How To Start Small Scale Poultry Farm

  Do you want to know how to start  a small scale poultry farm business. If you are wondering how? then here is the solution. 

          This article would give you an insight on how to start the business and how you can grow it successfully.

Top 7 Machinery Stories from 2015

With lower commodity prices, it’s no surprise that farmers aren’t snatching up the newest equipment quite as rapidly as they have for the past few years. While it’s not unexpected, this decline in equipment sales has had ripple effects across the ag industry.
Equipment manufacturer earnings are down this year, which has led to layoffs. This isn’t a great environment to launch new products, so there haven’t been quite as many product introductions. The used market is filled with late-model, low-hour equipment, causing prices to drop to decade lows. The major OEMs have introduced certified pre-owned programs to deal with this glut of equipment. Consolidation hasn’t been quite as prevalent in the equipment industry as it has been in the chemical and seed business, but there were some acquisitions

Farm Officers at Ekigee Productions and Farms Limited

agricltural firm Ekigee Productions and Farms Limited, is a modern integrated and fully automated farm located in Ado-Kasa in Nassarawa State providing edible eggs, chicken meat, fish and other agricultural produce to meet your daily needs.

Firm to Create 4000 Jobs with $100 Million - Pearl Universal Impex Limited

 Pearl Universal Impex Limited, an Indian Company, has invested over $100 million in rice farming in Niger State. The investment is expected to create over 4000 direct jobs once the 7500 hectares acquired under lease from the State Government is completely put under use for both rain and dry season rice cultivation.

Banking Sector Plans Fresh N300b Agricultre Financing For 2016

A new window of opportunities may have been opened up in the nation’s agriculture sector, with a pledge of ₦300 billion fresh financing of the economic segment and its value chains in 2016 by the Bankers’ Committee.

Besides, the earlier plans by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to create about one million jobs through small businesses’ development and support by lending at “ridiculously” lower interest rate to graduates got the nod of the committee.

Jatropha oil uses as an alternative to diesel fuel

Jatropha oil uses
  

Jatropha oil is also a kind of vegetable oil that is produced from the seeds of jatropha that has the capacity to grow in marginal and common lands.

Don Proffers Solution To Post-harvest Losses

A don with the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Prof. (Mrs.) Zinash Delebo Osunde, has suggested measures to avoid post-harvest losses by farmers and promote  employment generation.

Sokoto Farmers Get N1.5bn Govt Support

Ankeli Emmanuel

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Sokoto State government is to assist 20, 000 local farmers with both farm implements and other inputs worth N1.5billion, commissioner for Agriculture, Nagwari Tambuwal disclosed, yesterday.
Making the disclosure at the Government House, Sokoto shortly after the State Executive Council meeting, Nagwari noted that, the money will be used to purchase 150 trucks of fertilizer, (NPK/UREA), and water pump, among others.

New knowledge-sharing initiative to measure and reduce food loss and waste

Responds to call by G20 agriculture ministers to tackle this global problem

Rotten food in a market place: one third of global food is wasted annually.

4 December 2015, Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR research program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) today launched a new initiative to enhance global cooperation on measuring and reducing food loss and waste. The G20 agriculture ministers requested FAO and IFPRI to launch this initiative in Istanbul, Turkey, this past May.

Climate change and your food: Ten facts

What a warming worlds means for agriculture and feeding the planet

Here are ten facts about how a change climate affects our ability to grow food and feed ourselves.

Help spread the word about the implications of climate change for global food security: Select a fact, and then the pop-up Twitter icon that appears to tweet it. We've bolded a few tweetable tidbits as suggestions for you.