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[ad_1] Program Manager of the Abia State Agricultural Development Programme (ADP), Chief Israel Amanze has predicted that the Central Bank of Nigeria Maize Anchor Borrowers Program (CMABP) would inject over N1b into the state’s economy this year. According to him, this would be generated from maize farming for which the CBN loan was approved for 7,060 members of the state Maize Association […]

[ad_1] Says 350,000 Job Lost To Maize Price Hike, Others Poultry farmers in Ogun State have bemoaned what they termed “arbitrary increase” in the price of maize and other essential ingredients used in poultry feed production, saying the industry is facing imminent collapse. According to the Chairman, Poultry Association of Nigeria, Ogun State (PANOG), Mrs. […]

[ad_1]  Oba Dokun Thompson, the Oloni of Eti-Oni and the Chairman Eti-Oni Development Group, an expert in the cocoa and chocolate industry, in this interview with Seyi Taiwo-Oguntuase, spoke on the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Cocoa and chocolate industry. He also spoke on the need for Nigeria and other West African countries […]

[ad_1] The federal government has said it will start up a programme, “The Green Imperative”, which will lead to the establishment of 632 farm mechanisation centres in the country. The government said the mechanisation centres will support food production in all the local government areas of the country so as to boost the nation’s food […]

[ad_1] A firm, OCP Africa’s has disclosed that not less than 10,000 farmers will benefit from fertilizers as palliatives in Sokoto State. The palliative plan according to the firm is to support smallholder farmers to cushion the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuring food security for all. Meanwhile, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto […]

[ad_1] As part of measures to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on farmers, Lagos State government has donated 15 trailers of 50kg bags of maize to Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, Lagos chapter. The donation was distributed through the Lagos State Agriculture Development Authority in Oko-Oba, Agege. Speaking at the presentation, Programme Manager […]

[ad_1] The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on global economy and Nigeria is not exempted. The economy is just emerging from the impact of three months of total inactivity. The post ‘To grow Nigeria’s non-oil export, policy makers must walk the talk’ appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News . Read Original Report […]

[ad_1] Enugu – Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has inaugurated the maiden rice seed multiplication farm, a brainchild of Enugu State Graduate Farmers (ESGF) group. Speaking on Friday in Enugu, Ugwuanyi said during the event that the presence of a rice seed multiplication firm to serve thousands of rice farmers in the state was overdue. […]

[ad_1] Alhaji Sabo Nanono The distribution of farm inputs was made by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono, at the Ministry’s Warehouse at Okene road, Lokoja in Kogi State as contained in a statement signed by the Director, Information, Theodore Ogaziechi, which include a variety of seeds; cashew, sesame, soybeans, and tomatoes. […]

[ad_1] The federal government says it is supporting smallholder farmers through their various associations and cooperatives with 38,142KG of improved cashew seeds for distribution to 3,798 of cashew farmers across the country. The Minister of Agricultural and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono, stated this on Thursday when he flagged off an exercise in Kogi State. He […]

[ad_1] No fewer than 10,000 smallholder farmers in Sokoto State will get subsidised fertiliser from OCP Africa, a company engaged in production and global exportation of phosphate-based fertiliser in Nigeria. The firm’s Area Commercial Manager, Mr Adam Idris, made this known at the inauguration of the fertiliser subsidy programme in Wurno Local Government rea of […]

[ad_1] In June, global food commodity prices rose for the first time since the beginning of the year driven primarily by a ‘rebound’ in vegetable oils, sugar and dairy quotations, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said. It, however, said in the cereal and meat markets, most prices remained under downward pressure amid market […]

[ad_1] LAGOS  – Farmers in the poultry and aquaculture industries in the country have continued to lament the effect of the lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic since March which according to them is having negative effects of their various businesses.  Some of the farmers and investors also lamented the further closure of the hospitality […]