The Leader, Southwest, Governing Board of the Raw Material Research and Development Council (RMRDC), Asiwaju Solomon Onafowokan, has lauded the University for operating on zero-waste basis in terms of effective utilisation of land. Asiwaju Onafowokan gave this commendation when members of the Governing Board of RMRDC visited the University on a facility tour of the institution’s Cashew Nut Process…

The President-elect of the FUNAAB Student Union, Comrade Olajumoke Olawale, has attributed his victory at the polls to the grace of Almighty God, as he promised to work closely with the University Management, to better the lot of his fellow students. According to Olawale: "People thought I won the election by the virtue of fame or because I had once contested. No, this is far from it. With what ha…

An accreditation team from the Interim Joint Matriculation Board (IJMB), has carried out a full resource inspection visit to the University's Institute of Human Resources Development (INHURD), as part of its regulatory activities for the IJMB programme. Speaking at the event, the leader of the team, Professor Adebayo Oyewale, charged the tutors to teach the students very well so as "to surpass him…

In an attempt to increase milk production and promote small holder dairy production in the community and environs, the Cattle Production Venture (CPV), recently embarked on the Artificial Insemination of the White Fulani Cattle breed with semen from imported cattle species, Holstein Freisian and Asian breeds reputed to be heavy milkers. Professor Daisy Eruvbetine, of the College of Animal Science …

In another development, the Cassava Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) project introduced to the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta(FUNAAB) in 2012 and led by the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (UK) has won the 2014 prestigious Times Higher Education Awardfor International Collaboration of the Year. A follow-up project, C:AVA II, has been launched and funded with $18.8 million from …

A scholar, Professor Bola Okuneye, of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, has advocated for the adoption of the Green Economy, as panacea to taking Nigeria out of the rising poverty in the face of its ever-increasing population. The Don gave this advice at the 14th Professor Anthony Afolabi Adegbola Memorial lecture, held recently, in Lagos which was titled, “The Green Ec…

Officials of Novus International and their representatives in the country, Norgem (Nigeria) Limited recently visited the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), to explore the possibility of establishing a technical co-operation with the University. The Director of Novus International for Latin American and Africa, Dr. Luis Azevedo, while expressing the intention of his firm to ventu…

The Cassava Weed Management Project Team of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), has applauded the University's effort at ensuring optimum production of cassava using effective and sustainable weed management technologies. The Project Administrator, Mrs. Ezinne Ibe, gave the commendation during a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, as well as the…

The 47th Inaugural Lecturer of the University, Professor Carolyn Afolami, has called on the government to focus its attention on rapid industrialisation for sustainable national development. This could be achieved by according agriculture its pride of place by engendering good policies, particularly, those that would make agriculture attractive to the teeming unemployed youths in the country. Deli…

The Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), is planning to establish an Institute of Animal Science in the University. Disclosing this was the leader of the NIAS Resource Verification Team, Professor Akintunde Akinsoyinu, while on a courtesy visit to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole. The leader of the team noted that he was in FUNAAB to verify the available facilities that would…