The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has finalised plans to introduce a new employment creation scheme known as the Sustainable Agricultural Development Training Scheme (SADTS). The scheme which will be pilot-tested in 19 states of the federation and the FCT is to enhance food production, employment and wealth creation. The Sustainable Agriculture Development Training Scheme […]
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) yesterday said it has inducted the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) into its Freedom of Information (FOI) Hall of Shame. In a statement to LEADERSHIP yesterday signed by the Programme Manager, Freedom of Information, Ridwan Sulaimon, it said the indictment of the institution is for its failure […]
48 hours to the implementation of the November 1st Benue Anti-open Grazing Law, the NKST Universal Reformed Christian Church worldwide has reaffirmed its support in the implementation of the law. This was made known by the leadership of the NKST worldwide Rev. Ayohol Ate and the State chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria CAN rev.Akpen […]
Former head of state, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar has decried the economic effect of herdsmen and farmers clashes, saying Nigeria has lost $13.7 billion within one year. He stated this at a one-day forum on farmer-herder relations in Nigeria in Minna, Niger State, yesterday. He said the losses were recorded in the clashes in Benue, Kaduna, […]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government has reportedly continued to “tighten the screws” on the remaining white farmers as it came up with a somewhat “discriminatory policy” that “limits their leases to just five years while their black counterparts will enjoy 99-year-long leases”. According to New Zimbabwe.com, lands minister Douglas Mombeshora said over the weekend that […]
The police in Adamawa have arrested 200 Cows for invading a farmland at Yolde-Pate in Yola South Local Government Area. Adamawa police spokesman, Othman Abubakar, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola that the incident occurred on Saturday. “In collaboration with the district and village heads in the area and timely intervention of […]
The cassava business is currently experiencing some difficulties as a result of misunderstanding between farmers and processors over pricing. Our correspondent gathered from farmers that many of them might end up making no gain on their cassava harvests this year going by the ridiculous amount the buyers were willing to pay for the produce. The […]
The University of Calabar (UNICAL) is seeking a N1.2 billion credit facility to revamp its ailing farm. Until it succumbed to neglect, the institution’s farm used to be a hub of agro-business activities. Today, it regrettably boasts of only a few animals and birds in dilapidated structures. “We are in the process of getting funds […]
In collaboration with the Federal Government and World Bank, Ogun State government says it has acquired agricultural equipment under the third National Fadama Development Project to increase food production in the state. The equipment include four tractors and implements, as well as a mini rice combined harvester. Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mrs. Adepeju Adebajo, […]
The Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, has said that British Airways has offered to fly Nigerian yams to the United Kingdom in a bid to sustain the export of the produce. Ogbeh, who disclosed this during the weekend in a chat with the press in Abuja, insisted that there was no alternative to exportation of […]
Managing Director of the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC), Folashade Joseph has disclosed that her agency is committed to forging appropriate partnerships with Deposit Money Banks in the fulfillment of their mandate through provision of appropriate risk management services to agricultural investors being financed by the banks. She disclosed this yesterday in Kaduna during a […]
The Nigerian Agriculture Quarantine Service, NAQS, has warned exporters to get phytosanitary certificate before exporting their produce to avoid rejection. The NAQS Coordinating Director, Dr. Vincent Isiegbe, who stated this in Abuja, said on a daily basis, the agency gets, at least five interception notices of Nigerian agricultural produce, which is not good for the […]
You have gone to the various exhibition stands and seen most of the technologies. What do you make of what you saw tested or on display? Each year I come here I get more excited because quite frankly, a revolution is taking place here and we are very happy to see it. You saw the […]
High Feed Cost, Irregular Prices Pose Serious Problem • Low Patronage Recorded Fish farmers are currently facing intense threat that might force them to go underground, as a result of serious challenges confronting the aquaculture industry. One of the factors attributed to this; according to The Guardian’s survey is the rising cost of fish […]
Dr Olugbenga Adeoluwa, National Coordinator, Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) Initiative in Nigeria, says stakeholders’ synergy in organic agriculture practice is key to the growth of the sector. Adeoluwa said this in an interview with newsmen on Saturday in Abuja. He said the initiative would always sponsor and encourage organic agriculture practitioners to come together and […]