Heifer to boost agriculture in Nigeria with $3.5m funding

Click Here For Different Hot Offers Daily   Heifer International, an organization devoted to funding international developments. This week, the organization announced it will be working in Nigeria, and other countries to boost their agricultural infrastructure development. The organization has already disbursed $1 million for financing in the sector. The additional money will be used […]

Africa’s low agricultural yield worries minister

Click Here For Different Hot Offers Daily Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has expressed concern over the low content of science and technology in agricultural practice in Africa, saying this remains responsible for its low productivity, yield and inability to compete globally. In his speech at a national stakeholders’ sensitisation and […]

Technologies: Transforming maize breeding and production in Africa

Click Here For Different Hot Offers Daily Scientists part of the Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) and the Maize Lethal Necrosis Gene Editing projects are leveraging innovative technologies to transform seed production systems and speed up the delivery of disease resistance in elite new hybrids. This research is helping smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa […]