There are good feeding practices that farmers abuse, thinking that they are not necessary,  while sometimes they do or neglect them ignorantly and along the line they encounter problems such as reduced weight, disease outbreak,  poor growth etc. There are some good feeding practices that seems common but they are very important, some say you can apply common sense, but at times…

You cannot talk of bio-security in poultry production without considering the environment of the birds and the birds’ environment include all the things around the birds both living and non-living and they involve the following; feeding troughs, water troughs, feeds, water, the poultry floor, drugs, temperature ranges, light source e.t.c. Bio-security simply means the important measures taken to prevent and…

You cannot achieve food security without optimizing investment finance, production and market for farmers. And you cannot serve as many farmers as possible without leveraging technology and grow digital in this digital age! City Digital Consults deploys agricultural technology solutions in Nigeria. Our productwww.docpol.com is the Nigeria’s first digital poultry farming help, marketplace and investment platform designed to collect data from small…

Marek's disease is a highly contagious viral neoplastic disease in chickens. It is one of the most common problems we see in a flock of small birds. It causes great distress as it is often seen in pullets between 12 and 20 weeks of age and it will be fatal.CauseMareks is caused by a Herpes virus which can survive for…

The stage is set for the 2019 iteration of the Pitch AgriHack competition. 20 judges have completed the evaluation of semi-finalist start-ups and have selected the finalists. The judges are industry experts (ICT and agriculture), entrepreneurs and investors coming from Africa and beyond. Finalists have been selected using ten criteria: proposed solution, agricultural problems addressed, unique value proposition, team composition,…