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Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River has restated his administration’s commitment to developing agriculture towards the industrialisation of the state. He added that government had embarked on a massive agro-industrial transformation to accelerate economic growth in the state. READ MORE: Delta Govt warns Palm, Rubber plantation owners against withholding staff wages Ayade, during a visit to […]
Lovers of yam may have to pay higher for the popular root crop this year in Enugu State as the price has gone up by 40 per cent. This is according to a market survey conducted by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Enugu. NAN report that 100 tubers of yam known in […]
Officials from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and representatives of the Nasarawa State government have met and agreed on modalities for accessing a N1.5bn credit facility to assist youths across the state in establishing agribusinesses. Chairman of the committee set up by the state […]
The Delta State Commissioner for Agriculture, Hon. Julius Egbedi yesterday flagged off the Patani Local Government Council Agricultural Revolution 2019. PLOGCAR was flagged off with a call on other Council Chairmen to emulate same. The program, a brainchild of Barr Perez Omoun, Patani Council boss had 200 persons smiling home with grants and 52 others […]
Edo Government says no fewer than 2, 000 farmers are benefiting from over 10,600 hectares agricultural project in different parts of the state. The special adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr Crusoe Osagie, made this known in a statement in Benin on Tuesday. Osagie said that the State Government embarked on […]
Delta state government has warned rubber and palm plantation owners against withholding wages of their staff under the guise of deductions for dues and cooperative societies. The state governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, handed down the warning while addressing members of the National Union of Agriculture and Allied Employees, NUAAE when the Solidarity Centre in collaboration […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Sunday, said it had supported the cultivation of 2,000 hectares out-grower farms in Borno to produce improved variety seedlings and accelerate paddy rice production. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the seeds nurseries were established at Dusuman and Zabalmari villages in Konduga Local Government Area of […]
The Kano State Agro-Pastoral Development Project, will be formally unveiled by December. The Manager, Agriculture Global Practice(Economic and Social Infrastructure), Islamic Development Bank, Mr. Nur Abdi, revealed this, yesterday, at a meeting with the state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. The Islamic Development Bank is contributing $90 million to the project, while the Kano State […]
The Lagos State Government has asked the private sector to tap into the agricultural potential of the state for Lagos to be self sufficient. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Gbolahan Lawal, called on stakeholders to treat agriculture as a combination of business and development platform by concentrating on value chains where the state had comparative advantage. […]
Flood: Govt. urges farmers to insure farms Mr Adegboyega Adefarati, the Ondo State Commissioner for Agriculture, on Wednesday urged farmers in the state to register their farms with the agricultural insurance scheme to avoid total loss after natural disasters. Adefarati gave this advice after the tour of rice and vegetable farms destroyed by flood at […]
The recent 3rd edition of the First Bank Agric Expo in Lagos was an opportunity for some states in the country to share strategies for driving the Agric sector which is a critical contributor to the local economy. Mr. Akinola Olotu Senior Special Adviser on Agric and Agribusiness to the Ondo State Government gave a […]
In a new public-private partnership, Kaduna state government and farmer-owned Arla Foods are committing to further development of a long-term sustainable dairy industry and local dairy sector in Nigeria by helping 1,000 small scale farmers create better livelihoods. Already active in existing development projects within the dairy industry, Kaduna state, Arla and the federal government […]
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Monday, signed the bill establishing the Edo State College of Agriculture and Natural Resources into law. He said the essence of the law was to have three schools of agriculture that would be training the needed manpower to drive and sustain the ongoing reforms in the agricultural sector in […]
Soybean farmers in Benue State are optimistic of bumper harvest this year despite the challenge of inadequate and high cost of fertiliser in the market. A soybean farmer in Gboko, Titus Atondo, told our correspondent in Makurdi that he expected bumper harvest this year. He said his eight-hectare soybean farm located at Mbatiav in Gboko […]
It has been revealed that 32, 721 farmers have applied for agricultural intervention across value chain through the Agro-processing Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Support Project (APPEALS). Its developed data base showed that out of this number, 11, 210 farmers met the criteria. However, only 2, 521 were said to have been randomly selected for screening. […]