Many African guests at the forum had expressed hope to strengthen cooperation with China in hybrid rice breeding, cultivation and processing.
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Swiss-based foundation, global alliance for improved nutrition (GAIN) on Thursday awarded N4 million equity-free micro grants to two nutritious food vendors in Kaduna.
The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Engineer Joseph Utsev has called on state governments to invest more on irrigation farming in order to boost food security.
The scarcity of sorghum in major grain markets in Kano has been attributed to insecurity in most sorghum-producing states and poor access to improved seed varieties.
Indonesia last Friday flew its first commercial flight using palm oil-blended jet fuel, as the world’s biggest producer of the commodity pushes for wider use of biofuels to cut fuel imports.
The director of Africa Norwegian seafood council, Trond Kostweit said the delisting would boost the Nigerian stockfish sector.
The department of otorhinolaryngology, university of Abuja has been elected chairman of the international advisory board (IAB) of the American academy of otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery foundation (AAOHNSF).
The Deputy Chairman, all farmers association of Nigeria (AFAN), Lagos state chapter, has urged federal and state governments to adopt the Thailand food model in the country.
The sarauniya charity foundation (SCF), has empowered secondary schools in Keffi, Nasarawa State at a health outreach programme
Minister of water resources and sanitation, prof. Joseph Utsev, has called on relevant state governments to provide irrigable land for the 12 river basins across the country for irrigated farming.