The National Horticulture Research Institute (NAHORT) has trained farmers drawn from various communities in Ohaozara, Onicha and Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on three key areas of food crop production based on horticulture value chain.
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it will include farming and crop production as part of the one year primary assignment for corps members from the next service year.
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Plc and Syngenta Agrochemical Company Limited, a seed production and crop protection company, at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at boosting farmers’ yield by up to 80 per cent..
Leventis Foundation Nigeria Limited is transforming the lives of Nigerian youths by providing a one year agricultural training programme for free across its six schools scattered across the country – Kano, Gombe, Kaduna, Osun, Ondo and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Oyo State Government has reiterated its readiness to partner with more foreign and local investors to further promote large scale livestock farming for the economic development of the state.
Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, yesterday declared that ranches remained the only panacea if the government was desirous to end the farmers-herders clashes across the country.
As part of efforts at revitalising agriculture as alternative mainstay of the economy, the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) and SunTrust Bank yesterday in Abuja sealed an e-banking agreement to the development of agricultural sector in Nigeria.
Over 500 rice farmers in Bayelsa State have received seedlings, fertilizers, spray machines and other rice farming inputs from the ongoing Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrowers Programme of the Federal Government. (Bayelsa CBN Anchor Borrowers Scheme Over 500 Rice Farmers Benefits) READ MORE: Rice To Sell For N10,000 A Bag Soon, Says Kebbi Governor […]
The Nigeria’s former ambassador to the United Nations, founder and chairman of Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, recently suggested the revival of the 1965 Grazing Reserve Law as solution to the incessant herdsmen/farmers clashes in the country. Gambari said the law can be revived based on Section 315 of the […]
Experts have advised farmers on ideal situation for intercropping leguminous with non-leguminous crops so as to enhance the fertility of the soil and get maximum yield on the farm. An agronomist, Alhaji Kabir R. Charanchi who has decades of experience in the field said that some farmers plant legumes in between the stems of the […]
How To Build, Maintain Soil Fertility, Soil forms the bedrock upon which plants grow, but the effects of climate change and other destructive land practices like deforestation contribute to depletion of soil nutrients which inorganic fertilisers alone cannot substitute, thus significantly resulting to decline in yield of crops. It is key to maintain a fertile […]
The Catfish and Allied Fish Farmers Association of Nigeria (CAFFAN) has appealed to the Federal Government to intervene in the current ban on importation of smoked fish from Nigeria into the U.S.
The Federal Government says it will establish no fewer than 14 additional rice mills in the country to meet increasing demand for local rice and achieve self sufficiency.
Rwanda Tuesday announced a ban on importation of sheep, goat and their products from Burundi following reports of a viral disease outbreak.
Dangote Flour Mills and other flour millers on Tuesday donated 50 units of multi-crop thresher machine worth N70 million to wheat farmers to boost Nigeria’s self-sufficiency in wheat production.