The team over at CDnet was kind enough to give me an opportunity to do write-up on agriculture. CDnet is a portal for career explorers – every secondary school student, post secondary student, graduate, mid-career worker, job seeker, business owner etc who is thinking about what to do next or which direction to head for […]
One third of humanity is fed through an estimated 500 million smallholder farms with less than two hectares of land. In Asia and sub-Saharan Africa the dependence is even higher, where small farms produce about 80% of the food consumed. These holdings are typically managed by families with limited technical and mechanical support and with […]
Ok so while I was at the expo I saw these tractors and I was inspired….. so I had a mini tractor photo shoot… 🙂 click on the pictures to enlarge them….The climb…Almost there….I made it….woop woop!!! 🙂It’s like I’m on top of the world 🙂 Climbing…. ok now….I’m about to start cruising…You know this […]
The team headed down to the Eko Expo 2013 and I tagged along on Thursday! The event was organised by the Lagos state government in collaboration with the Lekki Free Zone Development Company. The fair is expected to help further promote investment opportunities available at the zone, as well as provide platform for operators in […]
Click on pictures to enlarge Mrs Lawal (Head of Communications), Mr Ogunyinka (State Project Coordinator) and your truly 🙂 The staff at the Commercial Agriculture Development Project (CADP) stepped away from their desks last Wednesday, September 18th, to host and take part in the Media Interactive Session/Product showcase. This was a well attended event with […]
The team and I headed down to the Rice Farms to see how our farmers were getting along with their harvest. We visited the farm in Itoikin, where mechanized farming is practiced. Below are pictures from the field trip. Click on the pictures to enlarge… Thanks for stopping by 🙂
One of the online magazines I enjoy reading is ‘This is Africa’, you can check them out here I read an interesting article titled ‘Spreading the Wealth’ and figured I’d share some facts that I thought were interesting. Agriculture growth is one of the most effective ways to support the livelihoods of the poorest. Most […]
Update – Deadline has been moved to the 31st of January…3rd change… YouWin opened on the 25th of November and will be closing on the 27th of December. All the best. YouWiN – Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria – is an innovative business plan competition, by the federal government of Nigeria, aimed at job […]
FG of Nigeria Fine-tunes Cassava Bread Fund to Check Wheat Importation Advanced stages have been reached in the preparation of the cassava bread fund, which is expected to reduce the nation’s dependence on the importation of wheat for the making of bread and other confectionaries Nigeria currently spends about ₦635 billion annually on wheat importation. […]
It’s harvest time :-). Ofada is a generic name used to describe all rice produced and processed in the rice producing clusters of south-west Nigeria. The short grain robust rice, believed to be OS6 and ITA 150 varieties, is named after Ofada, a small rural community in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. […]
