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Reports emanating from reliable sources in the middle belt region of Nigeria have it that agro stakeholders and yam farmers in Benue State presently have their farmlands fully prepared as they await the rainy season to kick-start cultivation of their yam seedlings. The information was confirmed in Makurdi as a host of farmers revealed to […]
The supreme international governing body’s, UN (United Nations) Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has expressed in optimism their plan to upscale food security in the North-east through their partnership with Yobe State government. Sufiyan Koroma, who is the organisation’s representative in Nigeria, confirmed this information during a courtesy visit to the resident of the State […]
With the present state of agriculture in need of critical elevation in Nigeria, the World Bank has thought it wise to come up with a sensitisation programme in collaboration with the Kaduna State Ministry of Agriculture to enlighten small and medium scale farmers on the adaptation of modern trends of cultivation applied to upscale agricultural […]
With the the usage of Substandard seeds and adulterated inputs in the country’s agricultural sector becoming rampant, Nigeria’s food security has been projected by agro-scientists who are presently predicting looming dangers ahead as regards the health threatening inputs in the cultivation of food crops in the country. Factual researches have come up with evidence over […]
Reliable sources can reveal the recent lamentations coming from the Seed Entrepreneurs Association of Nigeria (SEEDAN) concerning the difficulties faced by members of the association as regards expected payments for the seeds sold to the Federal Government. While complaining about the uncurbed indebtedness of the government to their members, SEEDAN maintain that the seed sector […]
With the agro sector of Nigeria gradually shaping itself on course for a significant revolution, patronage of a particular agricultural produce popularly known as ‘tigernuts’ which is presently gaining grounds as a new money-spinner for agro entrepreneur in the country. The highly consumed agricultural produce is identified with different names according to ethnicity and tribal […]
With the recently deliberated plan to place a ban on the importation of tomato paste in the country, the Federal Government of Nigeria has been urged by the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Niger, on Saturday to come up with the right structures before banning importation of tomato paste into the country. The […]
Kogi state is on the cusp of experiencing boom in its agricultural sector, as it has been announced that the World Bank assisted Agro Processing Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood improvement Support (APPEALS) Project has made provision for a $200 million grant to assist about 10,000 farmers and agriculturists across 50,000 households residing within the state. […]
Executive Director, Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Prof. Ibrahim Umar-Abubakar, confirmed on Tuesday the latest development in the institute as they just released 17 new improved crop varieties that are climate resilient. He revealed the good news at the recently commissioned Balarabe Tanimu Conference Hall, IAR, Zaria, Kaduna during the 2019 Annual Research Review and […]
Osun State chapter of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), are reportedly expressing their dissatisfaction concerning the unavailability of money in circulation, attributing it as one of the main factors hampering the purchasing power of residents to buy farm produce. Osun Vice President of AFAN, Moses Oladipupo, disclosed this during an interview on Wednesday […]
In its quest to upscale activities in the agricultural sector of Nigeria, National Chairman of Agro Dealers Association (ADA), Alhaji Kabiru Umar-Fara has exposed the plans of the Federal Government who have confirmed to begin payment of the N10.3 billion debt owed Agro-dealers in the country. The massive debt which was accumulated during former President, […]
Even before her independence, Nigeria has always been known as a nation blessed with numerous natural resources within its confines, especially the admirable presence of flourishing agriculture which is known to have persistently active in paying its dues to the growth of the economy. Thus, while keeping the spectacle on the positives, the need for […]
Chief Operating Officer of Agro Park Development Company, Tunde Oyelade, has divulged that the Lagos and Ogun state based value addition agro-allied company is close to inaugurate an integrated agro-processing industrial park in the next three months (precisely July) of this year. The company confirmed that production plants which are required machinery for efficient processing […]
Prof. Olawole Obembe, who is a professor of Biotechnology at Covenant University expressed his notion about the available opportunities that plant biotechnology has in the offing for both Africa and the world, as it could help suppress the constraints of increasing demands for food, feeds and fibre production, including the need for well-being and healthy […]
With the aim of improving the agricultural sector of the country, recent reports have it that a Memorandum of Understanding has been agreed upon and successfully signed by the Nigerian Agricultural Mechanisation and Equipment Leasing (NAMEL) and Mantrac Nigeria to open up an additional 500,000 hectares of farmland to boost mechanised farming in the country. […]