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Kogi State government has concluded plans to establish six farm settlements across the three senatorial districts of the state. Special Adviser to the Governor on Local Government Affairs, Mr. Abubakar Ohere, disclosed this yesterday, while addressing administrators of the 21 local government councils of the state on the government’s New Agenda blueprint. Ohere said farmers […]
The African Union Commission in collaboration with the NEPAD Agency recently held a technical validation meeting for a Continental Agribusiness Strategy and a framework, operational structure, and implementation business plan for a continental African agribusiness apex body. The Apex Body meeting held in Johannesburg, South Africa was one of the implementation modalities […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has said the federal government is planning to start an agric-focused financial institution. He said the institution would be owned by both the Federal Government, farmers and other stakeholders in the agricultural sector. The Minister stated this when he received the Governor of Kebbi State, […]
Towards boosting the Nigerian agricultural yields National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM), yesterday commenced training of 60 Nigerian youths across the nation’s 36 states in designs and fabrication of agricultural implements. The trainees, with prior relevant skills in designs and fabrication will undergo intensive modern coaching for one month in line with modern agricultural practices […]
Integrated fish farming is a system of producing fish in combination with other agricultural/livestock farming operations centered on the fish pond. The farming sub-systems e.g. fish, crop and livestock are linked to each other in such a way that the by products/wastes from one sub-system become the valuable inputs to another sub-system and thus ensures […]
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boro ,says the Federal Government will train 500 ex-militants in agriculture and aquaculture under its amnesty programme. Boro disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) shortly after his visit to Bio-resources Development Centre (BIODEC), Odi in Bayelsa . He said the […]