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The Nigeria Rice Farmers Association (RIFAN) in Katsina has encouraged its members, who have benefited from the first phase of the Anchor Borrowings Program (ABP) to repay loans. The chairman of RIFAN, Alhaji Shuaibu Wakili, called in an interview with the Nigeria news agency (NAN) in Daura on Tuesday. The Nigeria News Agency (NAN) reports […]
Trader Moni is an initiative to empower small traders. Image: Twitter / Laolu Akande The federal government issued loans around N15.183bn across the country through the TraderMoni scheme, said vice president Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo noted this on Monday in Abuja during the 9th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum, held in the old Banquet Hall of the […]
The new North American trade deal gives U.S. wheat easier access to Canada but it is not expected to result in a large influx of U.S. wheat. The agreement allows U.S. wheat to be treated the same as Canadian wheat in the Canadian grain grading system. Previously, U.S. wheat was downgraded automatically. The chair of […]
Nuhu Ribadu Photo: Herald Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Nuhu Ribadu insisted that President Muhammad Bukhari did not support the killing of Nigerians by the shepherds Fulani. Speaking Monday at the conflict resolution forum, a former candidate for the governor of Hadamada said that crises between farmers and shepherds were […]
Women farmers working on the farm SOME women farmers, including a widow in the Pezepa community on the council of the district government of Bwari, appealed to the FCT administration to support them in microcredit to develop their farming business, since this can only guarantee abundant food production. Women who appealed in separate interviews with […]
Trader Moni is an initiative to empower small traders. Image: Twitter / Laolu Akande The federal government issued loans around N15.183bn across the country through the TraderMoni scheme, said vice president Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo noted this on Monday in Abuja during the 9th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum, held in the old Banquet Hall of the […]
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal to hike the minimum support price (MSP) for rabi crops to one and a half times of the production cost as was promised in the Budget 2018. The MSP hike in rabi crop follows a similar hike approved for Kharif crops earlier. The cabinet has approved wheat […]
Agriculture constitutes the largest sector of Pakistan’s economy and the majority of the population depends on it. It contributes about 24 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), accounts for half of the country’s employed labor force, and is the largest source of foreign exchange earnings. It feeds the whole rural and urban populations of Pakistan. […]
Aminu Tambuval. Photo: Twitter / SokotoGovtHouse IFAD distributes cash: The support program of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Climate Change Adaptation and Agribusiness Support IFAD-CASP on Sunday distributed cash and pet to five farmers in Sokoto. Presenting the points to the beneficiaries, the Governor Aminu Tambuval of Sokoto described the IFAD as a formidable […]
India’s cabinet is set to raise the state-mandated prices for winter-sown crops such as wheat later on Wednesday, two government sources said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to tackle rising discontent among farmers amid a price slump. The government announces minimum support prices (MSPs) for most crops yearly to set a benchmark, although state […]
According to the European Commission, in the current marketing year the EU reduced compared to the corresponding period of the previous season, the export of wheat by 32%, from 5.7 to 3.9 million tons, but increased its imports by 24% (from 758 to 938 thousand tons. Export of soft wheat in comparison with the previous […]
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar disputes the incumbent Muhammad Bukhari to preside in Nigeria early next year after defeating the opposition party of democratic nations, the AFP correspondent reports on a vote on Sunday. The 71-year-old Abubakar won 1,532 votes, beating his main rival, Aminu Tambuval, the governor of North Sokoto, who scored 693 votes at […]
WHEAT IMPORTS by flour millers are expected to be little changed this year with demand for wheat products tempered by the commodity’s high price on world markets. “I can project that imports will be flat this year at 2.6 million metric tons (MT) same as last year’s total,” Philippine Association of Flour Millers, Inc. executive […]
Multi Trex Integrated Foods Plant, Ibadan-Lagos Expressway PHOTO: Femi Ibirogba • 5% cocoa – 140 billion dollars accounted for Africa, despite 70% of world production• Nigeria loses $ 100 billion for the impossibility of exporting large-scale products More than 84,000 Nigerians have lost jobs in the cocoa pulp industry, while about 16 companies have grown […]
So far, only a few Nigerians have embraced a greenhouse, perhaps because of its cost. But today, Wells Hosa GreenHouse Farm Limited, located in the state of Edo, is showing the way for year-round farming in Nigeria. Wells Hosa GreenHouse, owned by Captain Idahose Wells Okunbor (retd), last month, began her first harvest of her […]