As part of efforts to address challenges of global demand for safe food, the Food Processing and Value Addition Programme of Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Development and Sustainable Environment (CEADESE) held a Five-Day Training Workshop on Food Processing. Speaking at the Workshop, the Director of CEADESE, Professor Okanlawon Onagbesan said food industries are facing […]
The Pioneer Vice Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, (MOUAU), Abia State, Prof. Placid Njoku has challenged researchers at the institution and agriculture universities to focus on how wheat, Onion, apple, lettuce, carrot, and sorghum can be massively produced in Abia and other states in the south east. He flayed academics “who sit […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Audu Ogbeh, has expressed Federal Government’s readiness to prosecute people trespassing landed properties of Federal College of Agriculture, land grabbers Akure (FECA), Ondo State. Ogbeh, who stated this in Akure, during the diamond jubilee celebration of the college, identified land grabbing, destruction of farms and plantations as […]
The Country Manager of Cassava Adding Value for Africa II (CAVA II) (Nigeria), Prof. Later Sanni has identified inconsistency in the supply of raw materials as a major and critical point for the survival of large-scale industries in the country. Sanni, who stated this during the facilitation and communication skills training programme for Development Programmes […]
Nigeria can put an end to hunger, create jobs and wealth if every hand is on deck in the transformation of the agricultural sector and get involved in commercial and mechanised farming, by taking agric production and its value chain as a business and vital means of food security. Delta State, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, who […]
The Director General of National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC), Mr. Philip O. Ojo has disclosed that Nigeria produces more than 75 percent of the seeds used in West Africa, just as Jigawa State produces more than 80 per cent of the total quality seeds produced in the country. Ojo who stated this during his courtesy […]
Over 4,500 farmers in Kano state are to appear before a mobile court set up recover loans from defaulters under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. The farmers are part of the 5,000 who benefited from the loans which the Central Bank of Nigeria says less than 10 per cent of them had paid back. In a […]
The Kulen Allah Cattle Rearers Association of Nigeria ( KACRAN ) has called on the Federal, states and Local governments to speedy up rehabilitation of already established grazing areas and as well create new ones. This KACRAN said will be a positive step towards reducing the encroachment of Herdsmen into people’s farms. The National Chairman […]
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi has warned local government administrators and political office holders against diversion of agricultural equipment procured for farmers in the state Governor Bello who gave the warning in Lokoja on Sunday while commissioning agricultural equipment worth several millions of naira and unveiling the confluence rice , said the procurement of the […]
In a bid to boost Nigeria’s recuperating economy and create more jobs, a lot of Russian investors have signified interest in bringing their companies to the country in Power Agriculture Solid Mineral sectors.. The Russian Ambassador to Nigeria, Nikolay Udovichenko, made the disclosure during a press briefing with select journalists in Abuja recently. The envoy […]
Africa’s wealthiest man, Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote, is planning to invest in Malawi’s agriculture sector through establishment of a fertilizer production company in the country. The development was disclosed at Kamuzu Palace in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe Tuesday by Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Malawi designate, retired Brigadier General Stanely Diriyai, after he had presented his letters of […]
Nigeria Economic Recovery is one of the key mandates of Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning is to render policy advice to Federal Government on national development and national plans. The ministry is expected to advise government in all aspects of national development and design national plans in form of long, medium and short […]
The Federal Government has restated its commitment to conserving its foreign exchange through an agricultural revolution, by providing cheap funding of about five per cent to farmers. This position was made known on Thursday by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, in his remarks at the launch of MITROS […]
The Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has unveiled the ” Confluence Rice “, a locally made rice in the state, saying the development was in line with the agricultural revolution programme of the government. He said with the move, Kogi state has joined the class of rice producing states that were striving to make […]
Ogun State has joined rice producing states with the launch of its Mission To Rebuild Ogun State, MITROS, Ofada rice. Not less than 110,000 bags of Ofada rice from the three mills machines installed across the three senatorial districts of the state were unveiled. The launch attracted the Presidential Task Force on Agricultural Commodities and […]