farm Archives - Daily Concord https://dailyconcord.com/tag/farm/ The Concord of African Journalism Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:17:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://dailyconcord.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-DailyConcordIcon-32x32.png farm Archives - Daily Concord https://dailyconcord.com/tag/farm/ 32 32 Jeremy Clarkson’s green secret: TV petrolhead presenter reveals pride in his carbon-neutral 1,000 acre Oxfordshire farm https://dailyconcord.com/jeremy-clarksons-green-secret-tv/ Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:17:41 +0000 https://dailyconcord.com/?p=13663 As he leaves the ‘punishing schedule’ of studio-based car shows behind him, Jeremy Clarkson has

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As he leaves the ‘punishing schedule’ of studio-based car shows behind him, Jeremy Clarkson has revealed how he’ll be spending his spare time between filming road-trip specials – with farming and conservation.

And The Grand Tour host, 58, has explained how planting and maintaining crops at his aptly named Diddly Squat farm, made up of nearly 1,000 acres in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, means he can claim to be ‘carbon neutral’.

The petrolhead presenter insisted he didn’t buy his land to offset his carbon footprint but that it is ‘a happy coincidence that, should I ever get into a debate with a climate-change enthusiast, I can say I’m carbon-neutral‘.

This is as a result of Clarkson’s land – where he lives with his 47-year-old partner Lisa Hogan – consuming more carbon dioxide through photosynthesis than he has ever generated with gas-guzzling cars.

Having moved into the farm cottage in 2009, Clarkson explained to The Sunday Times that as he nears his 60th birthday, he’s found ‘nothing fills him with more pleasure’, than stomping around his muddy fields. 

Clarkson, along with his presenting partners James May and Richard Hammond, have shifted away from studio car-shows after a 17-year ‘punishing schedule’, as series four of The Grand Tour concentrates on big-budget specials.  

Clarkson is set to start construction of a new six-bedroom house (pictured are the plans) this year

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Farmcrowdy opens the year with new prices for poultry farm unit https://dailyconcord.com/farmcrowdy-opens-the-year-with-new-prices-for-poultry-farm-unit/ Sat, 19 Jan 2019 01:00:23 +0000 https://dailyconcord.com/?p=13448 Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s foremost digital agricultural tech company founded by serial entrepreneur, Onyeka Akumah, has been

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Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s foremost digital agricultural tech company founded by serial entrepreneur, Onyeka Akumah, has been effectively empowering farmers by providing farm input, training, finance and successfully increasing farmers’ income by an average of 80% since 2016 through their digital platform. 

Since inception, Farmcrowdy has empowered over 7,000 farmers across 10 states in Nigeria, has a record of over 20,000 farm sponsorships from all over the world, over 64,000 farm followers and has reared over One Million chickens through its poultry farms.

This year, the digital agricultural platform has decided to make good on its promise of enabling everyone to participate in the achievement of global food security by lowering the barrier of entry into the agriculture space. For the first time since inception, the company has launched a Poultry Farm for only 50,000 NGN per farm unit with a Return After Harvest (RAH) of 11% and a 6-month farm cycle. This is a huge slash from the previous price of 96,000 NGN.

Farmcrowdy closed the previous year 2018 with sold-out farm units on all crops and chickens and was the recipient of numerous awards including Digital Business of the Year 2018 by the Global African Business Awards (GABA) in Ethiopia, they were conferred with the National Productivity Order of Merit Award 2018 by His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, awarded with the Best African AgriTech Solutions Awards at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards 2018 in South Africa, AgriTech Company of the Year 2018 at the Meet the Farmers Conference in Dubai, one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing SMEs in Nigeria in 2018 by BusinessDay and AgriTech Company of the Year Award at the Nigeria Technology Awards 2018.

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