Barely three weeks after a community in Arochukwu council of Abia State was invaded and attacked by Fulani herdsmen, another community, Ozu Item in Bende council was again attacked with scores of farmers sustaining life threatening injuries. Crops worth several thousands of naira belonging to Ozu Item farmers were also destroyed by the herdsmen and […]
Kwara State Police Command, yesterday, said it has arrested six middle-aged rice harvesters, who killed their landlady, who owned a farm, and stole her 11 bags of rice. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olusola Amore, told journalists at the police headquarters that the deceased rice farmer, Mrs Florence Ede, had hired the six men to […]
The Director General of IITA, Nteranya Sanginga, has said that there would be negative consequences if Africa paid only lip service to agriculture, and failed to invest in the sector. Addressing members of the Board of Trustees of IITA and researchers during the 2016 Partnerships for Delivery (P4D) Week in Ibadan that ended on 25 […]
The Ebonyi Government says it anticipates bumper harvest of 350 metric tons of rice in the 2016 farming season. Gov. David Umahi expressed the hope at the inaugural National Agricultural Summit organised by the Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo Local Government Area of the State on Thursday. The governor, represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture and […]
Tourists from different parts of the world who are partaking in the first cocoa festival in Africa have converged on the Eti-Oni, the ancient town in Osun State that pioneered the production of cocoa in Nigeria over 120 years ago. The maiden edition of the cocoa festival which began on Sunday November 27 would come […]
The Federal Government, yesterday, flagged off the distribution of agriculture app smartphones to rice farmers across the country. The RICEADVICE smartphones distribution, which was done through the National Cereals Research Institute, NCRI, commenced with the training of 50 rice farmers extension officers on how to use the smartphones to obtain relevant information to boost rice […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Bodija Market, Oyo State. Drum Beans (Olotu) 100Kg 30,000 Congo 500 342 30,000 500 0 0 Garri (White) 60Kg 17,000 Congo 203 169 17,000 270 0 -67 Groundnut (Edible) 100Kg […]
The Federal government has been admonished to fulfill its pledge to compensate poultry farmers who lost their stock of birds during the avian influenza (bird flu) outbreaks of 2015-2016 in the country. Making the call yesterday President of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, Dr. Ayoola Oduntan, said as at November 2016, out of a […]
Benue State government will, this month, outlaw open grazing in any part of the state to stem unending herdsmen/farmers crisis. Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange, gave the indication yesterday when he hosted the leadership of the Movement Against Fulani Occupation, MAFO, in Makurdi. Ikyange, who said the House took into […]
What Leventis Foundation Nigeria Ltd spend on providing agricultural training for Nigerian youths yearly in their six agriculture schools across the country is within the region of N400 to N600 million, the Executive Director (ED), Hope Ovia Usieta, has revealed. Usieta, who disclosed this while speaking to LEADERSHIP at the foundation’s head office in Abuja […]
The chairman, Abuja chapter of the West Africa Aquaculture Productivity Initiative (WAAPI), a platform in the aquaculture industry which deals with the entire value chain, Albert Tever Best, has said that the major challenge in the fishery industry now is the price of fish feed. He said at a capacity building training for fish farmers […]
The decline in cotton production in Katsina State this year has resulted in high demand and price for the produce, Daily Trust can report. Over the years, farmers in the state have shifted to the cultivation of other crops like rice, soya bean, maize and sorghum for lack of improved cotton seed and low price […]
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Hussien Oloyede, of the newly licensed Summit University in Offa, Kwara State has declared that apart from imparting knowledge on their students, the institution will also engaged in mechanised farming to feed the people of the state. The VC disclosed this recently while speaking at a press conference to unfold the […]
Efforts to diversify the Bayelsa State economy beyond oil and Gas is on course, as the State Government has established an aqua-culture village, accommodating over 500 fish ponds, situated at Igbogene in the outskirts of the state capital. Efforts to diversify the Bayelsa State economy beyond oil and Gas is on course, as the State […]
An Egba High Chief and a popular businessman, Chief Salimon Ajayi, popularly known as Rantipe, was, yesterday, arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Isabo, Abeokuta, for allegedly fraudulently obtaining N105 million from a company, Alarab Properties, a subsidiary of Obasanjo Holdings Limited. Ajayi, who is also the Balogun of Ijemoland in Egbaland and […]