Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
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…
By Sodiq Lawal The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, (NiMet), Prof. Mansur Matazu, has assured farmers, experts and others that NiMet would continue to provide accurate services to the nation. Matazu gave this assurance in Lagos when he was awarded the ‘Independent Aviation Icon of the Year’ award. Represented by the Director of Human Resources Management of the agency, Hajiya Rabi Mohammed, he expressed his appreciation to organisers of the award for finding him worthy and disclosed that it would serve as a source of motivation. “We want to appreciate the independent publishers for finding…
By Olamide Tejuoso Asides using robots for weed control, fruit farmers in some countries are now embracing robotics in harvesting their crops, which is termed mechanical picking, in order to boost efficiency. This development is coming to help farmers continue harvesting amid human worker shortage. In Australia, the Federal Government and private investors have collaborated to invest in the development of fruit-picking. Recently, Tasmanian Berry Farm has been in the news, for using robotic harvesters to pick its fruits. The robots are said to be picking the fruits with precision, picking them on the farm according to colour, shape and…
By Olamide Tejuoso In this exclusive interview with the Director of Operations of BIMABEL Farms, Mrs. Bimbo Bello, who works in a farm that specialises in poultry production, but focuses on using organics to raise them naturally in order to encourage healthy eating and living by the people, she spoke to FarmingFarmersFarms on a number of issues pertaining to what organic broiler farming is all about, profitability of the venture, and agriculture in general. Excerpts: What is the concept of organic broiler farming all about? Why do we produce organic chicken; organic broiler to be specific? Organic poultry production is…
