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Thai Borneo Energy Ltd, Thailand,and  Anambra Government are collaborating to attract agricultural investment projects worth up to 400 million dollars to the state. The Managing Director, Anambra State Investment Promotion and Protection Agency (ANSIPPA)Mr Billy Ekwunife made  this known  to the press after a meeting with the business group and others in Awka. Ekwunife stated that the main focus of the investors was massive farming and production of rice and oil oil palm for both  local consumption and for  export. “The state government will provide the land and some other logistics for the investment, while Thai Borneo Energy Ltd will finance the project through their partners, the Bukham Group. Their rice specie is quite different from the rice we have in the country, which will be harvested three times a year. The oil palm tree to be introduced is three times better than what is obtainable in Nigeria,” he said. Ekwunife cited that the investment will create jobs for unemployed

FADAMA has made  plans to send 855 Lagos youths to South Africa for training to get skills in agri-business. The body is collaborating with the National Image Company, the organiser of the on-going Agro-Business youth training and empowerment programme in which over 5700 youths had so far been trained in Lagos State. According to the Lagos State Project Coordinator for FADAMA, Mr. Ajijola Folusho, 15 trained youths who are interested in farming would be selected from each of the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs of Lagos for further training in South Africa and be empowered upon return to Nigeria. Folusho said in a statement that the screening process began last Monday and would be concluded on Friday at the Lagos State FADAMA Coordination Office, Lagos State Agricultural Development Authority Complex, Agege, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. He said the selected participants would be sponsored under the World Bank assisted projects and urged unemployed you

Research has shown that the smell from a live chicken could help protect against malaria. Ethiopian and Swedish scientists found out that malarial mosquitoes tend to avoid chickens and other birds. The experiments, conducted in western Ethiopia, included suspending a live chicken in a cage near a volunteer sleeping under a bed net. According to UN Last year alone malaria killed nearly 400,000 people in Africa. Infection and death rates are declining but health officials are continuing to look for new ways to prevent the spread of the disease. The malaria parasite, which initially hides in the liver before going into the bloodstream, is carried from person to person by mosquitoes when they drink blood. The scientists, whose research was published in the Malaria Journal, concluded that as MOSQUITOES make  use of their sense of smell to locate an animal they can bite there must be something in a chicken’s odour that puts the insects off. Addis Ababa University’s Habte Tekie, who wo

This is a great Agricultural business idea that can turn your waste to a lot of Fortune and fetch you extra money .To produce this fertiliser is very easy. The Rabbit’s urine is put into a 25 litre container and mixed with 500 ml drops of sugar fluid, 240 ml of EM4 (bacterial decomposition), and also add one litre of water of thick rice washing( If you wash broken rice with water,the resulting suspension which is milky suspension is the rice washing ) or 100g of corn starch in one litre of water, corn starch mixture to help feed the micro-organisms..Then seal the container , but the lid is perforated and attached with a hose.In order for the fluid of fertiliser fermentation to remain sterile, the hose is dipped into a bottle filled with water.The fluid of fermented urine should be stirred at least once a week to dissolve evenly and not precipitate.After three weeks,this liquid will change its colour and smell.The colour will change to black, and smells like wine, not urine smell anymo

The Federal Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed has told Nigerians not to panic over the issue of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO). She said presently no genetically modified organisms are officially grown in the country .The Minister stated that, “what we have approval are for field trials”. “All officially approved GMOs in Nigeria are under experimental fields, citing the insect resistant cotton for commercial release will still be subjected to further processes for the next two years, she added. In a statement released by the Minister today in Abuja, she stated that the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), established in 2015, under the Federal Ministry of Environment was charged to among others, ensure proper regulation of modern biotechnological activities and genetically modified organisms so as to protect the lives of Nigerians .According to her, with the Act in place, Nigeria has taken laudable strides in order to adopt the necessary legal biosafety framework and