Agro Farm Blog

 Nigeria, With our large increase in population. We still records tons of hunger and famine within the country despite our working efforts.  According to Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations , two-thirds of the Nigerian labour force works in agriculture, you'd think that for a rustic with such numbers, food security would be high and simply achievable.  However, the reverse is the case and therefore the reason is due to the old practices that are still getting used within the farming sector today. With the good development of agriculture, farmers in Nigeria still undergo tons of stress before foods are often produced, No available facilities and machineries to form farming activities as easy as possible  This was what prompted us to develop a community where farmers can close and leverage on one another’s knowledge, experience and expertise to enhance on their farming operations. The community is additionally opened for the expansion of the young f...

Farming is best addressed because the cultivation of crops and livestock management. Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life(culture)  Agriculture is that the cultivation of animals, plants and fungi for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinal plants and other products wont to sustain and enhance human life. Agriculture also can ask the federal office that administers programs created in 1862 that gives services to farmers including research and conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy.  Farmer could even be an individual that operates a farm and is engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to parents that do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. Farmer is usually also called an agriculturer.  Farm could also be an area of land that's devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the first objective of manufacturing food and other crop...

 Agriculture  The term Agriculture springs from two Latin words ager or agri meaning soil and cultura meaning cultivation. Agriculture is an engineering which encompasses all aspects of crop production  Agriculture is defined as an art, science and business of manufacturing crops and livestock for economic purposes.  As an art it embraces knowledge of the thanks to perform the operations of the farm during a skillful manner,  but doesn't necessarily include an understanding of the principles underlying the farm practices.  As a science: utilizes all technologies developed on scientific principles like crop breeding,  production techniques, crop protection, economics etc. to maximise the yield and profit. for instance ,new crops and varieties developed by hybridization, Transgenic crop varieties immune to pests and diseases, hybrids in each crop, high fertilizer responsive varieties, water management, herbicides to control weeds, use o...

Primary Products from Cassava Four primary industrial products from cassava stand out as important for Nigeria. These are (a) cassava flour, (b) crude ethanol, (c) native starch, and (d) animal feed/cassava chips and pellets and are discussed below. These products are commonly traded and show the highest potential for growth in demand, and are related to medium and enormous scale processing. The Enterprise Analysis for the development of processing plants for every of those sub-sectors is presented in Annex I. In the domestic market, industrial cassava products compete with traditional cassava products, mainly gari. Furthermore, each of the main industrial products (cassava flour, chips for animal feed, chips for food grade ethanol, and cassava starch) faces competition from (a) identical imported products, and (b) substitute products that are either being imported or locally grown. For domestic cassava flour the most competitive product is flour . For cassava chips/pellets it's fe...