The event will also create a unique chance for local and international firms to build business relationships with key industry players from across Africa and other parts of the world.

Bloomberg reports that the factory, with a capacity for 1,200 metric tons of tomato paste daily which is targeted at meeting domestic demand, restarted production last week.

“Except we go for well-meaning revolution in agriculture we may not be able to go beyond hoes and cutlasses in years to come. "

Deadline for submission: 28 March 2019

The acting governor added that the state government designed an entrepreneur programme for youths, which will help in grooming them for profitable agribusiness."

The 3-day conference, which holds from 7th to 10th April at the Raw Material Research and Development Council (RMRDC), is expected to gather extension professionals from .....

“Apart from its medicinal properties, some people believe that growing the plant around their home can prevent the invasion of snakes and other reptiles. This belief motivated my team members and I to investigate the insecticidal ability of the plant agai...

The typha grass covers 365sq km of land across six local government areas of the state, thereby limiting farming to only about 40 per cent of the land because it makes flow of water in the affected farmlands impossible.

“We are putting together this event in order to look at what we have done and the gaps and take a lot of learning from some of the stakeholders that are coming in order to move Nigerian seed industry forward. "

“At least 35 percent (3500) of direct beneficiaries will be women and at least 5-10 percent (500-1000) will be People with Disabilities, PWD.

Alhaji Suleiman Umar, the National Programme Manager of Popular Farms Mills in Kano State, says the company is targeting to

Tomato paste production …to sell paste in buckets, drums..