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[ad_1] Nigeria’s foremost agribusiness lender, Unity Bank Plc, has said it will provide additional funding to no fewer than 120,000 smallholder maize farmers in Nigeria in the 2021 wet season farming in Nigeria. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Mrs. Tomi Somefun, disclosed this while delivering a goodwill message at the unveiling of the […]

[ad_1] Chronic hunger and famine, arising from the rising cost of food crops and other agro commodities appear to be hitting many parts of the country. Indeed, Nigerians, especially the low-income earners and the vulnerable are facing a hard time, as the situation is becoming unbearable. Observation reveals that the market price of foodstuffs has […]

[ad_1] Nigeria may be losing $1b yearly to the consumption of aflatoxin-contaminated foods, which result in diseases such as liver cancer and stunted growth, among other diseases, a recent study has shown. Based on this, stakeholders in the sector have urged the Federal Government to put in place legislation that would ensure farmers use Aflasafe […]

[ad_1] The Lagos State Government has revealed that its World Bank-assisted Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project would be constructing and rehabilitating no fewer than 13.16km farm access roads in four cluster areas across the state. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya who said this in Lagos, explained that the […]

[ad_1] Aderonke Eko-Aderinoye, founder of Agrihub Nigeria, says farmers face more pressing issues. Aderonke Eko-Aderinoye is the founder of Agrihub Nigeria. She is a trained agribusiness coach and cultivates orange-fleshed sweet potatoes but currently is into food processing. Ms Eko-Aderinoye owns her business in Ogun State. In this episode of our Women in Agriculture, she […]

[ad_1] Some stakeholders in the agriculture sector have appealed to the Federal Government to intensify efforts in curbing banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism, as these can threaten food security. The stakeholders made the appeal in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. They noted that the recent increase in kidnapping […]

[ad_1] Farmers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday announced that they have cleared their farmlands in readiness for the 2021 planting. According to them, they will earnestly begin farm work by planting crops suitable for the rainy season which has just commenced. Some of the farmers, who spoke with the News Agency of […]

[ad_1] Some stakeholders in the agriculture sector have appealed to the Federal Government to intensify efforts in curbing banditry, kidnapping and terrorism, as these can threaten food security. The stakeholders made the appeal in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. They noted that the recent increase in kidnapping […]

[ad_1] Lagos State Government says its World Bank-assisted Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement, Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project will construct 13.16km Farm Access Roads (FARs) in four cluster areas. The state Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya, said this on Thursday during the activities to commemorate the second year of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration. Olusanya noted that […]

[ad_1] The Nigeria wheat value chain has been said to account for over 10.5 million jobs generated annually.The development, according to Ashish Pande, Managing Director of Crown Flour Mill, a subsidiary of Olam Nigeria, has placed the wheat value chain at the centre of the various economic development agenda of the Federal Government of Nigeria.Pande […]

[ad_1] LAGOS – Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have shared their experiences on how each of them and their associations have benefitted from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s Anchors Borrowers Programme. The farmers pointed out that lack of finance and absence of off-taking arrangements that guarantee price stability and assured markets have been the […]

[ad_1] Palm oil, a product gotten from the processing of fresh fruit bunch {oil palm tree} forms an important part of the local diet in Nigeria because animal fats such as milk and butter are hardly consumed.   It is used both as a cooking material and as an ingredient in soups, sauces and a variety […]

[ad_1] The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said its World Bank-assisted Agro Processin, Productivity Enhancement, Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project will begin the construction of 13.16km Farm Access Roads (FARs) in four cluster areas in the state. Sanwo-Olu made this known on Thursday through the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, during the […]

[ad_1] Lagos State Government, through its World Bank-assisted Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support, APPEALS, Project, said out of identified and verified 9,942 farmers and Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, SMEs,  8,156 of them had received series of training in relevant areas of agribusiness with a view to enhancing their agricultural productivity and improving […]