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IRRIGATION

Nigerian Government Rehabilitates 12 Irrigation Systems For Kano State Farmers

To promote all year-round farming, the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has handed over twelve rehabilitated irrigation systems to farmers...

Smart irrigation controllers to see rapid growth in coming years

Smart irrigation has been benefitted with the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), thus pushing the growth of smart irrigation controllers market at a...

Technology and innovation to ignite agricultural transformation

To overcome these challenges in sustainable and transformative ways, there must be consistent investment in innovation, and collaboration that can help boost the sector’s...

Debunking insurance myths

When was the last time you really wanted to buy a policy? People buy insurance begrudgingly and moan when the debit orders hit their bank...

Huge expectations from the State of the Nation Address

Christo van der Rheede, executive director of Agri SA, told Farmer’s Weekly that the only way to guarantee food security in South Africa would be through...

A word of warning for start-up producers

Recently I heard of a proposed project that planned to produce 90t of tilapia annually from a greenhouse-based system in the southern coastal region...

WHAT AFRICA’S IRRIGATION RENAISSANCE MEANS FOR FOOD SECURITY

The situation is exacerbated by the fact that a bulk of food producers in Africa, up to33 million farmers who produce 70 percent of the food,...

Nigerian Government Rehabilitates 12 Irrigation Systems For Kano State Farmers

To promote all year-round farming, the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has handed over twelve rehabilitated irrigation systems to farmers...

Farmers in China planting maize at expense of other crops

Chinese farmers have greatly increased maize plantings this year at the expense of soya bean and other crops, including sorghum and edible beans. This was...

Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa are consistently falling short of their promises

Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists. Many of the schemes...

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