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The Equipment Leasing Association of Nigeria (ELAN), has said to grow the nation’s economy out of recession, there is a need for government to utilise leasing for national economic development. Addressing journalists at a training in Lagos, the Executive Secretary, ELAN, Andrew Efurhievwe, said “leasing attributes, which centre on easy and convenient access to capital […]
Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the world with the production capacity of approximately 45 million tonnes which is almost 19 per cent of the total cassava production in the world. Cassava, which is raw materials for countless products, has served as food for families especially in the rural areas as the popular […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has called on commercial banks in the Republic of Uganda to reduce their lending interest rates to farmers to encourage growth in the Agriculture sector. He made the call when a delegation from Uganda on an agricultural study tour of the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme […]
Civil society groups have rejected a plan by the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to grow genetically-modified cassava in the country. The Health of Mother Earth Foundation, along with 87 others civil society groups, disclosed their position in a statement. The HOMEF Biosafety Project Manager, Joyce Okeoghene, said the IITA admitted that such approval […]
The Edo State Government and WACOT Limited will receive the Vice President of Nigeria – Professor Yemi Osibanjo, on Tuesday, August 29, 2017, to commission the Edo State Fertilizer and Chemical Company Limited (ESFCCL) located in Auchi, Edo State. The Edo Fertilizer plant was rehabilitated by WACOT Limited in collaboration with Edo State Government, under […]
The Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, said the federal government will soon establish commodities’ certification centres across the six geo-political zones to aid certification and standardisation. Mr. Ogbeh made the disclosure in Kano on Monday during the flag-off of the nationwide advocacy on agricultural quality control and standardization. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that […]
As part of efforts to proffer solutions to the challenges bedevilling Nigeria’s agriculture sector, the Central Committee of the Nigeria Agriculture Awards (NAA), has integrated youth project with essay competition cash awards to attract younger generation into agriculture. The NAA project and essay competition targeting youths in secondary schools and tertiary institutions across the country […]
Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, on Monday, said that Nigeria would attain self-sufficiency in rice production by the end of 2017. Ogbeh gave this assurance at the First International Cocoa Summit, organised by the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment in collaboration with Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CAN) in […]
The Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, has lampooned the Federal Government for failing to take decisive steps to end the escalating clashes between herdsmen and local farmers in parts of the country. Speaking yesterday when the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, hosted members of the NEF in Makurdi, Assistant Secretary of the forum, Alhaji Mustapha Wali, […]
The Bank of Industry (BOI) has signed an agreement with OXFAM for the disbursement of Two Hundred Million Naira (N200, 000,000) to OXFAM’s Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLA) in Nassarawa, Benue and Plateau states. The funding was part of the Federal Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program (GEEP), aimed at strengthening the livelihoods capacity and […]
The FADAMA III Project in Jigawa has trained 300 youths and women in agricultural entrepreneurship, as part of efforts to boost food production in the state. The state Project Coordinator, Alhaji Aminu Isa, stated this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse on Monday. Isa said that the beneficiaries received […]
The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATFN) said on Monday that it has spent over N1 billion to empower farmers in rural areas to ensure sufficient farm produce. Mrs Abimbola Okoya, the Executive Director of the foundation, said this at the presentation of the NIS 9001:2015 Quality Management System of the foundation to Standard Organisation […]
Farm mechanisation is one aspect of agriculture which has made agriculture easy, profitable and attractive to Nigerian farmers, especially the youths. The conventional ways of farming which are manual, have not yielded much result as people especially youths have dumped their hoes and cutlasses to seek white collar jobs, thereby leaving agriculture solely for the […]
In line with its diversification programme and part of efforts to make Osun state the food basket of the West, the Osun State Government has embarked on all year round farming through massive irrigation system. The initiative was aimed at fulfilling one of the six-point integral action plan of the present administration, which is to […]
The Angolan market gained recently two canned food plants of tuna, sardines and horse mackerel, which can soon be exported to the European market, said Friday the Fisheries minister, Victoria Barros Neto in Tômbwa Municipality, south-western Namibe Province. With the rehabilitation of these food plants the country will have on the domestic market canned food […]