FAO Archives - PRNigeria News https://prnigeria.com/tag/fao/ Reliable Platform for Press Release Syndication Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:27:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://i0.wp.com/prnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PRNigeria-Icon.jpg?fit=32%2C23&ssl=1 FAO Archives - PRNigeria News https://prnigeria.com/tag/fao/ 32 32 42672738 International Day of Forest: Forests are more than just trees https://prnigeria.com/2020/03/21/international-forest-than-trees/ Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:27:25 +0000 https://prnigeria.com/?p=30545 International Day of Forest: Forests are more than just trees By Olanrewaju Rukayat I. A single look at the forest, and most people assume it is all about the trees. In Nigeria for instance, ask the man in the street what a forest is, and he’ll define a forest in terms of forest reserves with […]

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]]> 30545 Nigeria ranks world’s largest producer of Yam https://prnigeria.com/2019/11/28/nigeria-ranks-worlds-producer-yam/ Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:22:42 +0000 https://prnigeria.com/?p=26858 Nigeria ranks world’s largest producer of Yam The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), as ranked Nigeria as one of the World’s largest producers of Yam with about 60% of the Global production of the product. The Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr. Mohammed Umar Bello, disclosed this in Abuja at the National Awareness Workshop on Yam, organized by the Advocacy and Resource Mobilization Team (ARMT) of Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA), an initiative of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Dr. Bello, who was represented by the Director of Agriculture, Engr. Frank Satumari Kudla, noted that though Nigeria produces about 64% of Yam, it is […]

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