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Niyya farms located in Kaduna Nigeria produces, Farm Pride juice and yogurt . It is one of the first large scale juice and yogurt companies in Nigeria to not use imported fruits, using only fruits that are cultivated and harvested here in Nigeria.

The juice is 100% natural, not from concentrate, full of antioxidants , vitamin C and A , the refreshing juice is made from fruits that are harvested and cultivated in Nigeria. The juice comes in four delicious flavors; orange, mango, guava and tropical.

Farm Pride yogurt is made with milk, enriched with a variety of delicious flavors like pineapple, strawberry, and also includes unsweetened yogurts with zero sugar and sweetened yogurt.

Today the delicious taste of Farm Pride juice and yogurt is available at stores across Nigeria at very affordable prices, go to [url]www.farmpridenatural.com[http://www.farmpridenatural.com/store-locator/] to find an outlet closest to you.

Taste the difference in each bottle.

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Niyya farms located in Kaduna Nigeria produces, Farm Pride juice and yogurt . It is one of the first large scale juice and yogurt companies in Nigeria to not use imported fruits, using only fruits that are cultivated and harvested here in Nigeria.

The juice is 100% natural, not from concentrate, full of antioxidants , vitamin C and A , the refreshing juice is made from fruits that are harvested and cultivated in Nigeria. The juice comes in four delicious flavors; orange, mango, guava and tropical.

Farm Pride yogurt is made with milk, enriched with a variety of delicious flavors like pineapple, strawberry, and also includes unsweetened yogurts with zero sugar and sweetened yogurt.

Today the delicious taste of Farm Pride juice and yogurt is available at all SPAR and SHOPRITE outlets across Nigeria at very affordable prices.

Taste the difference in each bottle.

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Yemi Alade releases the visuals to the remix of her hit single 'Kissing' featuring Jeff, MTN Project Fame West Africa season 8 winner .
The pair had initially performed the song together at the grand finale of the Project Fame West Africa season 8 showdown. Ultima studios and 960 Music made this collaboration possible, it will be the first of its kind as a talent show winner goes beyond performing on stage with an A list artist to being featured in the video which is currently trending.
The video is another interpretation of the songs initial theme; the beauty of young, and enduring love.
Yemi Alade graciously gives Jeff room to shine through her song, as both of them give the song a whole new scene that is generally fresh, young and contemporary.
Yemi Alade, one of the major forces in the African music scene, becomes almost like a guardian angel to the love birds in the video, with her strong and beautiful voice complimenting Jeff’s as they weave in and out of musical notes.
Watch, enjoy and don't forget to share.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEvD7GyAYrg]

Yemi Alade releases the visuals to the remix of her hit single 'Kissing' featuring Jeff, MTN Project Fame West Africa season 8 winner .
The pair had initially performed the song together at the grand finale of the Project Fame West Africa season 8 showdown. Ultima studios and 960 Music made this collaboration possible, it will be the first of its kind as a talent show winner goes beyond performing on stage with an A list artist to being featured in the video which is currently trending.
The video is another interpretation of the songs initial theme; the beauty of young, and enduring love.
Yemi Alade graciously gives Jeff room to shine through her song, as both of them give the song a whole new scene that is generally fresh, young and contemporary.
Yemi Alade, one of the major forces in the African music scene, becomes almost like a guardian angel to the love birds in the video, with her strong and beautiful voice complimenting Jeff’s as they weave in and out of musical notes.
Watch, enjoy and don't forget to share.

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100% Nigerian Made Farm Pride Natural Juice, on Top Shelves Nation Wide

Nigeria Loses Almost 1Billion Dollas Annually From Fruit Juice Imports spending N165 billion annually importing fruit juice, says the President of the Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN), Dr Frank Jacobs.

In a paper presented at a workshop organised by the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) in Owerri on Friday, Jacobs noted that in spite of the high rate of fruit production and a thriving juice market, the country imported fruits concentrates.

In the paper entitled “Promoting Investments in Concentrate Production,” he said the situation resulted in an estimated loss of one billion dollars annually.

Jacobs, represented by Nwabueze Anyanwu, observed that Nigerian farmers also lost 60 per cent of their produce as a result of lack of processing facilities.

He listed other factors to include limited demand and logistics challenges such as handling and transporting the fruits to the urban centers.

“Importation of concentrates has adversely affected local fruits cultivation for juice processing,” the MAN president said.

He also said that the continued dependence on massive importation of concentrates by industries was not healthy for the nation’s economy.

He said that the availability of raw materials, a large market, a ready domestic concentrate and good export potentials should serve as incentives to attract investment in the project.

Jacobs said that the challenge of poor concentrates in the country could be overcome with improved high-yield seedlings, technology and technical services and better education and enlightenment for farmers.

He noted that the recent drive by the Federal Government to diversify the economy, encourage resource-based industrialization and backward integration should provide the needed impetus to attract investors.

He urged the government to ensure policy consistency to avoid a repetition of policy somersaults of yester-years.

The industrialist said that research and development be made an integral part of the country’s backward integration policy while various research institutions should be strengthened through funding and manpower development.

Another area to be considered, he said, was a “special lending facility of not more than 5 per cent interest rate’’ for investments in concentrate production in view of the huge capital outlay required for the project.

Jacobs opined that the gains of promoting resource-based industrialization included conservation of foreign exchange, employment generation, wealth creation, economic diversification and poverty reduction.

“A nation’s over dependence on importation harms its poise, weakens its future reserves, affects its ability to be fully independent and presents a string of unpredictable social ills,” he said.

The workshop was organised in collaboration with the Imo state Polytechnic, Umuagwo.

With the growing demand of Farm Pride juice, a product made in Nigeria, our country will be looking to evolve past this and become a country that generates billions from exporting delicious juice products.

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Its Earth day 22nd April 2016 #earthday and Farm Pride is proud to be an Eco friendly brand helping the environment on tree at a time. We wish you a happy earth day and hope you play your role in making our planet a better place to breath, live and be in. This Earth Day , let’s get really big stuff done for our planet says Earth day Network . What are we waiting for? The time is now.

We are now entering the 46th year of a movement that continues to inspire, challenge ideas, ignite passion, and motivate people to action.

In 1970, the year of our first Earth Day, the movement gave voice to an emerging consciousness, channeling human energy toward environmental issues. Forty-six years later, we continue to lead with groundbreaking ideas and by the power of our example.

And so it begins. Today. Right here and right now. Earth Day is more than just a single day — April 22, 2016. It’s bigger than attending a rally and taking a stand.

This Earth Day and beyond, let’s make big stuff happen. Let’s plant 7.8 billion trees for the Earth. Let’s divest from fossil fuels and make cities 100% renewable. Let’s take the momentum from the Paris Climate Summit and build on it.

Let’s start now. And let’s not stop.

Had your #farmpride natural fruit drink today? Join the celebration with a delicious #farmpride fruit juice and yogurt.

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Nigeria is a blessed country, yes. However, though she has almost everything she truly needs, she has abandoned her numerous resources for imported, finished goods. When Nigeria kept the faith, her currency, the Naira, was higher than the United States dollar and almost at par with the British pound sterling.

Well, those were the days when Nigeria was a productive country; the days when we were an export-oriented country. We even exported palm trees to Malaysia, which, today, is about the world’s largest producer of palm oil, while Nigeria gradually, but steadily gravitated towards an import-oriented country, no thanks to the discovery of crude oil.

Former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwunmi Adesina, who is currently president of the African Development Bank (AFDB) had said that the country spends over N1.1trn on the importation of wheat, rice, fish and sugar yearly. According to him, the country spent N356bn and N217bn on rice and sugar importation, respectively. The collective amounts – N635bn and N97bn – were spent on wheat and fish, respectively.

One example of the food we import which poses a huge danger to human health is frozen food. The fishes would have been killed weeks – if not months – before finding their way to the ships which spend months on the sea to get to the Benin Republic, from where they are smuggled into Nigeria. All the while, these fishes are preserved using chemicals, to prevent them from going bad.

This importation of fish has discouraged Nigerian fishermen and women from a trade that was lucrative in the past.

Instead of patronizing imported, ‘toxic’, frozen fish and canned meat which have lost their nutritional value, fish-farming can be encouraged in the country.

Nonso Agume, owner of a fish farm in Lagos, told LEADERSHIP Friday that it will take about six months for one to reap the dividends of one’s labor. According Nonso, he has since ceased looking for jobs that are, simply, unavailable, but he has become an employer of labor. Nonso has not only helped conserved the nation’s foreign reserve, he is adding value to the local economy.

Tule gave another vivid description of how the love for imported goods has turned the country into a dumping ground of some sort. Nigerians spend so much foreign earnings in the importation of rice. Rice that has been warehoused for years and may have lost some nutritional value as well in place of the Ofada rice and Abakiliki rice which has more nutritional value than those imported.

When some items were black-listed from accessing the official foreign exchange market, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele said the Federal Government spent $2.41bn on rice importation between January 2012 and May 2015.

He said: “The bank will make funds more accessible to farmers through some of its funding programs, such as the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme and the N220bn Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development fund.

“The funds will be made available to rice farmers through the micro-finance banks at an interest rate of nine per cent and, any bank that charges interest above that rate should be reported to the CBN.

“We appeal to the state governments to provide lands for the farmers on a large-scale, so that we can work with them to take care of some of these impediments.

“We are at a stage where we must feed ourselves and, all hands are on deck to ensure [that] this works,” he said.

There are many other areas in which the country’s economic team could look to reverse the nation’s over-dependence on imported goods.

It could only be news to the younger generation that certain produces like groundnut, rubber, cocoa, animal products, among others, were sources of revenue to the country.

Then, there was – and still remain – a cocoa house to show for the gainful activities of the nation’s founding parents.

There used to be – though it has become history – groundnut pyramids in Northern Nigeria, awaiting exportation, while others like rubber, palm-tree, among others, emerged major contributors to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It is safe to categorize most of these high-earning productive sectors of the Nigerian economy under ‘agriculture’.

According to the NBS’s publication, agriculture, as practices in Nigeria, is characterized by considerable regional and crop diversity. Analysis of this sector, particularly the food sub-sector, is fraught with serious data problems. However, the available statistics provide a broad overview of development in agriculture upon which we can make some broad generalizations about its role in economic development and structural change in Nigeria.

In the 1960s, the agricultural sector was the most important in terms of contributions to domestic production, employment and foreign exchange earnings. The situation is a whole new one, with crude oil now the main foreign exchange-earner.

The sector remained stagnant during the decade of ‘oil boom’, beginning from the ‘70s and this accounted largely for the declining share of its contributions. The trend in the share of agriculture in the GDP shows a substantial variation and long-term decline from 60 per cent in the early ‘60s through 48.8 per cent in the 1970s and 22.2 per cent in the ‘80s.

Unstable and often inappropriate economic policies (of pricing, trade and exchange rate), the relative neglect of the sector and the negative impact of oil boom were also important factors responsible for the decline in its contributions.

On its diversity, Nigerian agriculture features tree and food crops, forestry, livestock and fisheries. In 1993 at 1984 constant factor cost, crops (the major source of food) accounted for about 30 per cent of the Gross Domestic Products (GDP), livestock about five per cent, forestry and wildlife about 1.3 per cent and fisheries accounted 1.2 per cent.

In most of the surveys and censuses conducted by the NBS, which is the major producer of agricultural statistics in Nigeria, crops and livestock are always considered together because of the tendency for most of the farmers to practice crops and livestock husbandry simultaneously. A separate discussion of livestock will involve duplication of some aspects of the survey and censuses designed for collating crops’ statistics.

Now, outside agriculture with companies like Niyya Farms making a positive difference, Nigeria has made some positive strides in the automobile industry, no matter how little it may be. Besides Innoson Motors, producing or assembling vehicles in the country – depending on varied economic viewpoints – we also have other car manufacturers assembling cars in Nigeria.

It will go a long way in helping employment and encouraging technology transfer, as well as boost the local economy than rely on the importation of BMW cars and other notable household automobile brands from their country of assembly or manufacture.

Adapting these measures, among others, could make Nigeria great again, swell her foreign exchange reserve and strengthen her currency against the American dollar.

The list is inexhaustible, but we have to start from somewhere, by we the people patronizing Nigerian products. Buying more of Nigerian made products like Farm Pride instead of imported juices, and Innoson instead of imported vehicles.

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/04/24/patronizing-nigerian-products/

Nigeria is a blessed country, yes. However, though she has almost everything she truly needs, she has abandoned her numerous resources for imported, finished goods. When Nigeria kept the faith, her currency, the Naira, was higher than the United States dollar and almost at par with the British pound sterling.

Well, those were the days when Nigeria was a productive country; the days when we were an export-oriented country. We even exported palm trees to Malaysia, which, today, is about the world’s largest producer of palm oil, while Nigeria gradually, but steadily gravitated towards an import-oriented country, no thanks to the discovery of crude oil.

Former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwunmi Adesina, who is currently president of the African Development Bank (AFDB) had said that the country spends over N1.1trn on the importation of wheat, rice, fish and sugar yearly. According to him, the country spent N356bn and N217bn on rice and sugar importation, respectively. The collective amounts – N635bn and N97bn – were spent on wheat and fish, respectively.

One example of the food we import which poses a huge danger to human health is frozen food. The fishes would have been killed weeks – if not months – before finding their way to the ships which spend months on the sea to get to the Benin Republic, from where they are smuggled into Nigeria. All the while, these fishes are preserved using chemicals, to prevent them from going bad.

This importation of fish has discouraged Nigerian fishermen and women from a trade that was lucrative in the past.

Instead of patronizing imported, ‘toxic’, frozen fish and canned meat which have lost their nutritional value, fish-farming can be encouraged in the country.

Nonso Agume, owner of a fish farm in Lagos, told LEADERSHIP Friday that it will take about six months for one to reap the dividends of one’s labor. According Nonso, he has since ceased looking for jobs that are, simply, unavailable, but he has become an employer of labor. Nonso has not only helped conserved the nation’s foreign reserve, he is adding value to the local economy.

Tule gave another vivid description of how the love for imported goods has turned the country into a dumping ground of some sort. Nigerians spend so much foreign earnings in the importation of rice. Rice that has been warehoused for years and may have lost some nutritional value as well in place of the Ofada rice and Abakiliki rice which has more nutritional value than those imported.

When some items were black-listed from accessing the official foreign exchange market, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele said the Federal Government spent $2.41bn on rice importation between January 2012 and May 2015.

He said: “The bank will make funds more accessible to farmers through some of its funding programs, such as the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme and the N220bn Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development fund.

“The funds will be made available to rice farmers through the micro-finance banks at an interest rate of nine per cent and, any bank that charges interest above that rate should be reported to the CBN.

“We appeal to the state governments to provide lands for the farmers on a large-scale, so that we can work with them to take care of some of these impediments.

“We are at a stage where we must feed ourselves and, all hands are on deck to ensure [that] this works,” he said.

There are many other areas in which the country’s economic team could look to reverse the nation’s over-dependence on imported goods.

It could only be news to the younger generation that certain produces like groundnut, rubber, cocoa, animal products, among others, were sources of revenue to the country.

Then, there was – and still remain – a cocoa house to show for the gainful activities of the nation’s founding parents.

There used to be – though it has become history – groundnut pyramids in Northern Nigeria, awaiting exportation, while others like rubber, palm-tree, among others, emerged major contributors to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It is safe to categorize most of these high-earning productive sectors of the Nigerian economy under ‘agriculture’.

According to the NBS’s publication, agriculture, as practices in Nigeria, is characterized by considerable regional and crop diversity. Analysis of this sector, particularly the food sub-sector, is fraught with serious data problems. However, the available statistics provide a broad overview of development in agriculture upon which we can make some broad generalizations about its role in economic development and structural change in Nigeria.

In the 1960s, the agricultural sector was the most important in terms of contributions to domestic production, employment and foreign exchange earnings. The situation is a whole new one, with crude oil now the main foreign exchange-earner.

The sector remained stagnant during the decade of ‘oil boom’, beginning from the ‘70s and this accounted largely for the declining share of its contributions. The trend in the share of agriculture in the GDP shows a substantial variation and long-term decline from 60 per cent in the early ‘60s through 48.8 per cent in the 1970s and 22.2 per cent in the ‘80s.

Unstable and often inappropriate economic policies (of pricing, trade and exchange rate), the relative neglect of the sector and the negative impact of oil boom were also important factors responsible for the decline in its contributions.

On its diversity, Nigerian agriculture features tree and food crops, forestry, livestock and fisheries. In 1993 at 1984 constant factor cost, crops (the major source of food) accounted for about 30 per cent of the Gross Domestic Products (GDP), livestock about five per cent, forestry and wildlife about 1.3 per cent and fisheries accounted 1.2 per cent.

In most of the surveys and censuses conducted by the NBS, which is the major producer of agricultural statistics in Nigeria, crops and livestock are always considered together because of the tendency for most of the farmers to practice crops and livestock husbandry simultaneously. A separate discussion of livestock will involve duplication of some aspects of the survey and censuses designed for collating crops’ statistics.

Now, outside agriculture with companies like Niyya Farms making a positive difference, Nigeria has made some positive strides in the automobile industry, no matter how little it may be. Besides Innoson Motors, producing or assembling vehicles in the country – depending on varied economic viewpoints – we also have other car manufacturers assembling cars in Nigeria.

It will go a long way in helping employment and encouraging technology transfer, as well as boost the local economy than rely on the importation of BMW cars and other notable household automobile brands from their country of assembly or manufacture.

Adapting these measures, among others, could make Nigeria great again, swell her foreign exchange reserve and strengthen her currency against the American dollar.

The list is inexhaustible, but we have to start from somewhere, by we the people patronizing Nigerian products. Buying more of Nigerian made products like Farm Pride instead of imported juices, and Innoson instead of imported vehicles.

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/04/24/patronizing-nigerian-products/

An Orange a Day Keeps the Doctor Away is the anthem we should sing to help our economy and our health. I understand the metallic or artificial counterpart to the Apple as the sign of the capitulation of our economy to neo liberal economics is used or Tokunbo cars. We see them arrayed along every main road and street, and often right in front of the neighbor's house turned overnight into a used car sale depot. Since brand new vehicles are out of the reach for ordinary citizens, we rejoice to be able to buy a 10-15-year-old tokunbo, and would even go to dedicate it to God with praise and thanksgiving and merriment. But as with the ubiquitous but harmless looking — indeed, healthy apple — every purchase takes away dollars unseen. Yes, we pay for the apple and the tokunbo car in Naira, but the importers do so in dollars. Hence our current value-of-the-naira tragedy. Which would not be the case if only there were an equal exchange of produce, say for every imported red delicious apple we also exported a sweet golden orange.

When the only thing we do substantially export, crude oil, was selling for over one hundred dollars a barrel, and there were enough green-backs to service our acquired tastes, there appeared to be no problem. At any rate, the national economic logic says, import or die! Without a rail-based mass transit program — not to be confused with transport by minibuses — and with our minds now trained to believe that an imported temperate fruit trumps all of our tropical offerings, what are we to do? After all, didn’t we learn it in school that an apple a day keeps the doctor away? Was it ever said that an orange or a mango a day does the same wonderful thing? And did anyone tell us that the choice of the apple was arbitrary, being metaphorical, since it could well have been any other temperate fruit: pear, peach, apricot, plum, cherry, blackberry, etc? That the point really was to urge the eating of a fruit a day, and that some would even swear that the Kiwi or Chinese gooseberry, not the apple, is the wonder-fruit?

Not to forget the point. We are not keeping the doctor away by importing apples in shiploads. On the contrary, the apple has come to symbolize our complete dependency syndrome, our incurable appetite for what we do not produce. How long before we understand that an apple a day converts our Naira to dollars and keeps our money, not the doctor, away? Its time we repeat everyday to ourselves and to the children: an orange a day keeps the doctor away and our money at home.

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Agriculture the New Gold Mine, It is no more news that countries that rely on liquid and some solid mineral resources as their sources of revenue are hard hit by global headwinds.

Oil, which used to be the darling of the international business community, has now become a pariah. The price of crude has had over 400 percent pratfall in the last 20 months, putting Nigeria, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan on their toes.

South Africa, which used to see metals, gold and diamond as perpetual money spinners, now run the risk of going into recession. Global prices of these items are declining fast, and China is no more buying as much as it was doing. Over 50,000 South Africans working in mining sites are about to be pushed into the labor market, with attendant negative social, economic and political consequences.

Amid these crises is an opportunity for Africa to recreate itself in agriculture and agro-allied industries. Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of cassava. But Thailand is now the largest exporting country of dried cassava, with a total of 77 percent of world export. Cassava remains one of the biggest gifts handed down to Nigeria as it is capable of bringing in foreign exchange amid currency and economy crises facing the country.

The crop can be processed into chips, pellets, flour, adhesives, alcohol, and starch, which are vital raw materials in the livestock, feed, alcohol/ethanol, textile, confectionery, wood, food and soft drinks industries. They are also trad-able in the international market, according to the FAO.

However, big multinationals still look outside Nigeria to get starch, while no effort has been made to steer the cassava beer revolution in the country, despite consumers calling for this. Africa grows different fruits that can be processed into juices. From South Africa to Nigeria, down to Ghana and Liberia, there are fruits such as guava, orange, mango , among others, which can earn some foreign exchange with little addition.

Sadly most fruit juice companies rely on concentrates from Asia and other parts of the world. Nigeria alone imports $140 million orange concentrates, according to data.

It is good news that companies such as Farm Pride and Niyya Farms have stepped forward to set a standard of producing 100% natural juice and yogurt with fruits and products cultivated and harvested in Nigeria. Harnessing the agricultural potential in Nigeria and producing top quality fruit juices.

Farmpride Niyya Farm

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Imported oranges bad for the Nigerian Variety, sadly oranges are not on Nigeria’s Import Prohibition List, owing to existing regional agreements like the Common External Tariff (CET), which permits importation of fruits.

“The fruits are imported into the country the way frozen foods are being smuggled into the country...,” Mogaji said.

Each year, millions of tonnes of oranges and other fruits are harvested in Nigeria but a good number of them go down the drain as wastage, due to poor market access and poor storage facilities and transportation glitches. Most of the oranges in the country are farmed in the middle belt region of the country, with traders buying and conveying them across the country.

“It is abnormal for a country blessed with huge arable and tropical lands to allow imported fruits and agricultural produce in, as this would put pressure on the country’s currency, reduce revenue to both government and individuals, and worsen the rising rate of unemployment,” said Akin Omotayo, director, Institute of Food Security, Environmental Resources and Agricultural Research (IFSERAR).

Nigeria is currently the ninth producer of citrus fruits in the world, with 3.4 million tonnes, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in its report. Fruit juices are categorized under the food and beverage sub-sector, which is the largest of all the groups in the manufacturing sector.

Forward thinking farms like Niyya farms are light years ahead of most, cultivating and harvesting the sweet delicious oranges in Nigeria, to produce delicious and nutritious juices like Farm Pride fruit juice, delicious and 100% Nigerian.

Farmpride Niyya Farms

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World Health Day 2016 #diabetes 7 April 2016

Every year, the World Health Organization selects a priority area of global public health concern as the theme for World Health Day, which falls on 7 April, the birthday of the Organization.

The theme for World Health Day 2016 was diabetes, a noncommunicable disease (NCD) directly impacting millions of people of globally, mostly in low- and middle-income countries.

Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose which may over time lead to serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves. The prevalence of diabetes has been steadily increasing in the past few decades, in particular in low- and middle-income countries. Knowledge exists to reverse this trend through targeted prevention and appropriate care.

But diabetes – the main forms of which are type 1 and type 2 diabetes – is not just a health issue.

Diabetes and its complications bring about substantial economic loss to people with diabetes and their families, and to health systems and national economies through direct medical costs and loss of work and wages.

Working to prevent, detect and treat diabetes is also critical to development. Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Governments have set an ambitious target to reduce premature mortality from NCDs – including diabetes – by one third; achieve universal health coverage; and provide access to affordable essential medicines – all by 2030.

Diabetes is one of four priority NCDs targeted by world leaders in the 2011 Political Declaration on the Prevention and Control of NCDs and the SDGs 2016-2030. The Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013-2020 provides a roadmap and menu of policy options to attain nine voluntary global targets, including an additional target to halt the rise in diabetes and obesity by 2025.

World Health Day 2016 #diabetes

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Yummy Mango Margarita is our Monday mix this week

Ingredient for the mix are :

1/2 cup delicious Farm Pride Mango Juice
1 lime
1.5 ounces tequila (1800 Silver)
1/5 ounces triple sec
1 tablespoon simple syrup (or more to taste)
sea salt and a peach slice to garnish
Combine the mango juice, lime juice, tequila, triple sec and simple syrup, stir to mix well.

Rim your glass by placing the rim in a shallow amount of water and then dipping it into coarse sea salt.

Add ice and pour the mixed drink over ice.

Garnish with a slice on mango.

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Specialists Say Guava Lowers Blood sugar, stating that consuming guava daily helps lower blood sugar levels. Research shows that the hypoglycemic effect of guava is useful in the treatment of diabetes. Stating that those who are at risk of developing diabetes can help prevent it by eating and drinking guava/ guava leaf tea.

The specialist also added that guava is a super fruit due to its numerous health promoting qualities and high contents of vitamins A, C and others which helps maintain healthy weight.

She said that guava and its leaves were known for their high contents in Vitamins B2, E, K, and Fibre, Calcium, Copper, Folate, Iron, Phosphorous, Manganese and Potassium.

The expert advised pregnant women to consume guava due to its high content in folic acid which helps in the development of the baby’s nervous system as well as protect the baby from neurological disorders.

She mentioned guava as one of the major fruits that helps in maintaining good vision and also brain health due to its richness in VitaminB3 and B6.

She suggested the intake of guava juice, adding that it helps in relaxation, aid sleep and also helps slow down ageing symptoms.

However, the doctor also advised that guava should be consumed moderately, warning that excessive amounts may be harmful due to its high contents in fructose. Check out the Farm Pride Guava juice, healthy and delicious.

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It’s the season of one of your favorite African fruits, ‘Agbalumo’ in Yoruba , ‘Idara’ in Igbo and ‘African white star apple’ in English. So here a 5 interesting things about Agbalumo/Udara :

First of all the fruit as most fruits is very rich in vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin. Unlike most mammals and other animals, humans do not have the ability to make ascorbic acid and must obtain vitamin C from their diet. Agbalumo is a good source for vitamin C, the fruit is also rich in calcium, iron potassium, phosphorous and others.
It is a natural antioxidants are substances that may protect your cells against the effects of free radicals — molecules produced when your body breaks down food or is exposed to tobacco smoke and radiation. What this means is that by consumption of agbalumo you give your body a better chance of fighting and avoiding heart disease, cancer etc. The fruit is known to have anti-oxidant properties that help fight cancer and treatment of diabetes.
The fruit contains just 67 calories. This fruit is very good for those who want to lose weight because you consume more and get fewer calories intake. It is also a good snacking fruit which can be used to stop hunger pangs.
Frequent consumption of the fruit can help lower blood sugar and cholesterol thereby preventing or managing heart diseases. It is a very good recommendation for patient with heart problems.
The agbalumo/udara is a natural remedies for toothache, constipation, sore throat, and much more. Also in some parts of Nigeria the seeds are used to treat vaginal and skin infections.

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/03/26/5-interesting-things-about-agbalumoudara/

A year ago a reporter traced a community where strawberry is grown in commercial quantity. Some readers were surprised to know that the fruit grows here in Nigeria,as was I.
One year after, the reporter returned to the community to see what changes have occurred, what new technology has been brought into the farming of the crop; and whether the product’s marketing challenges have been solved.
Apparently the strawberry farming, which until recently, is not a common practice here in Nigeria, is now the most important produce that shapes the economy of the people of Chaha, where almost every adult has a strawberry farm. Chaha seems to have huge potentials for strawberry, coffee and other fruit trees, as a visit to the community convinces one.
With the cold weather that characterizes the highland of Plateau State, the ground favors the production of strawberry, which has now been domesticated in the village since 2001.
The fruit has the potentials to breed new generations of millionaires in Chaha if access to market is broadened, because the farmers are between the ages of 20 to 35.

However finding buyers is an issue, most harvest about 600kg weekly, but end up selling 400kg because they have to give ‘Jara’(an extra on the quantity bought) to the women buying.
“We don’t just know where else to sell this product ,but we are told that the demand is high in some places in Nigeria. Most of our farmers here have not traveled outside Plateau State,” a farmer noted.
Sadly most of the big malls in the country are import the product, while these farmers don’t have where to sell theirs.
Strawberry has enormous health benefits to humans. It has been used in a medicinal context to help people with digestive ailments, teeth whitening and skin irritations.
Experts said strawberry provides good source of vitamins C and K as well as providing a good dose of fiber, folic acid, manganese and potassium, strawberries provide high amounts of vitamin C.

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/03/25/strawberry-farming-crippled-jos/

3 secrets at the fountain of youth are :

1. Energy- Energy is peculiar to the young, its also one of the secrets to youthful living, when you have a lot of energy you are much more active, the more active you are the higher your metabolism, the faster you burn fat, the faster your heart pumps blood, better your system works, the younger you look, its a cycle. How can you rev up your energy level? Fruits, fruits are an awesome source of energy.


2 Fruits - To be honest, here a so many fruits you can eat a new fruit every day for days, this is because fruits are one of the secrets to youth and long life. The use of fruits are limitless check out just 5 of the uses of fruits in one of our previous article.


3. Peace of mind - Peace of mind comes from within, it takes more practice than we are told but once mastered, the simple things at like laughter, sleep, rest come easy. and the skin reflects this giving you a youthful glow. Peace of mind also helps stabilize hormones for women and boosts productivity. So one less thing to worry about will be where to get guava from in November; Farm Pride bottle which is at all retail stores, and also available on online stores.

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/03/24/3-secrets-at-the-fountain-of-youth/

5 reasons why you should take fruits daily, there are numerous obvious reasons why everyone should enjoy the nutrients of fruits everyday. The concept of an apple a day keeps the doctors away is what we are looking at. So lets go through the list together :

1. Fibers- Fruits are an awesome source of fiber in your diet, and fibers help foods digest faster meaning slimmer stomach, nicer skin, and healthy digestive system.

2. Fruits are undeniably delicious, without harmful sugars, this means you could have as much as your want and not have to worry about your sugar consumption.

3. They have truck loads of nutrients, vitamins A, B, C, E that can be found in most fruits, these vitamins help improve eyesight, dentition, skin glow, and general way of life.

4. Fruits are satisfying, because they can satisfy hunger pangs they are great for cravings, pregnant women, snacking and those on a diet. this way you can always put something in your tummy without fear of gaining weight.

5. Zero Calories- Yes most fruits literally have zero calories, some fruits in fact are calorie burners, that help rev up your metabolism.

Other Benefits of Fruits include...
Best of all you can get your favorite fruit in a bottle with Farm Pride fruit juice, fresh of the tree. So you never miss any of these benefits, cheers to that.

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/03/23/5-reasons-take-fruits-daily/

It's World Happiness Day, Farm Pride always goes all out to make you happy. Did you know that orange, strawberry and several fruits affect serotonin production in the brain, thus making you happier? Serotonin is one of the chemicals produced by your brain to make you happy.

It's World Happiness Day, Farm Pride

Have a bottle of your favorite Farm pride fruit juice, and get a happy boost for another happy day ‪#‎worldhappinessday‬

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/03/22/its-world-happiness-day/

Orange Sangria is our Monday Mix, the punch serves six

What do you need?

1 cup Farm Pride Orange Juice
1 lemon (sliced)
1 blood orange (sliced)
1 bottle of champagne
Monday Mix : Orange Sangria farm pride orange juice
Combine the sliced fruits, juice and champagne in a jug then serve chilled, simple!
Cheers to yet another great week.

Monday Mix : Orange Sangria farm pride monday mix

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/03/21/monday-mix-orange-sangria/

Farm Pride officially partners with SPAR Nigeria. Now your favorite Farm Pride Juice and Yoghurt is available at any SPAR store close to you, wherever you are in Nigeria. Simply locate the Farm Pride dangler and get your healthy dose of delicious fruit juice and yoghurt.

We make it our business to make healthy living easier for you.

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/03/16/farm-pride-partners-with-s/

Farm Pride is ABL's favorite fruit drink !! Farm Pride has officially partnered with ABL; African Basket League, revitalizing the basketball players as they set ablaze the basketball court. Spot Farm Pride at the next games scheduled to hold this weekend, and just might get a refreshing and nourishing surprise.

FARM PRIDE IS ABL'S FAVORITE FRUIT DRINK

Share and taste the difference with Farm Pride Juice and Yogurt!!

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20% of men and almost 50% of women will probably damage a bone as they grow older due to lack of care of the skeletal system, how can you avoid that? Here are some tips to help strengthen your bones;

Slow down - Max advises: “Stress can rot your bones faster than a can of fizzy drink so try to reduce it from the moment you wake. "The ‘fight or flight’ hormone cortisol breaks down amino acids inside collagen for emergency energy. Collagen is the matrix upon which bones are built. This interferes with the formation and spread of bone-building cells, decreasing bone building and lowering bone density. It also causes magnesium – an important bone builder – to drain out of the body.” Use a natural daylight alarm and have a few minutes taking deep breaths and thinking positive thoughts before you get up from bed,” said Max.

Drink Water - try water with a squeeze of lemon juice and a pinch of cayenne pepper to increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach. This aids digestion and helps absorb nutrients needed for building bone strength. Drink water while outdoors to boost your levels of vitamin D from spring sunlight – an essential nutrient for bone strength and fracture resistance. While outside, plan weekend gardening tasks. Pulling weeds and digging soil are great back strengtheners.


Drink natural juice or smoothie - State off your day with natural juice of smoothies like Farm Pride Mango juice or Blend your favorite Farm Pride yogurt with some raspberries/strawberries, bananas and watermelon, yummy.

Exercise - Is there a healthy list where exercise is not on the list, the advantages of exercise are without limit, stretch your muscles a bit to help strengthen your bones.

http://www.farmpridenatural.com/2016/03/10/take-care-skeleton-top-tips/