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The Osun State Broiler Outgrowers Production Scheme (OBOPS), has produced at least five million birds in the last three years, the scheme managers have said.Revealing this at the weekend, Mr. Kolawole Ogini, who is the facilitator of the second phase of the scheme stated that OBOPS has placed Osun among states with relatively high production […]
An associate professor with the Faculty of Agriculture, Federal University Wukari in Taraba State, Banake E. Sambo has said poor road networks; lack of improved means of transportation to major markets, epileptic power supply and water for easy movement of goods and services are major challenges constraining ginger production in Nigeria. He said this in […]
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has solicited the assistance of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in boosting commercial agricultural in the state. Akeredolu made the call when the AfDB President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, visited him on Sunday in Akure. The governor explained that the continental bank’s support was necessary to facilitate the cultivation of high-quality […]
The Oyo State Police Command on Saturday said it has launched a manhunt for a Fulani herdsman that killed a farmer in Igbeti, Oke-Ogun area of the state. The farmer, Musiliu Aliu, was hacked to death on his farm by the herdsman during an argument over the latter’s cattle grazing on Aliu’s farmland. It was […]
As the planting season commences, the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative has kicked off across the country, to provide farmers with fertilizers at affordable rate. A bag is expected to be sold at N5, 500, as against the initial price of N10, 000. This development is the fallout of an agreement signed in December 2016 between the […]
Northern Nigeria Flour Mill yesterday in Kano officially commissioned a Sorghum flour production plant which costs over N2 billion. The chairman, board of directors of the flour mills, Alhaji Aminu Dantata disclosed that the revamped plant situated in Kano would source for sorghum from local farmers, which would culminate into boosting the economy of the […]
As part of efforts, led by the Government, to restore livelihoods and combat critical levels of food insecurity and malnutrition in areas affected by Boko Haram violence, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has began the distribution of emergency seeds and fertilisers to over 1million farmers in North-east Nigeria In a statement to […]
Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu says efforts to get the nation out of its present economic challenges is beginning to yield positive results, especially in the area of agriculture. The presidential aide said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. According to him, an increase in the volume of rice production and processing across […]
The chairman, Senate committee on Air Force, Senator Duro Faseyi, has stressed the need for government at all levels to create a conducive atmosphere for the youths in order to encourage them to participate actively in food production. He said it was unfortunate that Nigeria spends more on importation of food stuff than production, urging […]
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. […]
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 […]
An expert in food and crops production, Jude Ohanele, has appealed to government at all levels to provide more farm inputs and implements for enhanced food production for farmers in Imo State. Ohanele, who disclosed this in Owerri, emphasised the importance of consuming Vitamin ‘A’ cassava, stressing that its production in large quantity would help […]
Two South African innovators in the agriculture industry, Reel Gardening and Meat Naturally, will on Wednesday battle it out against 48 other agripreneurs for the title of Agripreneur of the Year. As part of agriculture innovation hub Future Agro Challenge’s (FAC’s) Global Championships, held in collaboration with the Securing Water for Food Grand Challenge, in […]
Oxfam in Nigeria has called on the government to demonstrate the political will to create a macro-economic policy environment that increases women’s productive capacity as full economic agents. IT also canvassed increased investments in the agricultural sector. Its Associate Country Director, Evelyn Mere made the call in Abuja at the 2017 International Women Day, with […]
Agriculture has been a beneficiary of steps to counter effects of dollar shortage Young men, ageing widows and local chiefs — even civil servants — have taken to the fields to work in rice paddies that stretch for miles around Tarasa, a village in Kebbi State. Two years ago, the land in one of the […]