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As part of its economic empowerment agenda, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said it has disbursed a total of N366.39 billion for the execution of 465 projects under the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme, CACS, from 2009 to date. The Scheme, established to address the financing challenges of the entire value chain, such as production, […]
Nigeria’s premier online media outfit on agriculture, agribusiness and its related businesses, www.agrobusinessngr.com, has been endorsed by Global Exhibition & Business Services Limited, as one of its media partners for the upcoming Ecowas Agriculture, Agro-Allied & Technology Exhibition fare slated for October 7 th- 16 th, 2016, in Kaduna state, Nigeria. The Agro Exhibition, with […]
Sequel to the commitment of the Federal Government to diversify the nation’ s economy, create wealth, and to ensure food security across the country, Kaduna State will on Friday, October 7, 2016, host the maiden edition of the Ecowas Agriculture, Agro-Allied & Technology Exhibition. According to the Chairman organizing committee; Alhaji Bawa Garba, the […]
Soldiers at the weekend, allegedly destroyed farmlands at Iddo Sarki in Jiwa ward and beat up farmers who resisted the destruction of their only means of livelihood. The farmers who are indigenes of the Federal Capital Territory said their farmlands which the Army claims to have ownership have not been made known to them as […]
The ECOWAS has set up a working group to develop modalities to address clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the sub-region. Mr Marcel de Souza said this when he was presenting the Community Status Report at the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on Tuesday. “There is an initiative between ECOWAS […]
Various calls by the Government on the need for Nigerian youths to take to agriculture might go unheeded if the necessary information on how to access land and finance are not readily available. This was the position of the Assistant Pastor in charge of Lagos Province 48 of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor […]
A large scale rice farmer in Asaba, Mr. Raymos Guanah, on Sunday observed that demand for locally-produced rice was on the increase. Guanah, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Raymond Guanah Farms, Illah, near Asaba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba that such a positive development was heartwarming. He said […]
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, made the call during the Labour and Trade Ministerial Roundtable of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum at the State Department, Washington D.C. Ngige called for the reconsideration of the suspension of the import of Nigeria’s cocoa into the US as a way of […]
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State on Wednesday launched Rice Anchor Borrower’s programme, with a charge to every adult in the state to embark on farming of rice among other products. He also disclosed that the state had accessed N9 billion from the Central Bank of Nigeria as approved for the state by the Federal […]
Food handling and preservation processes in some of the nation’s oldest markets have become a major challenge for wellness and nutrition security in the country. It is estimated that about 50 per cent of perishable farm produce including fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers and about 30 per cent of food grains like maize, millet, rice […]
The Federal Government in collaboration with other policy makers and international agencies is determined to implement attractive agricultural policies that will entice and engage Nigerian youths to farming. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, implored Nigerian youths to return to commercial/mechanised agriculture in order to curb the looming hunger in the […]
The Food and Agriculture Writers Forum of Nigeria (FAWN), has viewed with deep concern the spiraling prices of food, increasing hunger and malnutrition arising from unfavourable investment climate and weak naira that has affected the agro-allied sector particularly. It has therefore, called on the Federal Government under President Buhari to consider modifying the operation of […]
Niger State Government has flagged off sales of N183 million worth of grains at 50 per cent subsidy, to reduce people’s hardship in the current economic recession. Speaking at the occasion on Saturday, Gov. Sani Bello of Niger, said that the intervention was coming against the persistent hike in prices of food items due to […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that in the effort to diversify the economy and create more jobs, his government has embarked on reviving all the 12 river basin authorities in the country. The river basins are: Anambra – Imo, Benin – Owena, Chad Basin, Cross River, Hadejia – Jama’are, Lower Benue, Lower Niger, Niger Delta, […]
The launch, in July this year, of a military operation code-named “Operation Harbin Kunama”, in Zamfara state as part of measures to battle cattle rustlers has provided succour to victims of banditry. Let me use this occasion to reiterate that government is determined more than ever before to deal decisively with any threat to the […]