Agricultural experts have urged Nigerian farmers to embrace the use of data to transform the poultry industry, saying lack of accurate information is hindering farmers from making headway in the business. The experts stated this at the launch of a web-based app designed to keep data on poultry farming. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of […]
There are indications that the country’s average price of poultry feed has risen by at least 168 per cent in the last three years amidst persistent rise in prices of feed ingredients such as maize and soya. New Telegraph gathered that this has resulted to a broiler being sold for between N5,500 and N7,000 as […]
…commences with 55 direct employees The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has blazed yet another trail as the first University in Nigeria to key into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s initiative for the revival of poultry sector in the country, using the universities as vehicle. It was an assemblage of the creme de la creme […]
Following an outbreak of Avian influenza in Niger State with more still expected to follow, the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), the umbrella body of all farmers in the country, has warned that the economy could lose about N100 billion in revenue this year and N2 trillion in poultry investments to the deaths of […]
With the negative impacts of COVID-19 on Nigeria’s agriculture currently manifesting, the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), the umbrella body of poultry farmers in Nigeria, has raised the alarm that scarcity of poultry feeds has hit the sector. TAIWO HASSAN reports Indeed, these are not the best of times for Nigerian farmers because of the […]