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The Ebonyi Government says it anticipates bumper harvest of 350 metric tons of rice in the 2016 farming season. Gov. David Umahi expressed the hope at the inaugural National Agricultural Summit organised by the Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo Local Government Area of the State on Thursday. The governor, represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture and […]
Tourists from different parts of the world who are partaking in the first cocoa festival in Africa have converged on the Eti-Oni, the ancient town in Osun State that pioneered the production of cocoa in Nigeria over 120 years ago. The maiden edition of the cocoa festival which began on Sunday November 27 would come […]
The Federal Government, yesterday, flagged off the distribution of agriculture app smartphones to rice farmers across the country. The RICEADVICE smartphones distribution, which was done through the National Cereals Research Institute, NCRI, commenced with the training of 50 rice farmers extension officers on how to use the smartphones to obtain relevant information to boost rice […]
The Federal government has been admonished to fulfill its pledge to compensate poultry farmers who lost their stock of birds during the avian influenza (bird flu) outbreaks of 2015-2016 in the country. Making the call yesterday President of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, Dr. Ayoola Oduntan, said as at November 2016, out of a […]
Benue State government will, this month, outlaw open grazing in any part of the state to stem unending herdsmen/farmers crisis. Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Terkimbi Ikyange, gave the indication yesterday when he hosted the leadership of the Movement Against Fulani Occupation, MAFO, in Makurdi. Ikyange, who said the House took into […]
What Leventis Foundation Nigeria Ltd spend on providing agricultural training for Nigerian youths yearly in their six agriculture schools across the country is within the region of N400 to N600 million, the Executive Director (ED), Hope Ovia Usieta, has revealed. Usieta, who disclosed this while speaking to LEADERSHIP at the foundation’s head office in Abuja […]
The chairman, Abuja chapter of the West Africa Aquaculture Productivity Initiative (WAAPI), a platform in the aquaculture industry which deals with the entire value chain, Albert Tever Best, has said that the major challenge in the fishery industry now is the price of fish feed. He said at a capacity building training for fish farmers […]
The decline in cotton production in Katsina State this year has resulted in high demand and price for the produce, Daily Trust can report. Over the years, farmers in the state have shifted to the cultivation of other crops like rice, soya bean, maize and sorghum for lack of improved cotton seed and low price […]
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Hussien Oloyede, of the newly licensed Summit University in Offa, Kwara State has declared that apart from imparting knowledge on their students, the institution will also engaged in mechanised farming to feed the people of the state. The VC disclosed this recently while speaking at a press conference to unfold the […]
An Egba High Chief and a popular businessman, Chief Salimon Ajayi, popularly known as Rantipe, was, yesterday, arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Isabo, Abeokuta, for allegedly fraudulently obtaining N105 million from a company, Alarab Properties, a subsidiary of Obasanjo Holdings Limited. Ajayi, who is also the Balogun of Ijemoland in Egbaland and […]
The families of five of the seven persons kidnapped by militants, Sunday, in Kodjo Farm, located at Igbodu, Epe area of Lagos State, said, yesterday, that the kidnappers had demanded N20 million ransom. According to one of the family members, who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity, the kidnappers had contacted them by phone, […]
The National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA, has reiterated its stand on Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs, stating that the efficacy and safety of the products were guaranteed under scientific proof. Director General of the agency, Prof. Lucy Ogbadu, gave the assurance during a sensitization seminar on Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs, and Agricultural Biotechnology organised by NABDA […]
Central Bank of Nigeria Tuesday in Yenagoa said that a 50 kg bag of Nigeria rice is selling in Ebonyi for N8,000. This was disclosed by the Acting Director, Corporate Communication, CBN, Mr Isaac Okoroafor, in Bayelsa State. Speaking at a sensitization workshop for the CBN Anchor programme for farmers, he said: “We should eat […]
Farmers in Ekpetiama Kingdom in Yenagoa Local Government Area (LGA) of Bayelsa have appealed to security agencies to prevail on herdsmen who lead cattle to graze in the area to desist from the act. Farmers, community leaders and inhabitants of the Kingdom decried the activities of some of the herdsmen who were unable to control […]
The Federal Government has selected the Ulasi River in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State for the establishment of a modern integrated fish farming project capable of producing forty five tons of fish annually. Apart from the fish farming project, the federal government in partnership with the Australian government will also establish an […]