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Less than seven months after Audu Ogbe, Minister of Agriculture promised the nation that the government was poised to crash fertilizer price down to N6,000 or below, tangible evidence has emerged that this is a promise kept. Last Monday. Uche Orji, the ebullient Managing Director of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, revealed that the […]
An official of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says the country cannot export honey because it produces less than three per cent of its current needs. Dr Gideon Mshelbwala, a Director in the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services of the ministry, made the statement in Abuja on Friday on the occasion of […]
The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said that the company is planning to invest over $1 billion in agricultural production and processing of selected commodities like sugar, rice and tomatoes across Nigeria.Speaking at the 2017 Niger State Investment Summit in Minna, the state capital on Monday, Dangote, who was represented by […]
Prof. Sani Ahmed-Miko, Country Director, Sasakawa Global 2000 (SG 2000), when he visited some Community Demonstration plots at at Dakaiyawa village, Kaugama Local Government area, Jigawa on Wednesday advised rice farmers in the country to embrace the improved rice production technology introduced by the organisation. Some officials of the NGO were in the area to […]
Ethiopia’s Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Damene Darota, on Friday, said the ministry planned to lift close to 7.9 million rural Ethiopians from “absolute’’ poverty. The ministry, currently evaluating major activities implemented during the just-concluded 2016-2017 fiscal year, revealed the country’s plan to improve the economic conditions of the Ethiopians, mainly in the […]
A private company, Corporate Configurations Limited has decried illegal trespass on its farmland situated at Shika district, Giwa local government, Kaduna state by Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Microfinance Bank Ltd (ABUMFB), Zaria. In a statement made available by the company to LEADERSHIP Sunday, it recalled that Corporate Configurations Limited obtained a loan from A.B.U Microfinance […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will sustain concrete measures to diversify the economy by devoting more resources to agriculture in the 2017 budget. Speaking to reporters in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend on the margins of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), President Buhari said African countries had a […]
As government intensifies energy and resources to diversify the economy and make agriculture its mainstay, two young Nigerian entrepreneurs have developed a state-of-the-art App that will connect farmers, broaden knowledge base of stakeholders in the sector with the ultimate aim of broadening agri-business in the country. Speaking with journalists in Lagos on the new tool, […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has challenged scientists in Nigeria to find ways of resolving the economic recession by introducing innovative agriculture methods that will help grow the economy. Addressing the opening session of the 60th anniversary of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) in Port Harcourt, Wike said new methods in agriculture would […]
Herdsmen yesterday, invaded farmlands in Imo State and destroyed over 200 farms in Amakohia-Ubi Autonomous community, Owerri west Local Government Area of Imo state. The farmers are now counting losses following the invasion of their farmlands by herdsmen. President General of the community, Mr. Cyril Ndumanya confirmed this to Vanguard, yesterday, in Owerri. He said […]
Chairman, Kaduna State Chapter of All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Alhaji Nuhu Aminu, has said that agriculture is the only sector that can provide jobs to every Nigerian irrespective of qualification. Aminu made the observation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, Kaduna on Wednesday. “Agriculture not only in […]
A total of 3,500 women from six local government areas on the banks of River Hadejia in Jigawa State have received training on techniques of parboiling paddy rice. The training involved using locally made implements for processing paddy into clean, polished and unbroken rice. The women underwent the four-day training facilitated by Atafi Agro- Merchandise […]
Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN) has threatened to arrest and prosecute adulterators of fertiliser in the country. President of the association, Mr. Thomas Etuh, issued the threat in Kaduna at a stakeholders’ forum where over 60 registered fertiliser distributors were issued certificates under the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI) programme. He said the […]
Niger State government is set to boost poultry production through the introduction of mobile kits. The mobile poultry is part of the youth empowerment scheme with agriculture entrepreneurship as the driving force. In an interview with our correspondent at the weekend in Minna, the Director General of Youth Empowerment Initiative in the state, Malam Kolo, […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), has disbursed the sum of N216.6 million as loan to 1, 171 rice farmers in Gombe State. The Branch Manager of BOA in Gombe, Adamu Idris Dula, stated this at the launch of the first phase of CBN’s Anchor Borrowers Programme for rice […]