The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, has charged the Society for Grassland Research and Development in Nigeria (SOGREDEN), to play a vital role in resolving the rustling activities that are causing disaffection among traditional herdsmen and indigenous crop farmers in the country. He made the call during the maiden biennial conference of the Society, tagged “Towards a Sustainable Utilis…

Professor Peter Okuneye, a renowned researcher and scholar in the field of Agricultural and Environmental Economics in the University, has debunked allegations that the nation's cocoa has lost its value and does not meet international standards. Rather, the Don noted that the quality of cocoa being produced in the country remains one of the best in the world. Professor Okuneye made a case for reli…

The Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (CAVA II), a research project sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is poised to promote value addition to cassava. CAVA II is led by the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria, working closely with the Natural Resources Institute of University of Greenwich, United Kingdom; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria, F…

A postgraduate student, who is currently undergoing a Doctorate degree in Parasitology in the University, Mr. Olabanji Surakat, is rising high courtesy of the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), based in Seattle, United States of America, for his immense contributions to the alleviation of Onchocerciasis, a disease commonly known as River Blindness. PATH has offered Olabanji, an…