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Agriculture has been a beneficiary of steps to counter effects of dollar shortage Young men, ageing widows and local chiefs — even civil servants — have taken to the fields to work in rice paddies that stretch for miles around Tarasa, a village in Kebbi State. Two years ago, the land in one of the […]
The President, Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEBSAN), Thomas Etuh has said the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative has eliminated subsidy on fertiliser by saving at least N60billion in budgetary Provisions in fertiliser supply for 2017. He also said the initiative “would boost foreign exchange savings of $200 million by maximising local content” Media recalls […]
The Feed Nigeria Summit, is partnering the Federal Government to increase the production of foods – which have not kept pace with demand, its Director–General, Mr. Richard Mbaram has said. Mbaram said a summit had been scheduled for between April 6 and 7 , at International Hotel,Victoria Island, Lagos to discuss strategies to drive progress […]
The Presidential Fertilizer Initiative of the Buhari Administration has started yielding results, with the production of more than 4,000 metric tonnes of locally-blended fertilizer in the first week of operation. According to a statement by the spokesman of the acting president, Laolu Akande, the Initiative was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in December 2016, to […]
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri on Thursday revealed that over 100 vehicles were carted away by some yet to be named officials. Lokpobiri who disclosed this in Abuja, did not mention the suspects, but he however said that the vehicles were being recovered with the help of the […]
The federal government through the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh on Thursday inaugurated a technical committee on Yam Export Programme. The minister assured that the aim was for Nigeria to take advantage of the global yam market in which she remains the highest producer. According to Ogbeh” Nigeria has the highest […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says the Federal Government is targeting the production of seven million tonnes of rice by 2018. Briefing newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, Ogbeh said that the target, which would be achieved by the second quarter of 2018, was to meet the national consumption rate. “I […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has assured that the $4.5bn that will come to the agriculture sector from the Chinese government as grant to Nigeria would be used to effectively boost agric mechanization even as he noted that the grant must be approached with caution. It would be recalled that […]
Towards the upliftment of farmers’ livelihood, companies using agricultural produce as raw materials have been urged to source for their raw materials locally, to boost the country’s economy. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who stated this during his visit to Nestle’s state of the art Flowergate Factory in Sagamu, Ogun State, […]
The Federal Governments has been advised to follow the Indian example of mechanized agriculture if the country must be self sufficient in food production. The Acting Executive Secretary, Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria-ARCN, Professor Ambrose Voh, stated this in Kaduna, while declaring open a three-day workshop on Integrated Safe Fertility Management-ISFM for Livelihood Impact organized […]
Although agriculture was up against diverse obstacles in 2016, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has expressed its determination to ride out the storm in 2017 by embarking on many ambitious projects. This viewpoint was made known by the Minister, Chief Audu Ogbeh, at the inauguration of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) […]
Agriculture Solution Nigeria Economy, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take seriously the diversification efforts of his government from oil to agriculture with a view of bailing the country out of its current economic downturn. Apart from the government, Obasanjo also charged all […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised Nigerians that the change they voted for in 2015 will manifest more through agriculture in the new year 2017 that is already here. He also said that the era of over-dependence on oil for foreign exchange revenues is gradually waning as agriculture is picking. Nigeria’s agricultural revolution has begun with […]
The Presidency has warned that Nigeria, currently Africa’s largest producer of cereals and grains risks famine from early next year following a huge demand in the global market that is targeting the country’s surplus production. Giving the grim forecast in a radio interview in Kano on Monday, a spokesman of the president on media and […]
Lettuce, a once affordable vegetable is now one of the most expensive in Abuja markets. The recent trend has been blamed on lack of fertiliser and poor storage of the perishable plant. Our reporters, who were at Utako and Kubwa markets, spoke with some vegetable sellers to ascertain the cause of the recent hike in […]