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There is growing anxiety in Jigawa State over the fear that the state may run short of maize produce this year. The fear is as a result of flood disaster that destroyed 90 percent of expected maize output in the state. Our correspondent reports that over 6,000 hectares of maize farmland were destroyed in the […]
An Agricultural expert, Mr Ismail Olawale has said the closure of Nigeria`s borders will engender the development of the nation`s agricultural sector. Olawale, a fellow at the Nigerian Agriculture and Extension Liaison Service (NAERLS) expressed the view in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. He said that the […]
Today, 8 October, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Kalambo Station – located in South-Kivu Province, in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo – will be named “The President Olusegun Obasanjo Research Campus” by His Excellency the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mr. Felix Tshisekedi Tshilombo. The efforts of this […]
Perhaps, unimpressed by the performance of the state’s Ministry of Agriculture, the governor of Jigawa State, Muhammad Badaru, did not name a commissioner or a permanent secretary for the ministry as he announced his new cabinet on Monday. The new cabinet is made of 11 commissioners and 15 special advisers. The omission comes as a […]
Rural farmers do not have access to quality seeds to improve farm yield in Nigeria because most of the 300 seed companies and 50 seed inspectors in the country are not functioning. A seed expert, Sadi Dansadau, said this in an interview with Premium Times on Thursday. He said only about 75 seed companies are […]
The Nigerian Navy on Tesday handed over to the Federal Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, four arrested fishing trawlers, 52 crew members and three foreigners over suspected illegal fishing activities, on the Brass River in Bayelsa State. The four vessels, named: Star Shrimpers 3, Cosmos 1, Trade Wind and ORC VII, with the 52 crew […]
In a bid to curb the wastages experienced by Nigerian farmers and encourage young people to embrace agriculture, an online Farmers’ Market has been launched to link farmers directly with buyers. The platform, which is targeted at helping farmers from even the remotest of villages to get their goods across to buyers, is a platform […]
Chukwudum, appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to consider re-opening the borders for legitimate trade to ease the gradual economic suffocation in the country. The Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF), a pan-Igbo socio-political group, has decried economic hardship being faced by Nigerians, especially traders nationwide, due to the recent border closure. The President of NUF, Mr Augustine […]
The federal government has introduced “help-line technology” to deliver extension services to Nigerian farmers. The minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, made this known on Tuesday during the launching of the programme at the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. READ MORE: DG NBMA Harps On Capacity Strengthening For National […]
MM Beto rice mill began production in Malumfashi, Katsina State, with a target of displacing foreign rice in the state and to some extent the country at large. Since early 2017, there has been the establishment of modern rice mills in Funtua area but poor electricity supply and inadequate supply of paddy rice threatened full […]
• Say border closure boosts capacity A few weeks ago, President Muhammadu Buhari, in an unprecedented move, shut down the nation’s borders as efforts by the Nigeria Customs to curtail cross-border smuggling activities, which is badly affecting rice farmers and processors, particularly, appeared fruitless. The closure led to increased activities in the local rice industry […]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), assisted Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) for rice and cassava, says the programme has been extended for three more years to accommodate dry season farming. Dr Mathew Ahmed, the state Coordinator of the programme made this known, during the VCDP-Additional Financing (AF) state sensitisation and mobilisation in Minna. […]
-The United State has honoured a farmer who depends on less soil to produce fresh fruits and vegetable. -She uses mechanism known as hydroponics which does not need soil to grow crops – -The mechanism helps people without land access to get food for survival United States has honoured a Nigerian national doing something extraordinary […]
It was all excitement at Oregun Junior High School in Ikeja recently when Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, paid an early morning visit to the school. The stopover was impromptu and short, but it gave the governor the opportunity to have first-hand experience about operational procedures in state-owned schools. Sanwo-Olu, who was returning from […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has advocated that the concerns of young entrepreneurs, startups, small traders, millions at the bottom of the economic value chain, the millions at the bottom of the pyramid, those who sell from their trays and tabletops all over the markets in our country must be addressed. He said this when he […]