Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
By Bukola Adenubi The month of March has ushered in a new President-elect to pilot the affairs of the most populous nation and largest economy in Africa, Nigeria. Prior to this time, the nation has been plagued with naira shortage, scarcity of petroleum products, erratic electricity generation, bad, unmotorable road networks, insecurity and other sundry issues, which directly or indirectly, impede on food security. The massive turnout at the recently-concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections shows the pains and aspirations of the Nigerian people. In all of these and for this new dispensation, I would like to point out the…
By Sodiq Lawal Scores of farmers, under the auspices of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), have congratulated Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on his victory, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as winner of the 2023 presidential election. In a statement signed by AFAN National President, Kabir Ibrahim, described the victory of Tinubu as “the beginning of new epoch in the history of Nigeria.” The farmers said “Bola Ahmed Tinubu marks the beginning of new epoch in the history of Nigeria as he represents ‘renewed hope’ for the prosperity of a richly-endowed nation yearning for an astute administrator,…
By Olamide Tejuoso The National Diploma (ND) admission list for the 2022/2023 academic session of the Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology (OYSCATECH), Igbo-Ora, is out. Over 200 students in and around Oyo State, were offered the agriculture institution’s admission. Meanwhile, the list of successful candidates have been uploaded online via the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), which is available on JAMB website at: www.jamb.org.ng. All candidates, who participated in OYSCATECH’s Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been advised to proceed to check, if their names are on the provisional admission list, to confirm their status…
By Olamide Tejuoso The World Vegetable Centre (WorldVeg), which has its headquarters in Taiwan and five regional offices globally, has called for applications to fill two Agricultural Economics positions in Tanzania and Benin Republic. WorldVeg is a non-profit international centre for vegetable research and development in the world, which is committed to reducing poverty and malnutrition in developing countries through improved production and consumption of vegetables. Interested candidates are encouraged to have a PhD in Agricultural Economics and are to submit a letter of application, explaining their suitability and interest in the position, along with a curriculum vitae and recent passport-size…
By Oludele Taiwo A lecturer in the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Federal University, Lokoja, (FUL), Kogi State, Prof. Mohammed Suleiman, has called for global intensive study in Mycology (Fungi) in all secondary schools, as part of measures to curb global food deprivation. He made the call in his inaugural lecture titled; ‘Pathogenic Fungi and Food Deprivation: The Challenges of Plants Pathologists’, at the university campus in Lokoja. He said fungi, until recently, are highly under-reported, marginalised and totally-ignored in secondary schools to the extent that only plants and animals are being studied, leaving a large number of students ignorant of the whole fungi kingdom. “In fungal/pathology science, we see…
By Oludele Taiwo The Commissioner for Agriculture in Lagos State, Abisola Olusanya, while receiving a report on coconut value chain analysis from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), has pledged to upgrade the development of coconut value chain in the state. She said the report had shed light on policies and investment around the coconut value chain and that the report was aimed at formulating the investment plan necessary to upgrade the coconut value chain in the state. Olusanya noted that the 300-page report seeks to generate coconut planting awareness to ensure its sufficiency in…
By Olamide Tejuoso Have you wondered about the kind of agricultural business that can be ventured into? What are the opportunities and shortcomings? Here are some that can be looked into: 1. Vegetable Farming Vegetable farming is one the most popular and profitable businesses that keeps you busy all round the year. Greens will never be lacking in meals – whether vegetarian population increases or not. There’s always a demand for it, because a lot of people eat veggies. For instance, spinach, lettuce, pumpkin, tomatoes, cabbage, and cucumber, et al, are all vegetables that are consumed in every part of the globe and can…
By Omolola Pedro To enhance the production capacity of women, the International Centre for Environmental Health and Development (ICEHD), has trained more than 100 women farmers on climate-smart agriculture and farming technology in Badagry, Lagos State, FarmingFarmersFarms reports. At the training programme themed, “Farming Technology and Capacity Building Training for Women Farmers”, the Programme Officer of ICEHD, Miss Mercy Joshua, stated that the reason for the training was for women farmers to have the needed skills, resources and opportunities to deal with climate challenges, increase farm production and promote food security. She noted that most women have been economically left…
