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Experts have said that global efforts on food production must double by 2050 to feed the world’s growing population. This truism has been repeated so often in recent years that it has become widely accepted among academics, policymakers and farmers, but now researchers are challenging this assertion and suggesting a new vision for the future […]
The minister of state for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has assured that Nigeria will regain her lost glory through Agriculture. Lokpobiri made this assertion when he visited the Atlantic Shrimps Farm in Badagry, Lagos during his facility tour of the farm. Senator Lokpobiri said what he saw was very encouraging and assured […]
Mrs Besty Obaseki, wife of Edo Governor, on Tuesday organised one day training on poultry production for 500 widows in the state. Addressing the trainees in Benin, the governor’s wife said the training was part of the state government’s efforts to create employment through agriculture. She said that the training was organised to empower the […]
The traditional ruler of Awo community in Ankpa Local government area of Kogi State, Chief Thomas Amedu has advised government at all levels to intensify efforts to support agriculture so as to reduce crime level in the country and create job opportunity. According to the Monarch, the only way for the country to get out […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved about N1.5 billion for disbursement to farmers in Katsina State to boost food production and security in the country under Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP). Leadership checks indicates that about 8000 rice farmers have been cleared by the apex bank and the state government to receive the funds […]
President of the National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NACOTAN), Mr. Anibe Achimogu, spoke on the dwindling fortune of cotton, poor mobilisation of farmers and lack of commitment by stakeholders, which has allowed neighbouring countries to dominate the market to the detriment of Nigeria. Nigeria was one of the top cotton producing countries, but it has […]
The government of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello in Niger state has been emphatic in its strategic plan to boost Agricultural activities, invariably enhanced productivity in the state thus using the sector to empower youths and women. The governor recently stated that the government has a comparative advantage in the sector considering the fact that the […]
With the current exchange rate policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria among others, a Professor of Resource Economics, Quantitative Techniques and Economic Planning in the Benson Idahosa University, Prof. Rex Oforitse Aruofor, has predicted that the economy may soon recover from recession. Speaking at the 6th Inaugural Lecture Series of BIU with the theme, […]
The Yoruba Initiative (TYI), a socio-cultural and non-political group in the South-West, has decried the encroachment into farm land by suspected herdsmen in the region. Mr Folu Olamiti, the spokesman of TYI in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the increasing encroachment into farm land was already posing threat to the economy of the […]
Cocoa farmers in Osun are to get 150,000 cocoa seedlings at affordable and subsidised rates this season from the local cocoa farmers association. Mr Moses Oladipupo, the state Chairman of Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN), disclosed this on Tuesday in Osogbo, said that the seedlings would be provided by CFAN. Oladipupo said that farmers […]
HarvestPlus-Nigeria has trained 28 processors in the production of high-quality “garri’’, “fufu’’ and custard from Vitamin A-fortified cassava. The Information Officer of HarvestPlus, Ikechukwu Onyewuchi, said via a statement that the two-day “Train the Trainers’’ session was organised, in partnership with IFAD-Value Chain Development Programme (IFAD-VCDP) of Niger. The statement said that the training, which […]
The Niger Commissioner for Commerce, Trade and Investment, Mrs Ramatu Yar’ adua, says the state is exporting 57 per cent of the Shea Butter produced world-wide. Yar’adua announced this on Tuesday at news conference at the defence of her ministry’s 2017 budget proposal at the state House of Assembly in Minna. According to her, the […]
The Kano State Government on Tuesday said it would construct eight earth dams in order to boost irrigation activities across the 44 local government areas of the state. Alhaji Sulaiman Ririwai, Commissioner for Water Resources and Rural Development, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that the project had commenced in Doguwa Local […]
Mrs Augusta Osuya, Development Finance Officer (DFD), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has warned that commercial banks that diverted Federal Government’s Agriculture loans, meant for farmers would be sanctioned. She gave the warning in Port Harcourt on Monday during the sensitisation workshop on the need to diversify from oil economy to agriculture. The workshop was […]
The Federal Government has commenced the process of enacting a `Meat Hygienic Act’ to regulate the operations of abattoirs and slaughter slabs in the country. Dr Shehu Ahmed, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, disclosed this at the official handover of the rehabilitated Lafia modern abattoir to the Nasarawa State Government. […]