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The Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc) says it has distributed over N2.9 billion across 13,900 hectares of rice farms comprising 40 projects in Nigeria.
Nigerian sorghum farmers are expecting higher yield this year on favorable weather and increasing demand for local sorghum for human, industrial and animal consumption.
Nigeria and China are expanding their friendship in the areas of rice, seed development and tissue culture.
The Global Cassava Partnerships for the 21st Century (GCP21) has called for urgent regional approach to halt the spread of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) that is threatening cassava production in Southeast Asia—a region that accounts for about 55 million tons of cassava and host billions of dollars in cassava investment.
GCP21 recognizes the contribution of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to cassava research and development.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) today said it will invest $120 million in the next 2-3 years to boost the productivity and transform cassava and other eight other commodities on the continent.
Sokoto Residents Happy As Tomato Prices Drop, Few days after Eid el fitri celebration, prices of tomatoes have dropped in Sokoto even as the merchants attributed the general high cost of tomatoes in the state to non -availability of tomato produced in the state. From N22, 000 per basket, it plummeted to between N12, 000 […]
“Jigawa Farming Activities Resume” Farming activities in the 2018 rainy season have started in most of the local government areas of Jigawa, investigations by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) have revealed. NAN observed that in view of the regular rainfalls across the state, most farmers have considered the soil wet enough for them to start […]
The Global Cassava Partnership for the 21st (GCP21) century will on 17 April 2018 hold a world press conference to announce the fourth International Cassava Conference billed to take place in Cotonou, Benin in 11-15 June 2018.
The Bank of Industry (BoI) and the Ebonyi State Government are to collaborate in a N4 billion matching funds to enhance the fortunes of civil servants in the state through agricultural activities.
The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) has reaffirmed commitment to promoting agriculture and food security in the country.
“Dizengoff Advises Farmers On Pest Control” As the planting season gets underway, Dizengoff has advised farmers across the country not to take pest control for granted in preparing their fields for cultivation. The advice came through the company’s manager, in charge of agrochemicals Stephen Adeniran in a chat in Lagos, while previewing progress so far […]
Dizengoff Monster Tractors, A two high capacity tractors from Dizengoff Nigeria has arrived Jigawa state to help boost sugar cane farmers productivity in the state. The tractors were received by the Great Northern Agriculture Business Limited for the cultivation of its ambitious 12,000 hectares sugarcane farm in Jigawa state. The two CASE IH tractors delivered […]
The Vice Chancellor, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, Saminu Ibrahim, a professor, on Tuesday observed that 80 per cent of farming activities in Nigeria concentrated on crop production. Ibrahim made the observation in Bauchi at a public lecture titled “Unleashing Agricultural Potentials for Diversion of Nigeria’s Economy” organised by Alumni of Ahmadu Bello University, […]
Nigeria Agriculture, Under three years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the agric sector has witnessed a dramatic transformation. The sector looks good to drive the on-going economic diversification. DANIEL ESSIET reports. Latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show that agriculture was one of the largest contributors to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) […]