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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved about N1.5 billion for disbursement to farmers in Katsina State to boost food production and security in the country under Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP). Leadership checks indicates that about 8000 rice farmers have been cleared by the apex bank and the state government to receive the funds […]
President of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NACOTAN), Mr. Anibe Achimogu, spoke on the dwindling fortune of cotton, poor mobilisation of farmers and lack of commitment by stakeholders, which has allowed neighbouring countries to dominate the market to the detriment of Nigeria. Nigeria was one of the top cotton producing countries, but it has […]
The government of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello in Niger state has been emphatic in its strategic plan to boost Agricultural activities, invariably enhanced productivity in the state thus using the sector to empower youths and women. The governor recently stated that the government has a comparative advantage in the sector considering the fact that the […]
With the current exchange rate policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria among others, a Professor of Resource Economics, Quantitative Techniques and Economic Planning in the Benson Idahosa University, Prof. Rex Oforitse Aruofor, has predicted that the economy may soon recover from recession. Speaking at the 6th Inaugural Lecture Series of BIU with the theme, […]
The Yoruba Initiative (TYI), a socio-cultural and non-political group in the South-West, has decried the encroachment into farm land by suspected herdsmen in the region. Mr Folu Olamiti, the spokesman of TYI in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the increasing encroachment into farm land was already posing threat to the economy of the […]
Cocoa farmers in Osun are to get 150,000 cocoa seedlings at affordable and subsidised rates this season from the local cocoa farmers association. Mr Moses Oladipupo, the state Chairman of Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN), disclosed this on Tuesday in Osogbo, said that the seedlings would be provided by CFAN. Oladipupo said that farmers […]
HarvestPlus-Nigeria has trained 28 processors in the production of high-quality “garri’’, “fufu’’ and custard from Vitamin A-fortified cassava. The Information Officer of HarvestPlus, Ikechukwu Onyewuchi, said via a statement that the two-day “Train the Trainers’’ session was organised, in partnership with IFAD-Value Chain Development Programme (IFAD-VCDP) of Niger. The statement said that the training, which […]
The Niger Commissioner for Commerce, Trade and Investment, Mrs Ramatu Yar’ adua, says the state is exporting 57 per cent of the Shea Butter produced world-wide. Yar’adua announced this on Tuesday at news conference at the defence of her ministry’s 2017 budget proposal at the state House of Assembly in Minna. According to her, the […]
The Kano State Government on Tuesday said it would construct eight earth dams in order to boost irrigation activities across the 44 local government areas of the state. Alhaji Sulaiman Ririwai, Commissioner for Water Resources and Rural Development, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that the project had commenced in Doguwa Local […]
Mrs Augusta Osuya, Development Finance Officer (DFD), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has warned that commercial banks that diverted Federal Government’s Agriculture loans, meant for farmers would be sanctioned. She gave the warning in Port Harcourt on Monday during the sensitisation workshop on the need to diversify from oil economy to agriculture. The workshop was […]
The Federal Government has commenced the process of enacting a `Meat Hygienic Act’ to regulate the operations of abattoirs and slaughter slabs in the country. Dr Shehu Ahmed, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, disclosed this at the official handover of the rehabilitated Lafia modern abattoir to the Nasarawa State Government. […]
The Bank of Agriculture says it has secured 1.118 million dollars grant from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for its capacity building and institutional strengthening projects. In a statement made available on Tuesday in Kaduna, Oluremi Olaoye, the Corporate Communication Manager of the bank, said the projects would enable the bank to sufficiently serve the […]
A don, Mr Femi Aluko, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to deepen efforts toward use of genetic engineering in agriculture for sustainability, food security and production of novel biomaterials. Aluko, who is a Lecturer, Department of Community Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of […]
The African Development Bank and the Government of Sudan, in collaboration with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), launched the ENABLE Youth Program in Sudan on Thursday, March 2, 2017. The AfDB Board approved the ENABLE Youth program on November 28, 2016 with total cost estimated at US $32.3 million. The AfDB is contributing […]
An official of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has said that the bank will launch an $850 million agricultural programme to transform the sector and reduce food imports into Africa. Director of Agriculture in the bank, Dr Chiji Ojukwu, disclosed this in Abuja at the International Conference on Wheat, organised by the Support to Agricultural […]