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The Kogi State Government has commenced massive rice production across the state in collaboration with the World Bank and Federal Government assisted FADAMA III Additional Financing (AF) project in the state. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Kehinde Oloruntoba, who spoke during an inspection tour to some of the already cultivated 4,000 hectares of Fadama rice […]
In its bid to ensure agricultural development and improve healthcare delivery, the Caretaker Management Committee of the Obokun Local Government has distributed cocoa seedlings to farmers and drugs to health centres across all towns in the Local Government Area. The Executive Secretary of the council, Alhaji Oladiran Ashaolu, during the distribution of the materials on […]
To say that the discovery of crude oil in the late 1950s in Oloibiri community of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, was the last straw that destroyed the Nigerian agricultural nerve is to state the obvious. Before the discovery of this product that has been given different names including black gold, Nigeria ran an agrarian economy with […]
The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has on Saturday inaugurated a five-man board for SKYRUN Cocoa Processing Industry, Ede, Osun state in a bid to improve on cocoa production in the state and turn Osun to a hub of Chinese investment in Nigeria. This was even as the Chairman of the Shanghai Golden Monkey […]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, will inaugurate a new world-class fertiliser plant built by Indorama Eleme Fertiliser and Chemicals Limited, today in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In a statement by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, the plant with production capacity for 1.5 million Metric Tons of Urea fertiliser is considered the world’s largest single-train Urea plant. According […]
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Komptu Idris have been called upon to intervene and bring to an end the menace of fake fertiliser sales and circulation in Yobe State by some unpatriotic citizens. Sparking to journalists in his office, the Yobe State chairman of Fertiliser Sales Association, Potiskum branch, Alhaji Ali Maitaki. According […]
The president, African Development Bank, AFDB, Mr. Akinwunmi Adeshina, in his opening remarks at IITA’s golden jubilee celebration on Monday, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital rated the aesthetic environment of the institute as second to none globally. His words: “My wife and I, and the African Development Bank, congratulate IITA on its 50th anniversary. […]
The goal of the African Development Bank is to ensure that the continent is able to feed its populace in the next decade. Dr. Akinwunmi Adeshina, stated this while delivering his speech at the IITA’s 50th anniversary celebration at the institute’s headquarters in Ibadan, where he also pledged more financial support for agriculture in Africa. […]
“Agriculture funds” President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will sustain concrete measures to diversify the economy by devoting more resources to agriculture in the 2017 budget. Speaking to reporters in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend on the margins of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), President Buhari said African countries […]
While commissioning the new training facility for capacity development for youth agripreneurs on Monday, in Ibadan, the President of African Development Bank, (AFDB), Dr. Akin Adeshina, eulogized the contributions of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in advancing agriculture on the African continent in his address. The $700,000 youth training facility which was funded by the Federal Ministry […]
…AfDB president to commission $700,000 building for youth Agripreneurs Nigeria’s Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will on Monday speak on food security and Nigeria’s preparedness to diversify its economy using agriculture as a lever. Prof Osinbajo leads other dignitaries and leaders from scientific research, education, and corporate organizations from African countries and beyond, in celebrating […]
Dr. Rufus Ebegba, Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), has urged Nigerians to always research information from credible sources in order to be adequately informed and prevent misinformation. Dr. Ebegba said this while enlightening some staff and students of the Environmental Health Sciences department of Kwara State University, who paid an educational visit to […]
The federal government has declared its determination to provide all that it would require to ensure that the agricultural intervention project to be pioneered at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife and bankrolled by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the tune of N3bn, is tremendously successful. The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, […]
The Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has called on Nigerian farmers to trust that the Agency will ensure that genetically modified crops are safe before they are released into the market. The DG/CEO, who said this when he received members of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (Kaduna State Chapter) in […]
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has rated the performance of Niger State high in the on-going Anchor Borrower’s Scheme of the apex bank. Even as 30, 000 farmers has benefited in the scheme so far. The bank attributed the success story of the scheme in the state to the commitment and political will accorded it […]