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Interview with the National President of Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA), Segun Adewumi, on the recent activities in the cassava sector, and how cassava can be used to boost the nation’s economy. There is so much talk about food security and industrial potential of cassava. What can you say about this? Cassava provides over 20 […]
Stakeholders including academia, research experts, financial institutions, soil scientists and credit providers on Wednesday held a Stakeholders Consultative Meeting to improve the livelihood of farmers in the country. The meeting, which was organised by Nigeria Soil Health Consortium (South) in conjunction with Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), […]
The Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria (NOAN) has called for farmers to go organic, while also appealing to the Lagos State Government to support in the establishment of an organic market at the state. The association also called on wife of the state governor, Bolanle Ambode and the state’s Iyaloja, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, in […]
Nigerian farmers have been urged to ensure maximum management of soil so as to prevent further soil degradation and ensure availability of food in the country. The Head of the Land and Water Resources Management Programme at the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, Dr. Olufunmilayo Ande gave this advice in her paper […]
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has said that importation of rice and wheat gulped over N1 trillion in foreign exchange annually. Emefiele said this on Thursday in Jibia, Katsina State, at the launch of CBN Anchor Borrowers Programme and 2016/2017 Dry Season Farming. ‘’Nigeria’s import bill is exceptionally […]
Cotton farming in Nigeria has received very little attention from various governments over the past two decades. This has however made the commodity to witness continuous decline in production. With its contribution to GDP dropping from 25 per cent to 4 per cent. Lack of improved seeds, access to extension services and low prices of […]
Faced with dwindling oil revenue, the nation is gradually returning to agriculture. In the outgoing year, many states collaborated in agricultural ventures, which are now yielding dividends. DANIEL ESSIET writes. It was another tough year for the economy. Economic growth was slower. The main reasons for the relative slow down are not unique to Nigeria.The […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised Nigerians that the change they voted for in 2015 will manifest more through agriculture in the new year 2017 that is already here. He also said that the era of over-dependence on oil for foreign exchange revenues is gradually waning as agriculture is picking. Nigeria’s agricultural revolution has begun with […]
Katsina State Government has keyed into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrower Programme (ABP) for rice production in dry season highlighting the state Marshal plan to tackle challenges currently facing the agricultural sector, including its vision for adequate rice for local consumption and eventually for export. At the launch of the programme at […]
The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has confirmed that the 102 bags of rice seized by Customs operatives earlier this month is unsatisfactory for human consumption due to contamination by microorganisms even as they have clarified that they are not plasticized. The NAFDAC Acting Director-General, Mrs Yetude Oni made this confirmation […]
Poultry products worth over N147 million illegally imported for the yuletide season have been impounded and destroyed by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operation Unit, Zone C, in Benin, Edo State. The products which were destroyed on Thursday in Benin included 16,422 cartons of imported frozen products. The Officer-in-Charge of the Benin […]
The Chief Executive Officer of Raymos Guana Farms, Mr Raymos Guana, says the decision of the Federal Government to ban rice importation is too hasty. Guana, a former Commissioner for Lands in Delta, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on Thursday. According to him, the quantity […]
Nigeria is set to introduce genetically modified crops into the country’s farming system starting 2017 with the commercial release of the home-grown genetically modified cowpea (beans), which Institute for Agricultural Research, ABU, Zaria worked on in the last 13 years. Also next year, the country is expecting the research on Bt. Corn and Cotton for […]
With success stories of good harvests this year, and import restrictions which resulted in competitive prices for farm produce, farmers are warming up to expand their production nationwide. Aisha Mohammad, the public-private partnership officer of FADAMA III, Additional Financing, in Niger State said they are encouraging farmers to produce more food for the country. “We […]
The Union of Tomato Paste Manufacturers in Nigeria has said the once vibrant tomato industry might stop existing in 2017 if the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) does not amend its policy on forex to exclude triple concentrate tomato paste from the scope of the 41 items under the restricted list. The union, through its […]