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INSIGHTS ON AVOCADO

 Nigeria Sleeps on a GREEN GOLD while Kenya Makes over $180m yearly on Avocado. This Avocado 🥑 value chain always gets me emotional when I discuss it. The painful part is Avocado Sector can create 10,000 direct & Indirect Job with export earnings of around N80bn for Nigeria. Nigeria has the perfect Soil, Climate for Avocado production. Avocado can grow in 20 states in commercial quantities from North Central down to the south. Even in our Vision 20:2020 Avocado was one of the Industrial Crops that would improve Agricultural Industrialization. With all these Knowledge there was NO strategy to induce commercial production of this Great crop. Presently Nigeria isn't regarded as an Avocado producing country in Africa. The Avocado produced are from subsistent farms that does petty trading with it in rural areas No improvement in seed technology, no off taking plans, no extension service, no strategy to help Avocado producers improve production. This crop has huge value chain, Espec...

GET THE SCOPES BETWEEN PERSONNEL AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

 Personnel management and project management are two distinct disciplines that focus on different aspects of an organization's operations. Here are the key differences between the two: 1. Scope and Focus:    - Personnel Management: Personnel management primarily deals with managing the human resources within an organization. It involves activities such as recruitment, selection, training, performance appraisal, compensation, employee relations, and compliance with labor laws. The focus is on effectively managing and developing the workforce to achieve organizational goals.    - Project Management: Project management, on the other hand, focuses on planning, organizing, and controlling the activities required to achieve specific project objectives. It involves defining project scope, setting goals, allocating resources, managing timelines, coordinating team members, monitoring progress, and ensuring the successful completion of projects within budget and time cons...

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY

BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY  Why must you study Business psychology as a course ?  Business psychology, also known as industrial-organizational psychology, is a field that applies psychological principles and theories to improve workplace productivity, employee satisfaction, and organizational effectiveness. It focuses on understanding human behavior in the workplace and uses psychological techniques to enhance various aspects of business operations. Here are some key areas and concepts related to business psychology: 1. Employee Selection and Assessment: Business psychology helps organizations with selecting and hiring the right individuals for job roles. It involves developing and implementing assessment tools such as interviews, personality tests, and cognitive ability tests to evaluate candidates' suitability. 2. Training and Development: Business psychology plays a role in designing and implementing training programs to enhance employee skills, knowledge, and performance. It invo...

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT CUCUMBER

Cucumber (cucumis satvis L.) is one of the most important exotic vegetables in the country. It is the fourth most cultivated vegetables in the world and known to be one of the best foods for body’s overall health (National News, 2014). It is one of the most popular members of the cucurbitaccae family. Cucumber are valuable source of conventional antioxidant nutrients including vitamin C, bata-carotene and manganese.It is acknowledge that increased agricultural productivitywould help in attaining the needed food security. Enhanced productivity is a combination of measures designed to increase the level of farm resources as well as to make efficient use of resources. Productivity and efficiency of resource use in the production must be sustained in order to benefit maximally from production practices. Soft and succulent, the vegetable crop is cherishedby man and eaten in salads or sliced into stew in tropical regions. Its juice is often recommended as source of Sil...