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Like many Yoruba towns, Epe, a Lagos State community, also derives its panegyric from its main occupation, which is fishing. Because of its geographical location as a coastal town, Epe fish market has been a melting pot of different cultures through the years. TUNDE BUSARI, who was at the market, reports. Although its official name […]
Tomato farmers in Dantankari, Katsina State, say they have gotten a remedy for the dreaded tomato disease known as tuta absoluta, locally known as ‘ tomato ebola ’ that ravaged farms in the state and many others in the last two irrigation seasons. Daily Trust had in June 2015 reported how tomato production in the […]
Dr. Manzo Daniel Maigari is the Kaduna State Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development. In this interview in Kaduna recently, he highlighted some of the challenges and achievements of the federal government-initiated Anchor Borrowers Programme in the state. Excerpts: How compliant have the farmers been in remitting farm produce in the anchor programme? Farmers have […]
Butchers Association in Anambra State has expressed worry over absence of cattle market and functional abattoirs in the state. It said lack of the facilities has negatively affected the prices of cow meat as people could not bring in cows to the state in large quantities. The president of the association, Chief Felix Ononenyi-Ikenga, who […]
About 102, 000 irrigation farmers in Zamfara are to receive fertiliser and other inputs at subsidised rates under the Federal Government’s 2017 dry season Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS). Alhaji Musa Raji, the Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture in the state, disclosed this in Talata-Mafara while receiving the House of Representatives’ Committee on Agriculture, who […]
The Governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, has received a warm applause for being forthright on the implementation of policies designed to revamp the agriculture sector in the state. The praise was coming from members of the Osun state chapter of Cassava Growers Association of Nigeria, while they presented their position paper to the State House” […]
The state government of Osun has requested for Expression of Interest for competent aggregators to activate market-driven agricultural value chain in the state. Recall Governor Rauf Aregbesola had two weeks ago travelled to Germany to seek partnership in the agricultural value chain. The Osun Agricultural Value Chain Activation initiative is an initiative of the state…” […]
Dr Isa Salihu, Adamawa Commissioner for Livestock Development, confirmed that the state government in collaboration with the Federal Government aims to vaccinate about four million cattle. Salihu, who made this known in an interview in Yola on Monday,said the development follows the outbreak of contagious ‘Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP)’ disease late last year in some cattle’s […]
The Sokoto State Government says it plans to distribute 15,000 bags of rice seedlings and 14, 000 water pumping machines to dry season farmers in the state. Alhaji Umaru Nagwari, the Commissioner for Agriculture, spoke on Tuesday in Sokoto, when he appeared before the State House of Assembly Committee on Agriculture to defend the ministry’s […]
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture says it will distribute agricultural inputs to 140,000 dry season rice farmers in Jigawa through the 2016/2017 Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GEES). The Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS) represents policy and pragmatic shift within the existing Fertilizer Market Stabilization Programme. It provides series of incentives to encourage the critical actors […]
The Zamfara government has registered over 200 women farmers associations across the state for the 2017 dry season rice farming. The Special Adviser to the state governor on Zamfara State Comprehensive Agricultural Revolution Program (ZACAREP), Alhaji Aminu Dankwangila, disclosed this while speaking to newsmen on Monday in Gusau. He said that the registration was done […]
Sellers and consumers of Cucumber, Cucumis sativus, a green and roughly cylindrical shaped fruit, known to help ease feelings of anxiety and buffer some of the damaging effects of stress, need not go far again, as the fruit is now readily available in Epe area of Lagos State. The discovery of the farm, where the […]
The Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, has inaugurated regional co-ordinators for soil development to foster food sufficiency in the country. Inaugurating the committee, the institute’s Executive Director, Prof. James Adediran, said members comprised professors and specialists on soil. According to him, the committee is expected to raise a team of soil […]
Governor Rauf Aregbesola has led a delegation to Germany in search of new insights on modern agriculture in order to further realise the dream of making Osun the food basket of the South West. This, the administration believes will help empower citizens and improve the quality of life for residents in the state. On Saturday, […]
The oldest cocoa producing community in Nigeria, Eti-Oni in Atakunmosa East local government area of Osun State has designed developmental goals to modernise the ancient community, better the lives of the cocoa farmers and curtail the mass rural to urban migration. Speaking at the post Cocoa Festival conference held at the Oloni’s Palace Gureje Square […]