Food Security

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Abia South Senatorial District, Erondu Uchenna Erondu Jnr, has unveiled designated distribution centres for the planned distribution of 2,000 bags of 50kg fertiliser to farmers across the…

Rural women farmers in Ikputu Nsulu, Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia State, have embraced compost and biochar technologies as part of efforts to promote sustainable agriculture, improve soil fertility, and enhance food…

Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), in collaboration with the Science and Technical Committee of the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology (NIFST) and the Hope for Farmers Women and Girls Initiative…

The Deputy Dean, College of Agricultural Economics, Rural Sociology and Extension, (CAERSE), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State, Dr. Blessing Ada Ahamefule, has advocated for sustainable agriculture and…

The College of Agricultural Economics, Rural Sociology and Extension (CAERSE), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), has held its maiden International Conference, highlighting the urgent need to enhance food security in…

Nigeria and Brazil have signed the commercial phase of the 1.1 billion dollars Green Imperative Project (GIP) to boost agriculture productivity and enhance private-sector investment in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports…

An agricultural expert, Prof. Mabel Ifeoma Onwuka has charged Nigerian women to embrace home-garden to cope with the increasing cost of living. The Director, Centre for Gender Youth and Child Development (CGYCD), Michael Okpara…

The need to reduce global warming; majorly caused by enteric methane gas emissions, improve livestock productivity among small-holder farmers and formulation of least cost rations that meet basic requirements of animals, among others, have…

In a bid to alleviate the sufferings of farmers and boost food production in Abia state and Nigeria at large, the lawmaker representing Obingwa-West State constituency in Abia State House of Assembly (ABHA), Erondu Uchenna Erondu Jnr has…

Following the need to eradicate hardship in Niger Delta region, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has expressed its readiness to partner with an indigenous cassava starch manufacturing factory in Sagbama Local Government Area of…