Tapping opportunities in Nigeria for high-end agricultural research

Dr Peter Carberry, Director General, ICRISAT (center), in traditional attire offered by elders of Gwarmai village with Smart Food Ambassadors and Dr Hakeem Ajeigbe, ICRISAT Country Representative for Nigeria. Photo: ICRISAT

Tapping opportunities in Nigeria for high-end agricultural research

27 May 2019

Dr Peter Carberry, Director General, ICRISAT, recently interacted with an inspirational women’s group involved in processing sorghum and groundnut into a range...

Groundnut shelling machines for increased productivity in Mali

26 Apr 2019

Increasing productivity and incomes of smallholder groundnut farmers is the goal of the project, Increasing Groundnut Productivity of Smallholder Farmers in Ghana,...

Dr Ajeigbe explains the use of stalk chopper for improved crop residue utilization. Photo: ICRISAT

Sorghum improvement collaboration earns community appreciation in Nigeria

22 Mar 2019

The Kambuwa community in Nigeria’s Kebbi state honored representatives of Nigeria Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program – Phase 1 (ATASP-1) and its...

A demonstration on mixing sorghum flour into cake batter in Adani-Omor Staple Crop Processing Zone (SCPZ) South-Eastern Nigeria.

Women and youth in Nigeria turn to sorghum processing for better incomes

11 Jan 2019

Over 300 women and youth in Nigeria discovered recently that the humble, environment-friendly sorghum can be made into delicious products and, in...

Pop sorghum, doughnuts and hammer mills: Nigerian teens see the fun side of agriculture

04 Jan 2019

If the teenagers studying in a secondary school in Nigeria ever thought that agriculture was not ‘a teen thing’, they were in...

Ms Noba Francalini, owner of Epam Seeds Company, and farmer Nappon Iassane from Leo Village, Sissili Province in southern Burkina Faso, engaged in seed multiplication of improved cowpea and groundnut variety. Photo: N Mishra, ICRISAT

Legumes beckon, children of soil return to roots in Africa

02 Nov 2018

It was a gamble that 30-year-old Fuseini Zaanyeya realizes was worth taking. For, quality healthcare and primary education are well within reach...

Dr Vabi explaining the working of motorized groundnut thresher to Chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh, Federal Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria, and Dr Philip Ojo, Director General of NASC.

Nigerian Agriculture Minister endorses groundnut thresher

26 Oct 2018

A motorized groundnut thresher is reducing drudgery for women farmers in rural Nigeria. Introduced in 2015, over 50 threshers have already been...

Synergies between USAID and TL III leading to the registration and release of three groundnut varieties in Nigeria in 2018. Photo: VB Michael

Two to tango: How groundnut production in Nigeria is thriving on synergy

08 Oct 2018

Groundnut farmers in Nigeria have benefited immensely through collaboration between two major projects. This has helped promote improved groundnut varieties and strengthen...

Farmers with the SAMSORG 47 ZAUNA INUWA variety

Three sorghum varieties released in Nigeria

17 Aug 2018

Nigeria’s National Committee on Variety Naming, Registration and Release on 26 July 2018, approved the registration and release of two medium-maturing sorghum varieties, SAMSORG 47 as ZAUNA-INUWA, SAMSORG 48 as KAURA BORNU, and an early medium-maturing variety, SAMSORG 49 as CF35:5, in Nigeria.

Empowered women and an enriched community – the groundnut story of northern Nigeria

18 Jul 2018

Mrs Hadja Talatu Idrissa of Bunkure, near Kano, Nigeria, is the leader of a 25-women group in groundnut production and processing. They...

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