losses to farmers and reducing cowpea … Continue reading →

Accra , April 14, GNA – Africa needs to embrace technological innovation to enable it produce more to feed its hungry people in the years ahead, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan said Monday.Africa, he said, … Continue reading →