The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Dr Akinwumi Adesina has said the bank through its Feed Africa Strategy, would invest $24 billion over the next 10 years to help drive the agricultural transformation of Africa. This he said is a 400 per cent increase in financing to the agricultural sector by the bank. […]
Some students in Ilorin have decried the sudden increase in price of garri, commonly referred to as “students’ food’.’ Some of the students expressed their concerns in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Saturday, in Ilorin. The students said it had become almost impossible to have a day’s meal with the […]
Chief Tayo Akingbolagun, the National President, Catfish Association of Nigeria (CAFAN) said Nigeria produced 370,000 metric tonnes of catfish in 2016. Akingbolagun spoke on Tuesday in Benin, during the association’s Annual General Meeting. Akingbolagun put the value of the 370,000 metric tonnes of fish at over N175 billion, adding that fish business contributed about 4.5 […]
Although, the commercial banks finance agricultural activities but their credits are urban based and so small that their impact cannot be felt in the rural areas where farming actually takes place With the recent focus of the Federal Government of Nigeria on diversification of the economy, Agriculture is being promoted in many quarters as the […]
Scientists at the University of Ilorin and their counterparts at Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), are developing an improved rice variety with potentials to prevent cancer. A report in the University of Ilorin Bulletin on Monday stated that this was the outcome of the collaboration between the two institutions for which a Memorandum of Understanding […]
Local farmers at the Igbodu/Isiwo area of Epe in Lagos State yesterday raised the alarm over the incessant kidnap attempts targeted at them in the past few months. As at the last count, the aggrieved farmers said over 50 of their colleagues have fallen victims to the antics of the kidnappers, who only release them […]
The Federal Government has acquired 110 rice milling machines to be installed in different parts of the country, between now and July, to boost rice production across the country. Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, confirmed this development on his Facebook page on Monday, in Abuja. The […]
Cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast have called off their strike in order to allow for negotiations with the authorities. This comes despite claims by farmers that they have not been paid for their crops since December last year. The farmers under the aegis of the National Agricultural Syndicate for Progress in Ivory Coast (SYNAP-CI) […]
The federal government will open the national grain reserves in the next two weeks if the prices of food continue to escalate, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has declared. He disclosed this at the weekend after inauguration of managements of the three Federal Universities of Agriculture at the ministry in Abuja. […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has assured that the $4.5bn that will come to the agriculture sector from the Chinese government as grant to Nigeria would be used to effectively boost agric mechanization even as he noted that the grant must be approached with caution. It would be recalled that […]
In line with the federal government ‘s directive on self sufficiency on rice and wheat, governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu has said compared to last year, 11 states have now joined in wheat production. The governor spoke to State House Correspondents after the acting President Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday met with the Presidential Task […]
Despite the fact that Nigeria is world’s largest producer of cassava, India has reportedly started importation of Garri into Nigeria market. There has been outrage among Nigerians after a lady, Ronke Aderionoye, allegedly spotted an pack of Garri imported from India in a Nigeria store. Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the world […]
A retired professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Ibadan, Emmanuel Lucas, says forests have the potentials to rescue Nigeria from economic recession. Lucas made the remark at the 39th annual conference of the Forestry Association of Nigeria (FAN) held in Ibadan with the theme “ Harnessing the Uniqueness of Forests for Sustainable […]
The South Sudanese government and humanitarian agencies have declared a famine in parts of the country, which has been devastated by three years of war. The announcement comes as international aid agencies are overwhelmed by catastrophes unfolding in South Sudan and three other countries. The United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan said […]
It’s a crying shame that Africa, with most of the world’s arable land and a large and growing workforce, spends $35bn a year importing food. As young African farmers get back to work transforming agriculture and “making farming sexy” this week, many of them will be feeling renewed drive after a conference in Kigali last […]