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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday launched a two-million dollars U.S. Government’s agricultural and private sector partnership to promote agricultural production in Nigeria. U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission, Ms Maria Brewer, at the launch at the U.S. Embassy, Abuja, said that the two years` partnership was with two local companies – Babban […]
The Provost, Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Dr Adeola Odedina, says the college is partnering with foreign investors to creating millions of value chain job opportunities in Cassava Production. Odedina disclosed this in Akure on Wednesday at the occasion of Cassava Adding Value for Africa Phase ll (CAVA ll) Project’s International Farmers’ Field Day on […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development – Chief Audu Ogbeh has inaugurated the Committees for the implementation of the MoU between the Federal Government of Nigeria; participating State Governments of Nigeria and the China-Africa Machinery Corporation – CAMACO on Agricultural Mechanization System – AMS in Abuja. The programme which has Zamfara, Adamawa, Jigawa, Ebonyi, […]
No fewer than 5, 000 registered rice farmers in Kogi will benefit from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) anchor borrower programme. The state’s Chairman of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Mrs Rabi Emaiku, made this known in a town hall meeting of Rice Value Chain Farmers and stakeholders on Friday in Lokoja. Emaiku […]
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take seriously the diversification efforts of his government from oil to agriculture, in the process of bailing the country out of its current economic downturn. Former president Olusegun Obasanjo Obasanjo also charged all Nigerians to embrace agribusiness, […]
Adamawa State Agro Business Investment Opportunities , Adamawa State has an agro-based economy with over 50 per cent of the populace actively involved in farming. The agricultural sector occupies an important position in the state’s economy, employing a large percentage of labour, the exploitation of which has greatly contributed to the development of the state. […]
Delta State Agriculture Opportunities, The Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Delta State is charged with the responsibility of managing and promoting agricultural and related natural resources to achieve effective production of food and raw materials to develop the industrial sector and export market with the effect of enhancing farm income and reducing poverty. […]
The Cassava Growers Group in Ikole, Ekiti, on Monday decried the activities of herdsmen who allowed their cattle to destroy farmers crops thereby resulting in little or no yields. Mr Oludotun Fadipe, the leader of the group told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ikole that this had discouraged majority of the jobless youths […]