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[ad_1] Kano State Agro Pastoral Development Project (KSADP) has awarded a contract for the production of fodder seeds worth N88 million, including Gambia grass, among other seeds native to tropical Africa. The livestock facility will be established on a 20-hectare seed multiplication plot at Dudduru Grazing Reserve in Ajingi Local Government Area of the state. […]
As the global pandemic, coronavirus also known as COVID-19 keep spreading, it has really caused great havoc and adverse impact on cocoa farmers in the rural areas; as they have no or limited access to farm inputs, cocoa seedlings and agrochemical to maintain their farms as the main crop season is fast approaching. To tackle […]
[ad_1] Following the approval of loans to selected maize farmers in Abia State, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released planting inputs to farmers for this year’s planting season under it’s Maize Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. Member, Board of Trustees, representing the Southeast in the Maize Farmers Association of Nigeria, Chief Israel Amanze, who confirmed […]
[ad_1] • As Farm Settlements Get Govt Support Smallholder farmers and other stakeholders in the agriculture sector in Edo State have commended the state’s sustained investment in the sector, to ensure food sufficiency, create jobs and improve livelihoods, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The commendation came on the heels of the onset of planting of crops […]
[ad_1] THERE were mixed reactions, last week, over the transfer of 62 southern police officers from the ranks of Superintendent of Police, SP, to Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, and including 15 Divisional Police Officers, DPOs, from Delta State Police Command to the northern part of the country. Some affected officers suggested the exercise was […]
[ad_1] The Ogun Ministry of Agriculture says there was no movement of Cattle into Isheri Kara, Ogere, Sapade and Iperu areas of the state as being alleged. Dr Dotun Sorunke, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, made the clarification in a statement issued on Thursday in Abeokuta. Sorunke said that the state Ministry of Agriculture […]
[ad_1] ASABA-YOUTHS at Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State, rose against suspected herdsmen, who stormed the Admiralty Neighbourhood Estate in the town to kidnap a victim, Monday, and chased them away. Vanguard learned that some concerned residents of the estate were at Police Headquarters, Asaba, to lodge a complaint about the frequent abductions […]
The Kebbi State Government and an Agricultural Firm, Machine and Equipment Corporation Africa (MECA), on Wednesday, in Birnin Kebbi signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU), for the management of one hundred (100) Tractors under a Tractor Hiring Scheme. According to a press release signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Yahaya […]
Following the meeting with commissioners of agriculture last year, the Enugu state government has demonstrated its commitment to investing in weed control by organizing the first ever training for extension workers on weed management in cassava and maize farming systems in the state. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) through the African Cassava Agronomy […]
[ad_1] Edo State Government said it has commenced the disbursement of over N202 million to 2,250 startups, which spreads across five Local Government Areas of the state. READ MORE: FG Commences Training Of 730 Niger Delta Youths In ICT, Fish Farming, Others Ifueko Alufohai, of the Project Support Unit, Edo Sustainable Development Goals (PSU-SDG), who […]
[ad_1] As the lockdown order in Osun entered the 7th day, Governor Gboyega Oyetola on Wednesday flagged off the distribution of 6,020 bags of rice to residents across the 31 local government areas in the state. He said the gesture was aimed at cushioning the effect of the hardship occasioned by the stay-at-home order by […]
[ad_1] National Strategic Grains Reserve Complex, located along Iwo Road, Ibadan, in Lagelu Local Government Area of Oyo State, has become the shadow of itself. For years now, the reserve complex has not been in operation. About two years ago, when The Guardian visited the place, it looked deserted. But now, no one is allowed to […]
[ad_1] 2,403 Cassava production farmers have been credited with a sum of N210,273,00k each as credit under the Ogun State Anchor Borrowers Programme across the 20 local government areas of the state. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina, said the beneficiaries are the first batch of the programme. The commissioner described the development […]
[ad_1] To cushion the effect of market closure across Lagos State, as a restrictive measures to break the transmission of Covid-19, the state government has set up makeshift markets for food and agricultural produce in selected schools across selected council areas. The makeshift markets will be located at Bishop Aggey Primary School, Ilasamaja; Ajenifuja Primary […]
[ad_1] The ravaging Coronavirus epidemic has dealt a blow on Ekiti State’s aspiration to scale up its rice production. The Japanese Government’s grant of $148,209 (N55 million) to the state, meant to facilitate provision of modern equipment for local rice farmers, has temporarily been stalled as people are shunning the Asian country for now. This […]