agriculture
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The National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) says the country makes N14 billion annually from exporting cashew, but there needs to be more focus on processing. Ojo Ajanaku, national president, NCAN, said this on Friday at a media briefing ahead of the 16th edition of the association’s conference in Abuja. The conference is scheduled to…
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France’s personal data protection agency on Wednesday fined US firm Monsanto for illegally compiling files of public figures, journalists and activists with the aim of swaying opinion towards support for its controversial pesticides. The firm, now owned by German chemical giant Bayer, failed to inform the people on the watch lists compiled in the context…
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Crop breeders grow thousands of potential varieties at a time but, until now, observations of key traits were made by hand. In a new study, unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, were used successfully to remotely evaluate and predict soybean maturity timing in tests of potential varieties. The use of drones for this purpose could…
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SMEs, AGRICULTURE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Before the oil boom, agriculture was a major National Income (NI) earner through cash crops such as rubber, palm produce, cocoa and groundnuts. According to Adeyemi & Abiodun (2014), the agricultural sector thrives on SMEs. The two sectors offer over 90% of total jobs in Nigeria, contribute immensely to…
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The get-rich-quick syndrome has changed the way youths see agriculture except in developing countries, even in the so-called underdeveloped areas. It’s a lot different in most developed societies where farmers get financial support from the government. A model in an African country has taking things a bit too far in her bid to market agriculture…
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