People all over the world have been drinking tea for thousands of centuries, and for good reason. Numerous studies have shown that a variety of teas may boost your immune system, fight off inflammation, and even ward off cancer and heart disease. While some brews provide more health advantages than others, there’s plenty of evidence…
Natural phenomena or events that usually cause disastrous damage to human properties and sometimes lead to loss of lives are referred to as natural disasters. Notable among these natural disasters are floods, hurricanes, earth quark, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, oil spillage, pandemics, etc. These disasters when occurred always cause a lot of damage, to individuals, communities,…
Bitter Leaf has Latin name as Andrographis Paniculate Ness and a botanical name as Vernonia amygdalina. This plant is thought to have come from tropical Asia. The plant grows wild in open places such as roadsides, in fields, on vacant land rather damp soil or planted in the garden as a medicinal plant. This plant…
Modern farms and agricultural operations work far differently than those a few decades ago, primarily because of advancements in technology, including sensors, devices, machines, and information technology. By 2050, the world’s population will exceed 9 billion people – a projected growth of more than 30 % and amounting to an estimated 2.3 billion more…
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CPSI) ranks the sweet potato as the No. 1 most nutritional vegetable and rated it significantly higher in nutrients than the Idaho potato, spinach, or broccoli. The sweet potato or sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous…
The major concern for farmers is important loss due to pests and diseases, which is regardless of any production system adopted. Plant pathogens, insects, and weed pests devastate over 40% of all possible sustenance creation every year Pests are organisms which can damage the crops and compete with them. They cause decrease in the plant…
Given meaning that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life. The availability of food irrespective of class, gender or region is another one. Food security is defined as the availability at…
Food and agriculture production systems are facing unprecedented challenges from an increasing demand for food for a growing population, rising hunger and malnutrition, adverse climate change effects, over exploitation of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, and food loss and waste. These challenges can undermine the capacity to meet its food needs now and in…
Ikokore, also known as Ifokore, is a Nigerian Yam Pottage dish made with Water Yam (Isu Ewura) instead of the normal Puna/ White Yam. It is a pottage recipe from the Ijebu people of Ogun state, Nigeria. I’m yet to come across an Ijebu person who doesn’t love Ikokore, almost everybody from ijebu ogun state makes Ikokore a…
Farming System- Scope, Types, Importance An important part of our responsibilities to partners & potential partners is to continue to educate you on the the versatility of Agriculture and why it is of importance. Farming system is an integrated set of activities that farmers perform in their farms under their resources and circumstances…
HAVE YOU MADE A FARMER HAPPY TODAY BY SPONSORING A CASSAVA OPENED FARM? IF NO DIRECT TO OUR FARM SHOP TO GET STARTED HERE. Cassava products are being sort for all over the globe as a source for producing various products and combination of animal feeds. With looming global warming, cassava has been…
In our last topic, we discussed in details Agricultural Investment Opportunities in Nigeria, as agriculture has come to stay because it matters to the future of development, it is more effective than other sectors in reducing poverty and most importantly to improve the livelihood of a booming population. The business Opportunities in Agriculture is…
Wondering if there are investment opportunities in agriculture? However, Nigeria is known to possess riches not only in oil, gas, coal, iron, ore, lead, limestone and zinc but most importantly, it has rich land and water resources that are ripe for agricultural exploitation. Nigeria is blessed with 84 million hectares of arable land, 5.04…
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