Nigeria Agriculture News

Mitigating farm risks with insurance as climate change worsens

Multi-peril insurance coverage for food and cash crop production has been identified as...

Akwa Ibom woos farm investors

Governor Udom Emmanuel. Photo: MRUDOMEMMANUEL Corporate farm investors have been enjoined to partner with...

Farmers can get 50% subsidy on insurance premiums, says NAIC

Managing Director, Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC), Mrs Folashade Joseph, explains how farmers...

Lagos APPEALS Project tasks farmers on export of agric products

Lagos State Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Support, APPEALS, project has advised farmers,...

WFP links record hunger levels to conflict, climate change, COVID-19

The World Food Program (WFP) says many countries affected by conflict, COVID-19 and climate change are...

Lagos PAN mulls establishing hatchery for day-old chicks

Amid the current challenges facing the poultry industry, Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Lagos...

Harnessing scent leaves for export, domestic use

Cultivation of Clover Basil, popularly called scent leaves is one area with enormous export...

NDBDA board commends Songhai farm project’s progress

The Songhai Integrated farm project in Kpong Community, Rivers State, has been described as...

FG seeks collaboration with Agric stakeholders to curb post-harvest losses

The Federal Government on Saturday urged stakeholders in the Agricultural Sector to collaborate...

Trump woos farmers with promise of $14 bn in pandemic aid

In a bid to win over voters in US farm states, President Donald...

Bandits kill 2 policemen in Sokoto, 5 farmers in Katsina

Bandits have killed two policemen and five farmers in two separate attacks in...

Amotekun Corps arrest herdsman, 65 cows over farm destruction in Ondo

A herdsman, Adamu Yussuf and his no fewer than 65 cows have been...

Poultry association demands three per cent interest loans, others

• Asks CBN to explain its acclaimed 166 farmers’ schemes Members of the Poultry...

How multiple disasters ravage Sokoto farms

A mood of despondency sets in as Mallam Abdullah surveys the devastation to...

Food prices highest in Ogun, Lagos, Abia – NBS

The prices of food items in the country rose highest in Ogun, Lagos and...

Food inflation in Nigeria hits 16% in August

Food inflation in Nigeria rose in August to 16.0 per cent, compared with 15.48...