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Sokoto Residents Happy As Tomato Prices Drop

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 […]

Farming Activities Resume In Jigawa

“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 […]

Dizengoff’s Monster Tractors Arrive Jigawa To Boost Productivity

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 […]

100 Ekiti Cocoa Farmers Get Improved Seedlings

100 Ekiti Cocoa Farmers Get Improved Seedlings: A community leader, Chief Sesan Fabamise, has donated 10,000 cocoa seedlings to 100 farmers in Ijan-Ekiti, Ekiti, to increase cocoa production and to boost the economy of the community. Speaking during the distribution of the seedlings, Fabamise said his desire to embark on the mission was borne out […]

Lagos Plans 32 Tonnes Per Hour Rice Mill

Lagos Plans 32 Tonnes Per Hour Rice Mill: The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Toyin Suarau, says the state is completing the process of establishing a 32 tonnes per hour rice mill at Imota, projected to produce 2.6 million 50kg bags of rice per annum. The commissioner made the disclosure at the recent 2018 […]

Kwara Moves To Ban Charcoal Production, Tree Felling

A bill seeking to prohibit the production, transportation and sale of charcoal in Kwara State has passed through second reading at the Kwara State House of Assembly. (Kwara Ban Charcoal Production) Also, another one seeking chain saw mills to plant a tree in place of felled ones passed the second reading.  To this end, a public […]

Benue To Sell Fertiliser Below FG Price, Pegs Bag At N4,000

Benue Fertiliser: The Benue State Executive Council has approved N4,000 for the sale of 50kg bag of all brands of fertiliser for the 2018 cropping season. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Lawrence Onoja, who disclosed this in Makurdi while briefing newsmen, said the SEC had ordered the Ministry of Agriculture to source for vendors that […]

FG To Replace GES With Agric Mechanisation Scheme

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh disclosed that the federal government is to introduce a new programme called “Agriculture Implement and Mechanization Scheme (AIMS)” as a substitute to Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES).