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[ad_1] Agriculture The Federal Government has engaged over 30,000 youths across the country in agricultural extension services, soil mapping and soil testing, as part of efforts aimed at realising food security and job creation. The Executive Director, National Agricultural Development Agency (NALDA), Paul Ikonne, disclosed this while unveiling plans of the Federal Government during a monthly […]
[ad_1] Photo: EPA/STR Prospective beneficiaries of the Ogun State Cotton Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) are gradually running out of patience, due to the inactivity of the handlers in the state. For 11 months now, the registered farmers, especially youths under the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), who have been shortlisted and enlisted for the […]
[ad_1] Still basking in the euphoria of the success recorded in 2020, the Lagos State Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project has promised to establish 1,465 businesses for Women and Youth Empowerment Programme (WYEP) and the People with Disabilities and Special Needs (PWDSN) across the state this year. The State Project Coordinator […]
[ad_1] Asma Mirza processes ginger, honey, okro and more. Like many farmers in Kaduna State, Asma Mirza, has been away from the farm because of the insecurity in the state. Ms Mirza had been cultivating rice for a while but stopped after the rainy season in 2018 when insecurity in the state made it difficult […]
[ad_1] Farmers in Kano have unanimously called for banning of Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs because of the side effect they have on their farming system, health and on the environment. The farmers made the call during a farmers’ dialogue meeting organized by Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF on food and farming system, in Kwankwaso […]
[ad_1] Activist and former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, Comrade Shehu Sani has called on governors of northern states to take urgent steps to resolve the Fulani-Herders crisis. He said while the recent meeting between Southwest governors and the cattle dealer’s group, Miyetti Allah was a good step aimed at […]
[ad_1] Farmers in Ilorin have called on the Kwara Government for urgent intervention over what he described as indiscriminate bush burning in parts of the state. The farmers who expressed worry amidst consistent bush burning in the state spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday, in separate interviews. Mr Babatunde […]
[ad_1] Man as a work in progress is both a subject and object of cultivation. There is no culture without cultivation both in its figurative and literal senses. As habitual beings, our repeated actions create a pattern that influences and informs our default perspective to reality. This disposition comes by the cultivation of one’s life […]
[ad_1] The suspension was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic disruption of 2020. Nigeria suspended its plan to begin exporting sorghum to the United Kingdom in 2020, as a result of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the country representative of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hakeem Ajeigbe, has said. […]
[ad_1] The suspension was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic disruption of 2020. Nigeria suspended its plan to begin exporting sorghum to the United Kingdom in 2020, as a result of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the country representative of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hakeem Ajeigbe, has said. […]
[ad_1] Dutch court orders Shell to pay Nigerian farmers over oil spills Details shortly… [AFP] [ad_2] Source: Vanguard News
The Federal Government of Nigeria and the International Fund for Agricultural Development of the United Nations (IFAD) are working together to lessen the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small-scale farmers’ activities and domestic food supply in northeastern states of Nigeria The government will procure 80 metric tons of seed – maise, rice and vegetables […]
VTR Bio-Tech, a bio-technological enterprise offering feed additive bioengineering products and technical services for poultry, swine, ruminant and aquaculture sectors, plans to further develop the African market and look for distributors in African countries The company’s products mainly include Phytase, Xylanase, Protease, Mannanase and Glyceryl Tributyrate, etc. (Image source: VTR Bio-Tech) Found in 1991, VTR […]
[ad_1] THE Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, yesterday, called on the South-West governors to provide ranches for herdsmen before banning open grazing, to avoid further crisis, warning that outright banning of open grazing, without an alternative for herdsmen, was an invitation to greater disaster. But the remarks by the Sharia Council, however, generated angry […]
[ad_1] The International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, Thursday, disclosed the provision of $900, 000 grant to support small-scale farmers in seven northern States as a measure to cushion the impact of the novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic. The grant is the first through IFAD’s Rural Poor Stimulus Facility, RPSF, as contained in a statement issued, […]