By Adewale Kupoluyi Prof. Olusegun Folorunso of the Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State, Nigeria, has been appointed as Chairman, Technical Board of FarmingFarmersFarms, an online newspaper that focuses on agriculture, environment, and entrepreneurship. Technical board members are saddled with the responsibility of ensuring that the publication is of high standards, raise funds for operations and expansion, and develop comprehensive editorial policy for the newspaper, among others. FarmingFarmersFarms is a young online newspaper, published by Media and Educational Consult, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The motto is … to empower and live well. The vision is, to make life worthy of…
Patrick Jonathan Chisale at his farm in Welemu Village in Malawi’s Southern District of Thyolo “Yes, I am blind, but when I’m working on the farm, I do not think of myself as such”, said Patrick Jonathan Chisale, a farmer from the Welemu Village in Malawi’s Southern District of Thyolo. The 52-year-old had been farming before 2000, when he became blind. And he never allowed his condition to stop him. “Before I became blind, I loved farming. This is why even after becoming blind, I wanted to continue doing what I loved, and I also wanted to make my family…