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Young farmers on the platform of Fresh and Young Brains Development Initiative yesterday launched the National Youth Manifesto on Agriculture for Nigeria. CEO and Founder of the Initiative,Barr. Nkiruka Nnaemego said the Youth Manifesto developed in 2013 would be a national Blueprint to guide government and her partners on the felt needs and aspirations of […]
Forty thousand millionaires have been created from the ranks of ordinary people in Kebbi State through agriculture since the coming of the present administration two years ago. This was disclosed by Audu Ogbe, the minister of agriculture in an exclusive interview with our correspondent. He also disclosed that 68 per cent of those who went […]
Hinges Importance Of Soil To Food Security To solve the challenges of food and nutrition security, stakeholders in food production have called on the Federal Government to formulate policies that will make companies and individuals importing foods into Nigeria to contribute to research funding as part of ways to discourage food importation. Professor of Soil […]
The Kogi Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Kehinde Oloruntoba, has called on Nigerians to fast-track efforts to diversify the nation’s economy through agriculture via their adoption of gender-sensitive agricultural practices. Oloruntoba made the call on Thursday in Lokoja at the meeting of the Core Delivery Team (CDT) of the State Partnership for Agriculture (SPA) on “Agricultural […]
Consumer products giant, Unilever Plc and the Federal Institute for Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) are poised to seal a bilateral agreement on commercialisation of some of the research products of the institute. This was disclosed when a technical team from Unilever Plc visited FIIRO office in Lagos. On the occasion, FIIRO Director-General Prof Gloria Elemo […]
The business community in Kano State has raised alarm over the recent millet scarcity being experienced in most Kano markets and the skyrocketing of the grain’s price. A grain merchant at Dawanau grain market, Alhaji Danumma Saye, observed that the scarcity being experienced is as a result of some grains hoarding syndicates that were busy […]
Farmers in Benue State have expressed worry over the parasitic insects infestation of most cowpea (beans) farms which are threatening their harvest expected in the next few weeks. Our correspondent who visited some cowpea farms in the state reports that the tiny black-looking insects have already affected the pod bearers such that if not adequately […]
Kaduna State Government on Wednesday said it would support women to go into agriculture in order to produce nutritious foods to tackle severe acute malnutrition. Hajiya Ummi El-Rufa’i, Chairperson, Kaduna State Emergency Nutrition Action Plan, made the disclosure at a news briefing in Kaduna on the implementation of the action plan in the state. She […]
The Federal Government has been advised to fully subsidise agriculture to enable farmers make profit and for Nigeria to realise food security. The advice was given by the chief of Mutum-Biyu chiefdom in Taraba State, Alhaji Sani Kachalla, in an interview with Daily Trust. He said Nigerians have answered the call by President Buhari to […]
The Katsina State Government says it has invested N200 million in rice and cotton production under the Anchor Borrowers Programme in the state. Dr Abba Abdullahi, the Special Adviser to Gov. Aminu Masari on Agriculture, disclosed this in Katsina on Tuesday, at the opening of a town hall meeting on the programme. The town hall […]
The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Anambra State, Dr. Tony Nwoye, has promised to entrench an agricultural policy in the state that would help the people of Anambra State develop their agricultural interests to commercial levels using resources from local and international development institutions. Nwoye, according to a statement by his campaign organisation, […]
The apex northern socio-cultural group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Tuesday inaugurated four standing committees namely, Research, Strategy and planning committee, Political, Education and Agricultural committees. The political committee has Professor Ango Abdullahi as Chairman, Arc. Gabriel Aduku Deputy Chairman and Hon. Ado Datti as Secretary, while the Education committee has Professor Iya Abubakar as Chairman, […]
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Monday in Akure signed Memoranda of Understanding with two firms on agricultural projects and appealed for speedy take off of the projects. Akeredolu signed the MoU for the construction of a powderised egg factory with Greenfield Poultry Ltd. The second MoU with Adventum Global Inc, USA, was for […]
Edo State Government has ordered the state Revenue Board to commence the collection of revenues in the Ministries of Agriculture, Environment and Oil and Gas, regretting that government was losing revenues in these sectors. The deputy governor of the state, Mr. Philip Shaibu, who gave the charge during a meeting with Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries and […]
Barely seven days to the commencement of the enforcement of the Open Grazing Prohibition Law in Benue State, Governor Samuel Ortom has said his people will stone him if he failed to implement the new law. Governor Ortom, who spoke at a meeting with the leadership of Maiyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, traditional rulers, local […]