THE meat inspection process is worse than it was decades ago due to decentralisation, lack of training, recruitment and facilitation of meat inspectors and consumer attitude to meat quality.
OVER sh239b has been earmarked for rural development for the 2008/09 financial year. This is contained in the national budget framework paper 2008/09, prepared by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
PREPARATIONS for this year's winter wheat programme are at an advanced stage with some farmers carrying out final land preparation while others are calling for Zesa to ensure uninterrupted power supplies or to provide a load-shedding schedule to avoid interruption
THE Reserve Bank Zimbabwe has released US$14 million to fertilizer companies for importation of raw materials ahead of the winter wheat season, Agriculture Minister Rugare Gumbo has said.
Kano State Commissioner for Agriculture has said that there is apparent over production of tomato this year by Kano farmers owing to lack of processing plants in the state.
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has given local producers of vegetable oil a two week ultimatum to desist from using animal fat to produce edible vegetable oil or have their companies shut.
Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr Abba Ruma, said yesterday that Nigeria required N950 billion to revive the agricultural sector in the next four years.
As the current global food crisis threatens to compound the poverty and hunger situation, Nigerians have urged governments at all levels to take immediate action to check the situation.
Today, Food Culinary Tourism has assumed a global dimension. It has become a new niche in Tourism constituting an indispensable consequence in Travel and Destination Marketing.
Country director ActionAid Sierra Leone Tuesday said there was need for the country to reduce the importation of foodstuffs, especially rice, which is the country's staple food.
JEAN Ziegler, a UN "Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food," spoke out against U.S. and European Union energy and trade policies and said these policies are tantamount to going down a "criminal path."
Mozambique hopes to cope with rising international oil and food prices through increased agricultural production, declared the Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuereneia, on Wednesday.
The country is facing high food prices and in some parts, the citizens are about to starve. This is partly because food production has been low, failing to match demand. This food shortage is also an international problem which has
As the world struggles to ease soaring prices of cereals, the Africa Rice Centre, Warda, has announced short-term comprehensive strategies to boost rice production.
Farmscape for May 1, 2008 (Episode 2833) The University of Guelph is cautioning consumers to expect higher prices for everything from corn flakes to pork chops in the coming months. Increased cost and reduced availability of food around the world,
With Congress bearing down on yet another farm bill deadline, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley said early this week there are some items included in the latest Senate proposal that would close loopholes and offset some of the spending items included
