Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has called on the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), to join the campaign for establishment of ranches in the country. Ortom, represented by the Commissioner of Education, Science and Technology, Professor Dennis Ityavyar, made the appeal while opening the 2017 annual international convention of the association in Makurdi, yesterday. “We […]
Young farmers on the platform of Fresh and Young Brains Development Initiative yesterday launched the National Youth Manifesto on Agriculture for Nigeria. CEO and Founder of the Initiative,Barr. Nkiruka Nnaemego said the Youth Manifesto developed in 2013 would be a national Blueprint to guide government and her partners on the felt needs and aspirations of […]
Forty thousand millionaires have been created from the ranks of ordinary people in Kebbi State through agriculture since the coming of the present administration two years ago. This was disclosed by Audu Ogbe, the minister of agriculture in an exclusive interview with our correspondent. He also disclosed that 68 per cent of those who went […]
Suliman Arigbaba, Executive Secretary, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) Resource Centre, a non-governmental organisation, has blamed youth agitations partly on food scarcity in the country. Arigbaba who spoke with The Nation in Lagos also observed that a greater number of the youths in the African sub-region were involved in crimes ranging from kidnapping, armed […]
Says His Involvement In Politics Has Been Beneficial Nigeria Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has said Nigeria has done, so much for him so much that his conscience continually prods him to use all his energy to serve the country. Speaking in Abuja, Ogbeh said his involvement in politics for more […]
President Robert Mugabe continues to tighten the screws on the remaining white farmers as government has come up with a potentially discriminatory policy which limits their leases to just five years while black counterparts will enjoy 99-year long leases. This comes 17 years after the violent and unplanned land reform programme which saw the majority […]
Hinges Importance Of Soil To Food Security To solve the challenges of food and nutrition security, stakeholders in food production have called on the Federal Government to formulate policies that will make companies and individuals importing foods into Nigeria to contribute to research funding as part of ways to discourage food importation. Professor of Soil […]
Agrobusiness Times, Nigeria’s premier online medium on agriculture and its related businesses has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cooman Event Servi ce, CEMS, for the International Agro Chemical and Agro Equipment Expo, West Africa, (NIAA EXPO WEST AFRICA) scheduled for January 16-18, 2018, at the prestigious Abuja International Conference Centre, FCT Abuja, Nigeria, […]
Farm experts drawn from the diverse field of the country’s agricultural value chain rose from a two-day meeting, at the Reiz continental hotel Abuja, on Tuesday, hearing how a German development initiative, the Green Innovations Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector in Nigeria, has trained over 27,000 farmers and is setting sail to create […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB)’s new initiative Technologies for African Agriculture initiative will produce 513 million tonnes of additional food across Africa. It will also lift nearly 250 million Africans out of poverty by 2025. A statement from the bank said 25 African countries have written letters, confirming their interest and readiness to participate in […]
Nigeria has saved over N216 billion from the importation of rice alone from Thailand and other countries since the nation’s domestic mass production flooded the markets under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP). Prince Niyi Akenzua, the Executive Director, Risk Management and Finance, Bank of Agriculture (BOA) disclosed on Thursday in Ibadan when he visited Gov. […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday critised the regime of Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, for allegedly scuttling the progress made by the country to be self-sufficient in rice production. Obasanjo recalled that in 1979 when he handed over power as military Head of State, the country was almost achieving self- sufficiency in the production, […]
The Kogi Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Kehinde Oloruntoba, has called on Nigerians to fast-track efforts to diversify the nation’s economy through agriculture via their adoption of gender-sensitive agricultural practices. Oloruntoba made the call on Thursday in Lokoja at the meeting of the Core Delivery Team (CDT) of the State Partnership for Agriculture (SPA) on “Agricultural […]
As part of the nation’s new agricultural revolution project, the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) and 16 foreign partners will provide farmers in 774 Local Government Areas (LGAs) with 43,590 equipment under a Comprehensive Local Agricultural Plan (C-LAP) . The new policy is designed to increase food production and boost farmers’ access to […]
Seychelles is the world’s most vegetarian-friendly country, according to a new Global Vegetarian Index.The rankings were conducted by Oliver’s Travels, an online villa booking website. The index was calculated based on countries’ annual meat consumption per person, the number of vegetarian restaurants and the number of vegetarian restaurants in relation to population size. Seychelles, an […]