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3 Marketing Factors for Animal Source Food System Success

The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project recently launched an analytical guidance document identifying the enabling environment factors that drive animal source food (ASF) market system success in terms of economic growth, resilience, inclusiveness, and improved nutrition. The guidance document organizes findings in three interconnected categories: supply-side factors, marketing factors, and financial services […]

Sep 08, 2020 Read more

Nigeria Conducts Aerial Spray to Kill Invading Quelea Birds in North-East Farms

The federal government has commenced aerial spray of pesticides to control the invasion of Quelea birds in North-east Nigeria, an official of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed. Adamu Kazaure, the Coordinating Officer, Federal Pest Control Services Division, Department of Veterinary and Pest Control, in charge of Adamawa and Taraba States, […]

Sep 03, 2019 Read more

Federal Government To Take Biometric Of 16m Farmers

The Federal Government is to take new biometric database of 16 million farmers to enable them benefit from intervention packages during the 2017 cropping season. The Managing Director, Bank of Agriculture, Prof. Danbala Danju, said this on Sunday while signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Public Private Partnership (PPP) with Trans- Sahara Consortium, Nigeria. […]

Mar 20, 2017 Read more

Tomato Farming: Fadama Lauds Women, Youth Participation

The coordinator of the Fadama National Project, Taiwo Adewumi, has lauded women and Youth groups in Kaduna State over their involvement in tomato farming. He disclosed this after touring some communities benefiting from fadama project and Ikara food processing company in the state and urged Imams and traditional leaders to always encourage youth and women […]

Mar 20, 2017 Read more

Farmers Smile As Tomato Price Rises In Katsina

Tomato farmers in Katsina State are smiling to the banks as the price of the commodity jerked up recently. In most farms in the state, a big basket is sold at between N4,000 and N4,5000. At the same period last year, farmers and merchants of tomato in the state were badly affected by glut of […]

Mar 10, 2017 Read more

How Farmers Can Use Their Produce For Bank Loan – NCX boss

The MD/CEO of the Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX), Mrs Zaheera Baba-Ari, has said farmers can now use their farm produce as collateral to secure loans from banks. To do this, Mrs Baba-Ari advised farmers to get in touch with the commodity brokers in their localities, who will help them aggregate their harvest and store them […]

Mar 10, 2017 Read more

Bauchi Govt To Help Dry Season Rice Farmers Cultivate 4,000 Hectares

Bauchi State government has promised to support dry season rice farmers across the 20 local government areas of the state to cultivate 4, 000 hectares. Governor Mohammed Abubakar made the promise when he launched the 2017 Fadama III additional financing for dry season rice farming at Konkiyel village in Darazo local government area. He said […]

Mar 06, 2017 Read more

2,000 Rice Farmers Benefit From BUA Interest Free Loan

BUA Rice Milling Company, Kano, has in fulfillment of its commitment to boost rice farming, offered a non interest loan of improved rice seeds, pump machines and other tools worth N288,000 to each of the 2000 targeted rice farmers in Kano State. In an interview with newsmen shortly after the distribution of the farming tools […]

Mar 06, 2017 Read more

Masari Gets Katsina Assembly Nod To Access FG’s Subsidized Fertilizer

Katsina State House of Assembly has granted approval to Governor Aminu Bello Masari to participate in Federal Government backed special intervention programme expected to reduce the price of fertilizer to N5000 per bag, its speaker, Abubakr Yahaya Kusada, has said. Kusada, who spoke at a special session of the house on the matter, said that […]

Mar 06, 2017 Read more

7,000 Benue Rice, Cassava Farmers Benefit From IFAD Scheme

Benue State Government has said over 7,000 farmers are being supported in the state by the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, Value Chain Development Programne, VCDP, to boost rice and cassava production in the country. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. James Anbua, made this known at the IFAD-VCDP Commodity Alliance Forum for Farmers and […]

Mar 01, 2017 Read more

Senator Distributes Water Pumps To Dry-Season Farmers‎ In Bauchi

The senator representing Bauchi South Senatorial district, Senator Ali Wakili has distributed 114 water pumps to dry season farmers in his constituency. Speaking during the distribution at his residence in Bauchi, he said that the gesture is aimed at assisting rural farmers as a way to reduce poverty at the grassroots. Wakili who is also […]

Feb 27, 2017 Read more

2017 Cropping Season: Farmers Appeal For Early Supply Of Fertilisers

Some farmers in Zaria on Friday appealed to government for early supply of fertilisers for this year’s farming season to facilitate bumper harvest. They made the appeal in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria. Malam Musa Dogara, a seasoned farmer, said the call became necessary in view of the fact […]

Feb 20, 2017 Read more

Delta Rice Farmer Wants Govt To Provide Land For Dry Season Farming

Chief Silvanus Ejezie, Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Delta chapter, has called on the State Government to provide farmlands in the wetland for dry season farming. Ejezie made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on Sunday. He said that the association had identified some wetland […]

Feb 14, 2017 Read more

Dizengoff Partners CASE IH To Assist Nigerian Farmers

In its bid to improve farming substantially, as well as, revolutionise the Nigerian agricultural sector through mechanisation, Dizengoff Nigeria, is partnering CASE IH, a global leader in agricultural equipment manufacturer, in the area of providing quality tractors to Nigerian farmers. Announcing this in Lagos, the CEO/Country Manager of Dizengoff Nigeria, Mr. Antti Ritvonen, said for […]

Feb 13, 2017 Read more