by Editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Blog
Apiculture is the science of keeping honey bee, harvesting, processing and marketing of the honey and other by-products. An apiary is a place where hives are kept for a successful beekeeping practice, the practitioner or apiculturist must observe the following: Keep...
by Editor | Oct 29, 2019 | Blog
One of the crops considered to yield good returns without requiring big capital is mushroom, but which many farmers ignore. Chief Michael Awunor, president of the National Mushroom Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, told Daily Trust on Sunday...
by Editor | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog
Turkey, scientifically known as Meleagris gallopavo belongs to the family of birds called Meleagrididae. The young birds are called poults; the male birds are referred to as turkey cocks or toms while the female is called turkey hens (Ogundipe and Dafwang, 1980)....
by Editor | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog
Poultry breeders spend a lot of time focusing on finding chicken feed ingredients that provide good nutrition for the flock. Modern farming methods have introduced the ability to enhance the nutritional properties of chicken ingredients with supplements and additives....
by Editor | Oct 24, 2019 | Blog
Yam is in the class of roots and tubers that is a staple of the Nigerian and West African diet, which provides some 200 calories of energy per capita daily. In Nigeria, in many yam-producing areas, it is said that “yam is food and food is yam”. However,...
