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A 72-year-old grandmother, Victoria Akinseye, was in tears as she displayed the torn under wears she wore the day suspected herdsmen took turns to rape her on her farm in Ore, Odigbo council area of Ondo State. Victoria said the herdsmen had done the unthinkable and would reap the fruit of their wickedness to her. […]
A coalition of all youths in Olokoro clan, comprising of fifteen autonomous communities is set to benefit from the Nigerian agricultural industry using fish farming as a model. This is because fish farming in Nigeria is important as one of the most prominent aspects of the Nigerian Agricultural Industry with over sixty percent of the […]
Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe, on Friday implored banks to slash their lending rates to farmers in order to boost agricultural productivity in the country. “We pray for banks to lower their interest rates because in a sense, they are an inhibition to progress and development,” Mugabe said while opening the annual Harare Agriculture Show. Zimbabwe’s […]
I will start with a question to jog your mind. How many ways can you vaccinate chicken? Last week, my chicks turned nine weeks and it was time to administer the fowl typhoid intramuscular (IM) injection as per the recommended schedule (Seeds of Gold, July 22). Please, don’t confuse fowl typhoid with fowl pox vaccine […]
Production of exotic vegetables and fresh farm produce are some of the key ways the Taraba state government has embarked on, as a means of using agriculture to diversify its economy. Governor Darius Ishaku disclosed this at the launch of Taraba Vegetables Farm by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during a one-day state visit where some […]
Agribank will provide free mentorships to farmers in order to facilitate transferring skills and knowledge. In a statement to the media yesterday, Agribank’s manager for Agricultural Advisory Services Division, Elaine Smith said the mentorship programme will be offered to identified farmers on condition they sign a mentorship and training agreement. Smith said the farmers would […]
Buy Uganda Build Uganda (BUBU) is a new magazine that made its first street appearance only this August. Your columnist’s first impression of BUBU is that it is out to persuade Ugandans to engage in practical patriotism by prioritising Ugandan goods and enterprises that promote national economic development. It has an interesting commentary about the […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that agriculture is a sure path through which Nigeria would exit the current economic recession its currently in. Speaking in Jalingo, the state capital, thursday while inaugurating the multi-billion naira Agro Green House Farm constructed by the Governor Darius Ishaku administration, the vice president stated that agriculture has the […]
The national President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria AFAN, Kabir Ibrahim said farmers in Nigeria have not had it so good in the aspects of production and marketing of farm produce since the last twenty years like its experiencing now. He made the revelation in an interview with TVC News Katsina Correspondent. He said […]
Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo has urged ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to focus its efforts on support for agriculture, which is the easiest way to provide jobs for the young people of the region. Speaking at the opening of 15th ordinary meeting of the Board of Governors of EBID in Abuja on […]
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), says it is working to access the $30 billion agricultural grant contributed by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other donor agencies for rice production in Africa. National President of the association, Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday that the association had submitted a template […]
FADAMA III AFII project in Yobe state has trained agricultural specialists on modern agricultural extension and data capturing to improve the livelihood of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who have returned to farming in the liberated communities. Speaking during the closure of a three-day workshop organised by project in Damaturu, the state coordinator, Musa Garba, said […]
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has said it will soon engage 10,000 youths to nurse two million dates and palm oil tree farming in the country. The Director-General of NDE, Dr. Nasiru Argungu, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Sokoto. Argungu said that the scheme was part of the […]
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Wednesday says the state is ready to grant land and tax incentives to investors, to revolutionise agriculture and promote investments in various sectors. Ganduje said this at the 2017 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos with the theme “African Business: Penetrating through Institution […]
Nigeria’s average import bill in the first five months of 2017 reached about N588.1 billion per month. This is in contrast to what it was in 2005 when oil prices was about $50 per barrel for an extended period of time, and monthly average import bill was N12.4 billion. Governor of the Central Bank of […]