CBN Pledge to Increase Credit Guarantee to Farmers
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed plan to increase its credit guarantee to small scale farmers through its Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF).
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed plan to increase its credit guarantee to small scale farmers through its Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF).
No fewer than 60 youths were trained in agriculture and vocational skills in Osun by Total Upstream Companies.
Against the background of Nigeria’s economic vulnerability, President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said the current efforts of the Federal Government at diversifying the economy to an agriculture-centred one remains the viable solution to creating a healthy economy.
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance 05-Dec-18 Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Bodija Market, Oyo State. Beans (White) 100Kg 24,000 Congo 400 299 25,500 420 -1500 -20 Garri (White) 100Kg 10,000 Congo 100 83 10,000 100 0 0 Groundnut (Edible) 100Kg 29,000 […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance 21-Nov-18 Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Dawanau Market, Kano State. Beans (White) 100Kg 24,400 Tier 560 230 26,000 600 -1600 -40 Garri (White) 60Kg 6,940 Tier 246 132 6,800 240 140 6 Groundnut (Edible) 100Kg 21,200 […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance 14-Nov-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 26,000 Tier 710 291 26,000 710 0 0 Garri (White) 50Kg 15,000 Tier 360 217 – 360 – 0 Groundnut (Edible) 120Kg 19,000 […]
Market Commodity Wholesale Retail Last Week Variance 07-Nov-18 Measure Price(N) Measure Price(N) P/Kg(N) W(N) R(N) W(N) R(N) Dawanau Market, Kano State. Beans (White) 100Kg 26,000 Tier 567 232 26,000 550 0 17 Garri (White) 60Kg 6,800 Tier 240 129 6,800 240 0 0 Groundnut (Edible) 100Kg 24,000 […]
“Government should lift the ban on GMOs to enable farmers reap the benefits of this Technology”
The Ambassador of Japan to Nigeria, His Excellency Yutaka Kikuta, on 17 October paid a courtesy visit to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)Headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria to meet with senior IITA management.
NBMA’S GM LAB: The Senate Committee on Environment has lauded the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) over its modern state-of-the-art Genetic Modification (GM) Detection and Analysis Laboratory.
Innovations: Come 8 November 2018, ARRIGONI S.p.A., a leading designer and manufacturer of protective screens for agriculture, will be at EIMA 2018 (hall 34, stand B3) with a number of big innovations.
By Jim Lawson Moses In recent times, because of the renewed clamor by government for Nigerians to return to agriculture, and efforts to get it right, government has been making farm inputs available to farmers across the nation either as seeds or equipment. But despite this many deliberate attempts to yield meaningful results, […]
Smallholder farmer shave secured a deal to supply maize to major buyers, including agro-processing firms, which effectively contribute to addressing the challenge of lack of access to formal markets that has troubled farmers for long.
Grass Growth: Blistering heat and a lack of rainfall in northern and central Europe has caused the region’s worst drought in two decades, putting pressure on yields, prices and fodder supplies.
Snake Rearing: Abubakar Ballah, the Officer-in-Charge of Snakebite Therapy and Research Centre, Kaltungo, Gombe state, has urged Nigerians to embrace snake rearing to boost their financial standing.