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The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) will distribute fertilisers, seeds and other inputs to 560,000 displaced persons for dry season farming in northeast. Ms. Divya Sama, FOA’s Communications Officer, North East Field Office, said in a statement released in Maiduguri on Friday that 70,000 households would receive assorted fertilisers, seeds and tools, to accelerate vegetables […]
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, […]
A 72-year-old grandmother, Victoria Akinseye, was in tears as she displayed the torn under wears she wore the day suspected herdsmen took turns to rape her on her farm in Ore, Odigbo council area of Ondo State. Victoria said the herdsmen had done the unthinkable and would reap the fruit of their wickedness to her. […]
A coalition of all youths in Olokoro clan, comprising of fifteen autonomous communities is set to benefit from the Nigerian agricultural industry using fish farming as a model. This is because fish farming in Nigeria is important as one of the most prominent aspects of the Nigerian Agricultural Industry with over sixty percent of the […]
Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe, on Friday implored banks to slash their lending rates to farmers in order to boost agricultural productivity in the country. “We pray for banks to lower their interest rates because in a sense, they are an inhibition to progress and development,” Mugabe said while opening the annual Harare Agriculture Show. Zimbabwe’s […]
I will start with a question to jog your mind. How many ways can you vaccinate chicken? Last week, my chicks turned nine weeks and it was time to administer the fowl typhoid intramuscular (IM) injection as per the recommended schedule (Seeds of Gold, July 22). Please, don’t confuse fowl typhoid with fowl pox vaccine […]
Production of exotic vegetables and fresh farm produce are some of the key ways the Taraba state government has embarked on, as a means of using agriculture to diversify its economy. Governor Darius Ishaku disclosed this at the launch of Taraba Vegetables Farm by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during a one-day state visit where some […]
Agribank will provide free mentorships to farmers in order to facilitate transferring skills and knowledge. In a statement to the media yesterday, Agribank’s manager for Agricultural Advisory Services Division, Elaine Smith said the mentorship programme will be offered to identified farmers on condition they sign a mentorship and training agreement. Smith said the farmers would […]
Buy Uganda Build Uganda (BUBU) is a new magazine that made its first street appearance only this August. Your columnist’s first impression of BUBU is that it is out to persuade Ugandans to engage in practical patriotism by prioritising Ugandan goods and enterprises that promote national economic development. It has an interesting commentary about the […]
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 Northern Elders’ Forum, NEF, has lampooned the Federal Government for failing to take decisive steps to end the escalating clashes between herdsmen and local farmers in parts of the country. Speaking yesterday when the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, hosted members of the NEF in Makurdi, Assistant Secretary of the forum, Alhaji Mustapha Wali, […]
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 […]