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Mr Ibrahim Atakunya, community leader of Rije Community in Kuje Area Council, FCT, has called on herdsmen to avoid grazing on farmlands to avert clashes and food crisis in the area. Atakunya made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kuje on Saturday. He said it was against any […]
The Brotherhood All Youth Assembly (BAYA), an umbrella body of all the youth organisations in the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS), has unveiled plans to introduce agricultural entrepreneurship into its framework, to train youths on contributing to improving the nation’s economy. BCS spokesman, Christ Ambassador Edet Archibong, stated this while briefing newsmen on […]
Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has lauded the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, and WACOT Limited for joining forces to revitalise a fertiliser plant, which had been non-functional for about 14 years in the state. The Vice President, who made the commendation recently at the commissioning of the Edo Fertiliser and Chemical Company Limited, […]
Mr Ibrahim Atakunya, community leader of Rije Community in Kuje Area Council, FCT, has called on herdsmen to avoid grazing on farmlands to avert clashes and food crisis in the area. Atakunya made the call in an interview with newsmen in Kuje on Saturday. He said it was against any moral and cultural norm for […]
Some farmers in Maiduguri have expressed optimism of recording bumper harvests in the 2017 cropping season. They also commended the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for supporting displaced farmers to return to their farms. Thousands of displaced farmers supported by FAO cultivated their farmlands in Maiduguri and other liberated communities. FAO in collaboration with implementing […]
The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, is currently in Indonesia to deepen his administration’s partnership with the Asian country, in a bid to revamp the agricultural sector and reposition the state as the oil palm capital of Nigeria. Speaking at the 101-year-old Indonesian Oil Palm Research Institute in Medan, Indonesia, Obaseki said his […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has flagged-off the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) for poultry farmers in Lagos State, with the distribution of 10,000 day old chicks to members of the Erikorodo Poultry Estate Farmers Association, Ikorodu. The flag off, in collaboration with Bank of Industry (BoI) and Amo Farms, was in line with the […]
Mr Agene Thomas, Director of Crops, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Lokoja office, has called from a shift in agricultural sector management to achieve food security in the country. Thomas said in Abuja on Monday that there would be increase in agricultural productivity through the use of small machines, liquid fertiliser and loans. […]
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 […]
A member representing Obokun State Constituency in the Osun State House of Assembly, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye has distributed farm inputs and several empowerment materials to farmers and other residents of his constituency. About one 1,000 constituents including, 125 farmers, 65 widows, 83 senior citizens and 486 vulnerable individuals benefited from the empowerment initiative. Some of the […]
“AGRICULTURE has been identified as a major source of revenue generation for Oyo State government if the various abounding opportunities in the agricultural potentials of the state are adequately and properly utilised. A former Chief of Staff to the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and one of the governorship aspirants in the state, Professor Adeolu […]
Yobe State Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) has disclosed plans to train farmers on modern farming techniques under semi-arid weather and soil conditions. The Programme Manager of ADP, Mustapha Goggobe, disclosed this at the weekend while addressing farmers and agricultural extension workers at the state’s secretariat complex, Damaturu He said the scheme would be done in […]
Production of exotic vegetables and fresh farm produce are some of the key ways the Taraba state government has embarked on, as a means of using agriculture to diversify its economy. Governor Darius Ishaku disclosed this at the launch of Taraba Vegetables Farm by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during a one-day state visit where some […]
FADAMA III AFII project in Yobe state has trained agricultural specialists on modern agricultural extension and data capturing to improve the livelihood of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who have returned to farming in the liberated communities. Speaking during the closure of a three-day workshop organised by project in Damaturu, the state coordinator, Musa Garba, said […]
The Akwa Ibom Government says adequate arrangements have been made to ensure the state’s automated fertiliser blending plant comes on stream in 2018. Richard Ekpe, Director of Agriculture and Food Sufficiency stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo. He said the state had already gone into a Private […]