Oil palm production is one of the economic activities in the rainforest areas of Nigeria. Though farmers and oil palm producers testify to progress in the methods of planting and production they complain of lack of proper coordination and support by the government. In this interview with our man, JOHNSON OYEYEMI, Mr. Emmanuel Iku-o-penikan, farmer…
He is into this type of farming by choice. There is no doubt that he has a passion for it. And for you to know that all you need do is to listen to him talk about the procedures, the types of snail, the byproducts of his animals and the gains therefrom. For someone who…
Pa Folajimi Israel Akinsulure is from Idanre town, in Idanre local government area of Ondo State. He attended Saint George’s Primary School, Idale, Idanre, after which he proceeded to the Anglican Modern School also in Idale, where he spent just one year. during his first of the three-year course at the Mordern school he applied…
Recently the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, acting on behalf of the federal government, gave some inputs to farmers in the state. But some of the farmers are not happy, because some of these inputs are sub-standard. BUSHLINK had an interview with one of the farmers, Pa Folajimi Israel Akinsulure, who is a member of…
Pastor (Otunba) Tola Faseru, Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Osun State is also the President of the African Cashew Alliance, ACA. In this interview with Sultan Bello he speaks about the policies and programmes aimed at boosting Cocoa production and attaining food sufficiency in the state. Excerpts: There was a report that tractors purchased…
Muyideen Abiodun Abdulazeez is not the typical meat seller. He has a private abattoir that is also uniquely different from what you see about town. He is humble, demonstrates deep knowledge of what he is doing and seals that with a high degree of hygiene. Yet, the road to the present was not a bed…
By the time he started out as a farmer he was sufficiently interested and learned about the art of farming that it would be wrong to say he went in out of sheer necessity or because he had no options. Yes, he took up a job on a farm when it was becoming difficult to…
By the time he started out as a farmer he was sufficiently interested and learned about the art of farming that it would be wrong to say he went in out of sheer necessity or because he had no options. Yes, he took up a job on a farm when it was becoming difficult to…
By the time he started out as a farmer he was sufficiently interested and learned about the art of farming that it would be wrong to say he went in out of sheer necessity or because he had no options. Yes, he took up a job on a farm when it was becoming difficult to…
He learnt two vocations, after a failed attempt to go to school. The first did not yield much dividend, thus leading him to the second, which he said gave him the financial standing to train his children. Being a lover of education that eluded him, he ensured that his children were not denied that…
