Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
Botswana plans to launch its first satellite, BOT SAT-1, in 2023, a project hosted by the Botswana International University of Science and Technology. While addressing Botswana parliament in the annual State of the Nation Address, Botswana’s President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, revealed these plans, noting that the country’s premier satellite will allow “Water resource management, industrial development, environmental management, food security, land management and sustainable agriculture. The Bot-SAT-1 will bring Botswana into the global satellite ecosystem for research and development in a variety 32 of disciplines”, he explained.The satellite will elevate Botswana as a knowledge-based economy that can generate real-time information from…
The Federal Government, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development-Value Chain Development Programme, has distributed rice farm inputs worth more than N25m to farmers in Enugu. The inputs were distributed during the beginning of the Agency’s 2022/2023 dry season agro-input distribution at the IFAD/VCDP office in Enugu. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the items include bags of rice seeds, bags of NPK fertilisers, bags of Indorama Urea fertilisers, herbicides of selective and non-selective brands. Others are, rice planters and harvesters, de-stoning machines, water pumps, rice milling machines, cassava processing machinesAddressing the farmers, the National Programme Coordinator, Dr. Fatima Aliyu, said the programme…
