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Farmers across the country are expressing hopes that this year’s harvest will be bountiful compared to last years. Some, especially the wet season rice farmers are however counting their loses as a result of floods that ravaged rice farms along the river banks in most rice producing states in the country. Reports from some beans […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, FAO, on Wednesday released its situation report for November 2018, disclosing that an estimated one million and five hundred thousand (1.5 million) households are to be affected by the Fall Army Worm, FAW across some states in the country. The report, which was made available to […]
Cocoa Some young people, especially graduates, see cocoa farming as a poorly rewarding business meant for only the aged people who have resigned to fate. They think farmers, and by extension cocoa producers, have nothing else to show for their labour and drudgery except a beggarly existence. These perceptions are not only false but also […]
Alhaji Suleiman Adamu, the Minister of Water Resources, on Wednesday, said the ministry had started the process of establishing Songhai model of agriculture to increase food production and job creation. Adamu, who said this at the ongoing Nigeria Media Water Week in Abuja, noted that this was also in line with the Federal Government’s Economic […]
Prof. Olubunmi Omotesho, University of Ilorin, on Tuesday said the problems of agriculture in Nigeria and Africa could be attributed mainly to climate change. Omotesho made this known at a two-day Policy Dialogue on Crop/Livestock Integration, organised by Synergos Nigeria, in collaboration with other stakeholders in Abuja. He said that climate change, which resulted in […]
Recently, Africa Investments, organisers of African round trips across different countries in Africa, chooses Nigeria as one of it’s locations for investment during the 2018 edition of the event. From Left: Robyn Scott – Principal Of African Investments, Abimbola Olufore – CEO Wycliffe Energy, Oladeji Olawale – M.D Naphtali Ltd, Wofai Samuel – Keynote Speaker […]
The spokesperson for the group, Alhaji Umar Isa made the appeal in an interview with the Newsmen in Sokoto, where he described the programme a successful one. and commended President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on the initiative. Isa who is also a member of National Association of Input Suppliers and Merchants commended President Muhammadu Buhari led […]
The amount of US corn inspected for export in the week ended November 8 totaled 1.134 million mt, down 11.5% from the previous week, data from the Department of Agriculture showed Tuesday. The most recent reporting period’s total was 179.5% higher than the year-ago week, according to the USDA’s weekly Federal Grain Inspection Service report. […]
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) says about 185,000 applicants will benefit from the Central Bank of Nigeria Agri-Business Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Scheme (AGSMEIS) loans nationwide. The NDE Director-General, Nasiru Ladan-Argungu, made this known at the orientation of 450 trainees of four schemes of the agency in Nasarawa State on Wednesday. He listed […]
The government had 33.1 mln tn of wheat in its central pool as of Nov 1, up from 23.9 mln tn in the year-ago period, according to data released by Food Corp of India. The nearly 10-mln-tn rise in stocks is primarily because of robust procurement this year. In the season started April, the government […]
Solar panels In line with ongoing efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, the Food andAgriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has commissioned solar-powered boreholes in three (3) arid states of Northern Nigeria, to boost access to water for domestic use and agricultural practice. The intervention is provided through the Action Against Desertification […]
The federal government says it is considering fixing a guaranteed minimum price for agricultural produce to reduce the fluctuating and high cost of commodities. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between tractor companies and Agriculture Mechanisation Company. […]
The US Department of Agriculture has slashed its estimate for global oilseeds production in 2018-19 to 599.6 mln tn, lower by 4.4 mln tn from its previous forecast, the agency said in its November report. The world oilseed crop is seen declining due to lower output estimates for soybean, cottonseed, peanuts and mustard seed. However, […]
The government has approved proposals from nine states for the procurement of pulses and oilseeds on the basis of minimum support price (MSP) in the kharif marketing year beginning October, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh has said. “We have given permission to nine states to procure pulses and oilseeds under the price support scheme,” he […]
The Federal Government says it is considering fixing a guaranteed minimum price for agricultural produce to reduce the fluctuating and high cost of commodities. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, disclosed this in Abuja at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between tractor companies and Agriculture Mechanisation Company. Ogbeh […]