Experts at the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) Ibadan, have explored the many benefits of mushrooms and its cultivation, saying it contributes to human livelihood economically, nutritionally and medicinally. The experts highlighted the importance of mushrooms in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in the Oyo State capital. A Botanist, Dr Olufunmi […]
The Sokoto State Government says it plans to distribute 15,000 bags of rice seedlings and 14, 000 water pumping machines to dry season farmers in the state. Alhaji Umaru Nagwari, the Commissioner for Agriculture, spoke on Tuesday in Sokoto, when he appeared before the State House of Assembly Committee on Agriculture to defend the ministry’s […]
Cocoa grinders in Cote d’Ivoire are holding off on newinvestments after military and social unrest this month,potentially denting government plans to boost processing of the commodity in the world’s top Cote d’Ivoire has emerged from a 2002- 011 political crisis as one of the world’s fastest growing economies, attracting foreign investment into everything from the […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched two new agribusiness partnerships with Chi Farms and Niji Foods. The event highlighted USAID’s agricultural and private sector strategy using partnerships with government, local organizations and private industry to develop the Nigerian agriculture sector. Representatives from the federal government attended the event to highlight their commitment […]
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture says it will distribute agricultural inputs to 140,000 dry season rice farmers in Jigawa through the 2016/2017 Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GEES). The Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS) represents policy and pragmatic shift within the existing Fertilizer Market Stabilization Programme. It provides series of incentives to encourage the critical actors […]
The Zamfara government has registered over 200 women farmers associations across the state for the 2017 dry season rice farming. The Special Adviser to the state governor on Zamfara State Comprehensive Agricultural Revolution Program (ZACAREP), Alhaji Aminu Dankwangila, disclosed this while speaking to newsmen on Monday in Gusau. He said that the registration was done […]
“It gives me great joy to somehow help out a little in improving Agriculture in Africa. Though I love my country, but it is not my life, my life is to be working in a country like Nigeria, my life is to be working in Africa to help the farmers of Africa.”
The Federal Government says it has henceforth banned the admission of students who do not have farming interests into its Universities of Agriculture. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said this at a stakeholders meeting with registrars and pro-Chancellors of the universities in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the decision was […]
Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has urged Nigerian youths to take advantage of the Agriculture Finance Bill recently passed by the 8th Senate to further their engagements in agriculture business. In a statement by his Special Assistant, Print Media, Chuks Okocha, Saraki expressed happiness that youths have taken to agriculture as a means of livelihood […]
STAR Ultra Deep Petroleum Limited, a subsidiary of Chevron Nigeria has expressed its commitment to enhance Agricultural business in Nigeria, just as it recently sponsored the training of 50 youths in Oyo State for a three months course at the OFFERCentre institute of Agriculture, Oluponna, Osun State. This was disclosed by the Chairman, Star Ultra […]
Project Director of Lagos State Agricultural Empowerment Training Scheme, Mr Oluwaseyi Bamigbade, on Monday said over two million people were being targeted for the training in the South- West geo- political zone of the country, noting that this was part of measures to ensure that there was food security in the country. Bamigbade disclosed this […]
Kortomi revealed that the clearing of the typha-grass would go a long way to creating millions of job for farmers and fishermen inhabiting along the wetland. The Federal government, through ecological office, Ministry of environment, has commenced dredging of Typha grass that has taken over Hadeijia- Jama`are river basin, along Nguru wetland, in Yobe state. […]
The President, Association of Systems Management Consultants, Mazi Coleman Obasi, has said the Federal Government is losing so much by not implementing the cassava bread initiative. The initiative was designed to achieve about 20 per cent cassava flour in bread. He said if the government had implemented the policy, the country would have saved significant […]
The lifeless bodies of two herdsmen declared missing last week were reportedly discovered at a bush around Ossissa community, Ndokwa East Local Government Area, Delta State, by police. The Police Public Relations Officer of the state command, DSP Andrew Aniamaka, told Vanguard that the corpses were found on Saturday, three days after they were declared […]
It has emerged that the four victims of Epe farm kidnap, who were released weekend, were made to hold prayer sessions for the success of their abductors’ kidnapping business. Also, the negotiator, whose fiancée was the only female among the victims, was told to marry her or they would kidnap her again in their next […]