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[ad_1] The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, weekend, alerted farmers over alleged fraudulent activities by a group called AFAN Caretaker Committee to extort them. The alarm was raised in a statement signed by the National President, AFAN, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, saying that the group in question is illegal and allegedly led by one Faruk […]

[ad_1] GOVERNOR Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has called on the Federal Government to enact a law banning movement of cattle from the north to other parts of the country in order to resolve the incessant incidences of clashes between farmers and herders. The governor made the call in an interview with journalists after a […]

[ad_1] Mr Ekwelem said that if the government did not take decisive action on smuggled rice, all the mills in the country would collapse. The Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RPAN) has appealed to the federal government to criminalise the sale of foreign rice in the country. The Director General of the association, Andy Ekwelem, […]

[ad_1] The Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RPAN) has appealed to the Federal Government to criminalize the sales of foreign rice in the country. The Director General of the association, Mr Andy Ekwelem stated this while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Saturday over the influx of smuggled rice into the country. Ekwelem cautioned if the government […]

[ad_1] Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina (third right); Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Agriculture, Dr. Angel Adelaja-Kuye (third left); Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr. Dotun Sorunke (left); Instructor, National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation, Adeyinka Ademuluyi (second right), during the commencement of SAWAH Eco-Technology rice harvest at Sawonjo, Yewa North […]

[ad_1] Agriculture The Federal Government has engaged over 30,000 youths across the country in agricultural extension services, soil mapping and soil testing, as part of efforts aimed at realising food security and job creation. The Executive Director, National Agricultural Development Agency (NALDA), Paul Ikonne, disclosed this while unveiling plans of the Federal Government during a monthly […]

[ad_1] Photo: EPA/STR Prospective beneficiaries of the Ogun State Cotton Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) are gradually running out of patience, due to the inactivity of the handlers in the state. For 11 months now, the registered farmers, especially youths under the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), who have been shortlisted and enlisted for the […]

[ad_1] Still basking in the euphoria of the success recorded in 2020, the Lagos State Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project has promised to establish 1,465 businesses for Women and Youth Empowerment Programme (WYEP) and the People with Disabilities and Special Needs (PWDSN) across the state this year. The State Project Coordinator […]

[ad_1] Asma Mirza processes ginger, honey, okro and more. Like many farmers in Kaduna State, Asma Mirza, has been away from the farm because of the insecurity in the state. Ms Mirza had been cultivating rice for a while but stopped after the rainy season in 2018 when insecurity in the state made it difficult […]

[ad_1] Farmers in Kano have unanimously called for banning of Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs because of the side effect they have on their farming system, health and on the environment. The farmers made the call during a farmers’ dialogue meeting organized by Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF on food and farming system, in Kwankwaso […]

[ad_1] Activist and former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, Comrade Shehu Sani has called on governors of northern states to take urgent steps to resolve the Fulani-Herders crisis. He said while the recent meeting between Southwest governors and the cattle dealer’s group, Miyetti Allah was a good step aimed at […]

[ad_1] Farmers in Ilorin have called on the Kwara Government for urgent intervention over what he described as indiscriminate bush burning in parts of the state. The farmers who expressed worry amidst consistent bush burning in the state spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday, in separate interviews. Mr Babatunde […]

[ad_1] Man as a work in progress is both a subject and object of cultivation. There is no culture without cultivation both in its figurative and literal senses. As habitual beings, our repeated actions create a pattern that influences and informs our default perspective to reality. This disposition comes by the cultivation of one’s life […]

[ad_1] The suspension was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic disruption of 2020. Nigeria suspended its plan to begin exporting sorghum to the United Kingdom in 2020, as a result of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the country representative of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hakeem Ajeigbe, has said. […]

[ad_1] The suspension was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic disruption of 2020. Nigeria suspended its plan to begin exporting sorghum to the United Kingdom in 2020, as a result of the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the country representative of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hakeem Ajeigbe, has said. […]