By Kay Ledbetter A newly developed fertilizer system will provide nutrition to engineered cotton crops worldwide and a deadly dose…
Browsing: Food & Agriculture
The Government of Ethiopia is the latest African country to authorize cultivation of biotech crops by granting two landmark approvals for environmental…
By Marion Nestle The FDA has concluded its “consultation process” on Golden Rice. This, you may recall, is rice bioengineered to contain genes…
Indian farmers on Friday embarked on a 10-day nationwide strike, demanding better prices of produce, complete loan waiver, and payouts…
An incredible 155 million children around the world are chronically undernourished, despite dramatic improvements in recent decades. In view of this, the…
The Federal Government says it is targeting the production of eight million tonnes of paddy by rice farmers across the…
The World Bank has said that it was working on a Central Pivot System (CPS) in Lagos under the FADAMA…
The Chief Executive Officer and Country Manager of Dizengoff West Africa (Nigeria) Ltd., Ritvonen Antti, has said that Nigeria was…
By Mark Lynas The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Golden Rice, marking the third positive international…
The Federal Government in conjunction with the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)…