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“It is safe to say we can secure a bumpy grain harvest this year,” Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Changfu told Xinhua in an interview. China is expected to reap at least 600 billion kg of autumn grain this year, Han said, adding that the output and inventory of wheat and rice will […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance 10-Oct-18 Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Anchau Market, Kaduna State. Beans (White) 100Kg 27,000 Tier 730 299 27,000 730 0 0 Garri (White) 50Kg 16,000 – – 13,500 410 2500 – Groundnut (Edible) 120Kg 18,000 […]
[File] Governor of the host state, Abiola Ajimobi.Photo: Twitter / AAAjimobi The Oyo state government said its investment summit in agriculture is expected to bridge the gap between farmers, agricultural producers, agricultural sectors, research institutes, government, agricultural banks and private companies. Scheduled on Thursday and Friday on October 11 and 12, 2018 at the summit […]
In order to increase food security in the country, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, urged development partners and the private sector to work closely with the government at all levels to combat hunger, extreme poverty and malnutrition. The head of Ogbe did it yesterday in Abuja during a sensitization walk […]
Maduka, who said when he visited the Nigeria News Agency on Tuesday in Lagos, said this would be so because the average Nigerian family still had at least three children, and this made the population continue to soar. Cosmas Maduka, CEO of the Coscharis Group of Companies, said that people who invested in agriculture will […]
FAO’s latest forecast for global cereal production in 2018 has been raised by 3 million tonnes since the previous report in September, to 2 591 million tonnes; still 63 million tonnes (2.4 percent) below last year’s record high. World wheat production in 2018 is forecast at 722.4 million tonnes, nearly unchanged from the previous month […]
Food market Bodija, Ibadan. The need to urgently amend the country's constitution to ensure the right to food and food security in the country cannot be overestimated. According to the President of the Farm and Infrastructure Foundation of Professor Gbolagade Ayuola, the human right to food is inviolable and should not be considered as people's […]
Okina gynika Abuja – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has urged the federal government to add value to Nigeria’s agricultural products in order to achieve zero hunger by 2030. Mr. Sufyan Koroma, a representative of the FAO country, phoned Abuja on Tuesday for a walk organized to commemorate World Food […]
Stakeholders at a conference in Abuja on Tuesday called on the federal government to immediately establish a Conflict and Conflict Resolution Commission to address the lingering crisis of shepherd farmers in the country. They also urged the government to increase security measures so that both farmers and shepherds feel safe. However, they stated that the […]
Mr. Cosmas Maduka, Chief Executive Officer of the Coscharis Group of Companies, said that people who invested in agriculture will now become billionaires in Nigeria in the near future. Maduka, who said during a visit to the Nigeria News Agency on Tuesday in Lagos, said that this would be so because the average Nigerian family […]
Global agricultural food commodity prices fell in September due to growing inventories of key staples. The FAO Food Price Index declined 1.4 percent from August and is now 7.4 percent below its level during September 2017. The FAO Cereal Price Index dropped 2.8 percent, led by maize as expectations of a very large crop in […]
At least five million farmers in Nigeria will receive assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase their farming business. Dr. Osagi Aimiwou, the leader of the “Basing the Future of Agrarian Policy in Nigeria” group, became aware of this during a meeting with stakeholders at the National Agency for Agricultural […]
Inka Odumakin, Afenifere advertising secretary. Afenifer condemned the National Leader of the Progressive Congress (BTR), Bola Tinuba, for advising the federal government to convert unused land into pastures. Tinubu said that the shepherd / farmers crisis was caused not by religious or political differences, but by a lack of water. Speaking at a peaceful forum, […]
India raised the price at which it buys new-season wheat from local farmers by 105 rupees or 6 percent, the farm minister said on Wednesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to defuse discontent among farmers ahead of elections in 2019. The revised purchase price of 1,840 rupees ($25.09) per 100 kg for 2019 compares […]
Bola Ahmed Tinubu The National Leader of the Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, said that the shepherds / farmers crisis was caused not by religious or political differences, but by the lack of water. Speaking at a peaceful forum, the former governor of Lagos asked the government to immediately transfer unused land to […]