By Abdallah el-Kurebe ‘The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has appointed Dr Jean Baptiste De La Salle Tignegre as the new manager of the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea (PBR) project being implemented in Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso. A Burkinabé, Tignegre who replaces Dr Issoufou Kolo that retired last December, joined AATF on August 1, ...

ASHENEWS – JUNE 8, 2022: The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) has said that the TELA maize variety currently undergoing National Performance Trial in Nigeria is a high impact yielding variety that Nigeria needs to overcome its national maize deficiency. TELA maize is a genetically modified variety engineered to resist fall armyworm, stern borer, and ...

The International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC), has announced that its 19th International Triennial Symposium will hold between November 21 and 25, 2022. This is contained in a statement by the president, Professor Sanni Lateef made available to ASHENEWS on Monday. According to him, the symposium will be co-hosted by the African Agricultural Technology ...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar has said that the rising waves of anti-technologists in the country against the introduction of agricultural technologies can be effectively eliminated with the continuous presentation of factual and reliable information to demystify the subject matter. The Minister said while receiving the visiting Executive Director of ...

The Executive Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri has said Nigeria could unearth the enormous potentials tied to agriculture with the adoption and right application of agricultural Biotechnology. The Governor stated this while declaring open, the media, farmers, and extension agents retreat on modern biotechnology for the northeast region held in Yola Gov. Fintiri who ...

Nigerian government has granted environmental approval for evaluation and open cultivation of TELA maize, a new variety developed by researchers at the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria that resists fall armyworm, stem borers, and tolerate moderate drought. The decision is contained in a certificate issued to IAR by the ...

…Resistant to fall armyworm (FAW), stem borer, drought Nigerian government has intensified efforts to avail smallholder farmers in the country, with maize variety that combines drought tolerance, insect resistance, and other important yield and disease resistant traits, to enhance food security have started yielding positive results. Scientists at the Institute for Agricultural Research, IAR, Ahmadu ...

African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has championed the facilitation of access and delivery of quality and affordable agricultural technologies to African smallholder farmers that significantly enhance productivity and improve their incomes, the Executive Director, Dr Canisius Kanangire has said. Dr Kanangire made the observation in a presentation to the 2021 Food, Agriculture, Natural Resources Policy ...

African experts have expressed the need for national governments and regional bodies to adopt effective policies and technology-driven interventions to reduce post-harvest losses stifling food security in the region. This was the concluding call by a panel of experts who spoke during a webinar on ‘Accelerating Access to Post-Harvest Management Technologies for Enhanced Food Security ...

…The adoption of improved agricultural technologies and innovations key to enhancing productivity and livelihood of farmers Establishing an enabling environment with appropriate policies, regulations, institutions, and markets to drive the adoption of innovations is key to building agricultural resilience in Africa, said Dr. Canisius Kanangire, the Executive Director of AATF during the 11th African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) ...