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Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Tuesday described agriculture as the abandoned pathway to Nigeria’s economic diversification from oil and national prosperity. Osinbajo, who made the remark at the inauguration of the Edo State Fertiliser and Chemical Company Limited, located in Auchi, Etsako West local government area of the State, also identified the lack of […]
The Equipment Leasing Association of Nigeria (ELAN), has said to grow the nation’s economy out of recession, there is a need for government to utilise leasing for national economic development. Addressing journalists at a training in Lagos, the Executive Secretary, ELAN, Andrew Efurhievwe, said “leasing attributes, which centre on easy and convenient access to capital […]
Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the world with the production capacity of approximately 45 million tonnes which is almost 19 per cent of the total cassava production in the world. Cassava, which is raw materials for countless products, has served as food for families especially in the rural areas as the popular […]
Civil society groups have rejected a plan by the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to grow genetically-modified cassava in the country. The Health of Mother Earth Foundation, along with 87 others civil society groups, disclosed their position in a statement. The HOMEF Biosafety Project Manager, Joyce Okeoghene, said the IITA admitted that such approval […]
The Edo State Government and WACOT Limited will receive the Vice President of Nigeria – Professor Yemi Osibanjo, on Tuesday, August 29, 2017, to commission the Edo State Fertilizer and Chemical Company Limited (ESFCCL) located in Auchi, Edo State. The Edo Fertilizer plant was rehabilitated by WACOT Limited in collaboration with Edo State Government, under […]
The Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, said the federal government will soon establish commodities’ certification centres across the six geo-political zones to aid certification and standardisation. Mr. Ogbeh made the disclosure in Kano on Monday during the flag-off of the nationwide advocacy on agricultural quality control and standardization. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that […]
Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, on Monday, said that Nigeria would attain self-sufficiency in rice production by the end of 2017. Ogbeh gave this assurance at the First International Cocoa Summit, organised by the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment in collaboration with Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CAN) in […]
The Anambra Commissioner for Agriculture, Chief Afam Mbanefo, has warned vegetable oil millers to desist from adulterating their products in the interest of public health. Mbanefo gave the warning on Thursday in Awka during a stakeholders’ meeting on protecting consumers from adulterated vegetable oil which might have found their way into the market. According to […]
Misau, who represents Bauchi Central in the Senate, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday. A National Assembly member, Senator Isah Misau, has urged the Federal Government to pay more attention to measures that would boost mechanised farming in its quest to diversify the economy. Misau, […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that agriculture is a sure path through which Nigeria would exit the current economic recession its currently in. Speaking in Jalingo, the state capital, thursday while inaugurating the multi-billion naira Agro Green House Farm constructed by the Governor Darius Ishaku administration, the vice president stated that agriculture has the […]
The national President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria AFAN, Kabir Ibrahim said farmers in Nigeria have not had it so good in the aspects of production and marketing of farm produce since the last twenty years like its experiencing now. He made the revelation in an interview with TVC News Katsina Correspondent. He said […]
Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo has urged ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to focus its efforts on support for agriculture, which is the easiest way to provide jobs for the young people of the region. Speaking at the opening of 15th ordinary meeting of the Board of Governors of EBID in Abuja on […]
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), says it is working to access the $30 billion agricultural grant contributed by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other donor agencies for rice production in Africa. National President of the association, Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday that the association had submitted a template […]
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) has said it will soon engage 10,000 youths to nurse two million dates and palm oil tree farming in the country. The Director-General of NDE, Dr. Nasiru Argungu, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Sokoto. Argungu said that the scheme was part of the […]
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State on Wednesday says the state is ready to grant land and tax incentives to investors, to revolutionise agriculture and promote investments in various sectors. Ganduje said this at the 2017 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Lagos with the theme “African Business: Penetrating through Institution […]