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The cocoa sector in West Africa is facing many well-known problems. That is a fact. And we all acknowledge those problems. Only by joining forces can we solve the challenges and contribute to sustainable growth and development of the cocoa sector. Succeeding in this, will result in increased farmer profitability, economic growth in West-Africa and […]
The Nigeria Farmers Group and Cooperative Society, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to set a time line to ban the importation of maize into the country. The group’s National Coordinator, Mr Redson Tedheke, said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the suspension of the import would protect local […]
Nigerian maize farmers are worried about the commodity’s huge importation into the country. They are concerned it could crowd out local production and now want government to remedy the situation. A tonne of locally produced maize currently sells between one N130,000 to 250,000. The imported one sells lower at N40,000 per tonne. The Nigerian agriculture […]
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, in Kano State has expressed concern over the refusal of most of its members to repay their Anchor Borrowers loans. The association, therefore, expressed the fear that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, might not consider the state for similar facility in future. The state AFAN chairman, Faruk […]
Delta Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has advocated the strengthening agricultural extension services officers to boost food production. Speaking at a one-day interactive session with 2015/17 beneficiaries of Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) and Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme (YAGEP) weekend in Asaba, Okowa said, “Agriculture remains the greatest employer of labour, it is encouraging that […]
With the recent attempt by governments at all levels and development partners in the agricultural sector in ensuring that small holder farmers benefits from all forms of agricultural interventions, it is apparent that such farmers have started gaining ground as they are being encouraged to form groups for easy access to such interventions. Some farmer […]
In the last two years, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, has been in the forefront of increasing the country’s earnings on non-oil export. Perhaps, this necessitated the commission’s resolve to announce in 2016 of its plan to create 1.5 million jobs.At a stakeholders’ workshop in Lagos, Director-General, NEPC, Mr. Segun Awolowo, explained that the […]
Beneficiaries of the Growth and Employment Program (GEM), a World Bank Intervention funds initiated in 2015 have raised alarm over endless delay in accessing the second tranche of the fund, warning that it might go the way of previous intervention programs, if urgent steps are not taken. The fund, administered through the Federal Ministry of […]
Springfield Agro Limited, a subsidiary of Kewalram Chanrai Group, in partnership with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd have launched collaboration with the Katsina State government to begin the Farm-To-Folk initiative with 225 tractors. The programme is an end-to-end farm mechanization solution to develop agriculture and farming system in Nigeria and provide customized farming solutions for every […]
— Victims seek govt intervention An estimated sum of the N100m Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurship Programme (YAGEP) farms were yesterday destroyed by heavy down pour of flood in Ndokwa West Local Government area of Delta state. It was reliably gathered that the farms were encased in pool of water that blighted the prospect of bumper harvest, […]
The Federal Government plans to build Nigeria Heritage Cities in Jeddah, Houston and other cities across the globe that have huge Nigerian populations to serve as one-stop hub for Nigerian foods and products. Speaking in Abuja yesterday, during a luncheon organised to receive a delegation from the Nigeria Initiative for Economic Development, the Executive Director […]
The Nigeria Government is to revive six fertilizer blending plants before the end of the year, through the Infrastructure Unit of its Sovereign Wealth Fund. The Managing Director of Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Mr Uche Orji disclosed this on Monday in Abuja when the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed paid him […]
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has commissioned WACOTRice Limited’s state-of-the-art rice mill, with capacity of processing over 120,000 metric tonnes of paddy per annum. The N10b investment, sited in Argungu, Kebbi State, will also create over 3,500 direct and indirect jobs, as the company participates in the entire rice value chain, from seed multiplication […]
♦ Importation Is The Remedy-Toromade The maize industry is currently challenged by an array of diseases and pests, especially armyworm caterpillar, stem borers; and Corn earworms, among others, which have dealt deadly and devastating blows on maize plantations across the country. That the development is a serious threat to the country’s annual turnover of US$6b […]
Uche Odozor is the Managing Director, AG Aviation Nigeria, operator of Air Tractor, an agricultural plane used for spraying agrochemicals, fertilizer and seeding in large farms. In this interview, he explained how state governments and commercial farmers in the country could leverage on cheap and affordable air tractors for massive food production. Excerpts: How would […]