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Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue has urged the citizens of the state to engage in dry season farming. The governor made the call on Tuesday in Makurdi while launching the unified standard weights and measures which would be used in all markets across the state. Ortom said that research had revealed that dry season farming […]
To achieve rice sufficiency, Kebbi State is partnering WACOT Rice Limited on the commodity production. WACOT Rice, a member of TGI Group, is helping Nigeria to regain its status as a top rice producer. It has invested in rice processing plants. To this end, the company is supporting the Kebbi government to roll out sustainable […]
The Kwara State House of Assembly, particularly the 8th Legislature, for the umpteenth time has not only proven its acumen in lawmaking business, but the members have on several occasions demonstrated to other lawmakers in Nigeria how things should be done to impact positively on the lives of their constituents. This, the 8th Assembly has […]
Some farmers in Gombe State have accused the Bank of Agriculture, BOA, and the state Ministry of Agriculture of distorting the Nigerian government agriculture loan facility under the Anchor Borrowers Programme. The Secretary of the All Lower Farmers Association (ALFA), Sani Idris, expressed the grievances of the farmers when he addressed journalists in Gombe on […]
The Adamawa government has approved N300 million for the construction of an earth dam in Nasarawo, in Demsa Local Government Area. Alhaji Rufa’i Ahmed, Commissioner for Water Resources, told journalists shortly after the state executive council meeting in Yola that the dam, when constructed, would end the problem of water supply as well as enhance […]
Desirous to curtail worrisome activities of herdsmen across the state, the Ondo State government yesterday said an anti-grazing law is in the works. Reports of killings, destruction of farmlands and rape abound across the state. Last week, a farmer, Orimisan Balogun, was hacked to death by rampaging herdsmen in Ore area of the state for […]
The eighth legislature of the Kwara House of Assembly has established 300 hectares of farmland in Ejidongari, Moro Local Government Area of the state. The farm which is non-governmental and profit-oriented is owned by the 24 members including the Speaker, Dr Ali Ahmad. The initiative of the house focuses on the determination of the present […]
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 […]
This year’s dry season rice farming in Kebbi State does not seem to be as profitable to farmers as last year’s when many farmers in the state claimed they recorded bumper harvest and huge profit. Their story is different this year as some of them are already lamenting huge losses they incurred due to poor […]
Another 284 unemployed graduates in the State of Osun have been trained in agriculture to reduce unemployment rates and to boost food production in the state. They were trained under FADAMA 111 projects, tagged FADAMA “Guys” Training, initiated by the Federal Government in collaboration with Osun government and the World Bank. Speaking at the end […]
Ondo State governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, yesterday, presented N215million cheques and farm inputs to farmers in the state. The gesture was under the Fadama 3 Additional Financing Project. Akeredolu said in Akure during the ceremony that his administration would not relent in its determination to encourage more people, especially youths, to embrace agriculture as an […]
The Osun State House of Assembly has read riot act over the poor attitudes of Forest Guards towards the forest protection in the state. Chairman, House Committee on Environment and Sanitation, Honourable Ajibola Akinloye conveyed the dissatisfaction of the parliament during a stakeholders’ meeting between his committee and officials of Forestry Department of the Ministry […]
Jigawa Government on Tuesday announced plans to distribute ultra-modern mini rice mills, harvesters and other implements to boost rice production in the state. Alhaji Jamilu Usaman-Danmalam, Special Adviser to the state governor on Rice Production and Value Chain said the implements would be distributed to youths under the government cluster farming scheme. The special adviser […]
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno state on Tuesday confirmed that Boko Haram insurgents had killed 31 fishermen at Baga in Kukawa Local Government Area of the state. Shettima made the confirmation at the presentation of relief materials donated to the state by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to the Internally Displaced Persons […]
— 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, […]