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[FILE PHOTO] Fall Armyworms The Country Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Suffyan Koroma, has said that Army worms have caused agricultural damage worth $268 million (N76.48 billion). Suffyan disclosed this on Wednesday in a FAO Situation Report of November, 2018, released in Maiduguri. “Since first observed in 2016, the pest has caused […]
People load their possessions in a car as they evacuate the Ganaropp village in the Barikin Ladi area near Jos on June 27, 2018. Plateau State in Nigeria has seen days of violence where more than 200 people have been killed in clashes between Berom farmers and Fulani herders, Nigeria is facing an escalation in […]
ActionAid Country Director, Ojobo Atuluku The Justice, Development and Peace Centre (JDPC), Ondo State chapter, has faulted the poor priority given to agricultural extension services in the state, warning that it will serve as an obstacle to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in 2030. The JDPC Director, Rev Fr. Damian Adesegha, said this […]
Cocoa Some young people, especially graduates, see cocoa farming as a poorly rewarding business meant for only the aged people who have resigned to fate. They think farmers, and by extension cocoa producers, have nothing else to show for their labour and drudgery except a beggarly existence. These perceptions are not only false but also […]
Prof. Olubunmi Omotesho, University of Ilorin, on Tuesday said the problems of agriculture in Nigeria and Africa could be attributed mainly to climate change. Omotesho made this known at a two-day Policy Dialogue on Crop/Livestock Integration, organised by Synergos Nigeria, in collaboration with other stakeholders in Abuja. He said that climate change, which resulted in […]
Solar panels In line with ongoing efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, the Food andAgriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has commissioned solar-powered boreholes in three (3) arid states of Northern Nigeria, to boost access to water for domestic use and agricultural practice. The intervention is provided through the Action Against Desertification […]
The federal government says it is considering fixing a guaranteed minimum price for agricultural produce to reduce the fluctuating and high cost of commodities. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between tractor companies and Agriculture Mechanisation Company. […]
The Federal Government says it is considering fixing a guaranteed minimum price for agricultural produce to reduce the fluctuating and high cost of commodities. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, disclosed this in Abuja at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between tractor companies and Agriculture Mechanisation Company. Ogbeh […]
File Photo: Children benefiting from Home Growth School Feeding Programme of the Buhari administration By Ifeanyi Nwoko The Home Grown School Feeding Programme, one of the packages under the Federal Government’s Social Intervention Programme (SIP) has created wealth for over 250,000 farmers, cooks and others involved in the scheme. According to statistics made available during […]
(2nd R) Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Aisha Abubakar; Deputy Governor of jigawa State, Ibrahim Hassan, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed; Governor of Jigawa State Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbe at a Special Town Hall Meeting on Agriculture in Dutse, Jigawa State, on […]
Nigeria’s Information and Culture Minister Mr Lai Mohammed promises never to contest for any post in 2019 general election but focuses on liberating Kwara State. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that the Federal Government expended N2.7 trillion on agriculture and provision of other critical infrastructure in the 2017 budget. […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has identified Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) and ZSoonosis as one of the major challenges constraining the country’s agricultural sector. Zoonosis is animal diseases transferable to man. Mr Suffyan Koroma, the FAO Country Representative made this known in Abuja at a three-day training on Good Emergency Management Practices (GEMP). Kotoma, […]
Chief Audu Ogbe Minister of Agriculture Mills By Ginika Okoye The Federal Government has commenced distribution of cattle feed mills and rice milling machines to increase local rice production and end farmers/herdsmen clashes across the country. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the move was also to use agricultural wastes […]
The Minister of agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria Mr. Audu Ogbeh have commenced the distribution of farm equipment aimed at easing farmers burden and also gradually bring an end to farmer-herders’ clashes in the country. Speaking during the presentation of the equipment to youth cooperatives in Oja village, Okpomaju in Otukpo Local Government Area […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, yesterday expressed displeasure at the use of chemicals for food preservation and fruit ripening. Ogbeh said in an interview with journalists in Otukpo, Benue, that the act was detrimental to human health and the environment. “Sniper is very dangerous; people also use carbide to ripen […]