If you regularly eat bread or noodles, then that means you are dependent on wheat as an important staple in your diet. Interestingly, this doesn’t … [Read more...]

You can’t talk about watermelon farming without going down memory lane. Over 4000 years ago, these football sized fruits began appearing in Ancient … [Read more...]

Poultry farming is quite popular in Nigeria. However, when most people think of poultry, the default birds that come to mind are chicken and turkey. … [Read more...]

A lot of farming enthusiasts don’t really know much about ostrich farming yet it is a very lucrative farming venture. For instance, the quantity of … [Read more...]

One of the lucrative businesses in the livestock cadre is duck farming. However, duck farming isn’t so popular due to the taboos and myths associated … [Read more...]

Currently, Nigeria is the eighth largest producer of Irish potatoes in Africa. The yield per year is about 843,000 tonnes however the potato … [Read more...]

When you consider the fact that Nigeria is the second largest consumer of sugar in Africa, then you’d know that the market for sugarcane farming can … [Read more...]

Cucumber is very popular in Nigeria. It is a green vegetable with a tender skin that is consumed by virtually every tribe in the country. Cucumber … [Read more...]

Sesame seeds are one of the highly sought after cash crops in Nigeria. It is second to cocoa in terms of export value. In fact 90% of the sesame seed … [Read more...]

In recent times, a lot of Nigerians both young and old are beginning to dump their white collar jobs in order to take up farming. Unfortunately, many … [Read more...]

Organic foods seem to be the trend in recent times. However, it isn’t just a trend; it has been proposed by many experts as the future of agriculture. … [Read more...]

Fadama is simply the Hausa word for irrigable land. The Fadama National Project is an initiative funded by the World Bank and it began in 1993. The … [Read more...]