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How Finance Can Help Smallholder Farmer Improve Yield, Over the years, lack of finance has remained one of the major factors bedeviling the country’s agricultural sector and this impediment has continued to prevent farmers from investing in basic inputs, such as quality seeds, fertilizers and small-scale irrigation facilities among others needed to raise productivity and […]
Fish, Shrimps Production: Nigeria’s quest to boost fish and shrimps production has received a boost a Atlantic Shrimpers Limited (ASL) has unveiled two newly acquired trawlers-Seven Stars 1 and 2 as part of its fleet expansion and increase investment in the country’s seafood subsector. The investment in the newly acquired trawlers is the largest made […]
“FG Anchor Borrowers Programme” An expert in Nigeria’s agricultural sector has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently review the implementation of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Anchor-Borrower Programme (ABP), as findings has shown that the implementation of the scheme so far, is falling short of national quest of making the sector driving force […]
GMO, Rose Gidado is the Scientific Officer and Assistant Director of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA). She is also the country coordinator of the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) in Africa. GM foods have been heavily criticised for their long term health effects and other demerits. However, in this interview with PREMIUM TIMES‘ […]
The Federal Government has affirmed that farmers across the country will benefit from the leasing of agricultural equipment intended to aid farming operations and boost their agricultural output.
Fish Importation: Nigeria is spending over N1 billion on the importation of fish annually despite being the second largest producer of the commodity in the continent.
Stakeholders in the Nigeria tomato industry have agreed to hold annual tomato investment roundtable, as part of the initiative to build –up more investment required to stimulate production active along value- chain in country.
The Raw Material Research and Development Council (RMRDC) has released over 20 tonnes of certified cotton seeds as well as 1.5 tonnes of foundation seeds to cotton farmers in the country for the 2018 farming season.
FarmFund: To address challenges in the agric sector, FarmFunded has introduced an online crowdfunding platform to scale-up farming operations.
Nigeria faces imminent famine unless Federal Government reconsiders its current lukewarm attitude towards stuffing the grain silos, which are currently empty, MEDIA investigations have revealed.
Borno State: Reports of a positive impact are being received from recipients of the seeds donated in 2017to help alleviate the food crisis in northern Nigeria.
The Confined Field Trial (CFT) currently being carried out on transgenic cassava at an IITA site has been described as “completely safe with absolutely no risk of contamination to local cassava varieties.” Dr Anna Carluccio, a scientist on the research team at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), said this in an interview in […]
Most Nigerian homes, especially in the Southwest region, who consume good quantity of pepper, may have to endure the current high price of the commodity in the market. For now, according to The Guardian survey, scarcity is the factor contributing to the current price increase. The fact that pepper is a major spice used in […]
As the Federal Government continues the campaign for more Nigerians to embrace agriculture, stakeholders are however concerned over the alarming loss of forest land to agricultural purposes. This comes against the backdrop of a recent forest inventory report taken in Cross River State that revealed a whooping 167,382 hectares of forest land was lost to […]
The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) says it will unveil some insurance products to address the loss of agricultural investments due to farmers and herdsmen clashes across the country. The Managing Director of NAIC, Mrs Folashade Joseph, said this at the sideline of a workshop titled `Accelerating Growth of Agriculture Insurance in Nigeria’ in Abuja […]