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Landmark university, Africa's first agrarian private university has stated her desire to expand investment Portfolio in agriculture by increasing its production of rice, investment in Hydroponics(soilless agriculture )etc. The university recently constructed inert atmospheric silos as the need arises to [...]
The Maize Farmers Association of Nigeria says production of the commodity increased from eight million tonnes to 20 million tonnes in Nigeria between 2015 and 2018. The president of the association, Bello Abubakar, said this at the Nigeria Maize Conference [...]
The director general of Africa Rice Centre, Harold Roy-Macauley, on Monday, February 4, said that Nigeria has overtaken Egypt as largest producer of rice in Africa. The Nation reports that Roy-Macauley said Nigeria has become the largest rice producer at [...]
A group, Youth Farm Project (Yfarm) has disclosed plans to establish 10, 000 climate-smart agribusiness farms across the country by 2020. The Programme Manager, YFarm Project, Nkiruka Nnaemego, disclosed this at the end of a 4-day boot camp capacity building. [...]
The Federal Government has pledged to complete all abandoned federal government funded projects in Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State.President Muhammadu Buhari made this known when he commissioned some ecological projects initiated and completed in the university. Represented by [...]
The Federal Government has said that Kaduna, Kogi, Benue, Anambra, Bayelsa and five other states will get 10 large integrated rice milling machines at the cost of N10.7 billion by December 2019. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, [...]
The Federal Government has begun clampdown on all fake and adulterated seeds markets throughout the country. The step was aimed at protecting farmers whose produce had been negatively impacted by fake and adulterated seeds. Director General of National Agricultural Seeds [...]
Dangote Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc and other key stakeholders in the flour milling industry have donated 50 units AMAR multi-crop threshers to wheat farmers in the country, as part of their commitment to aid self sufficiency in wheat production. [...]
Kogi donates 15,000 hectares of land for cattle colony: Kogi state Governor Yahaya Bello, yesterday, disclosed that the state government has donated 15,000 hectares of land to support the Federal Government’s proposed cattle colony policy. Bello, who was at the [...]
Benue leaders led by Governor Samuel Ortom yesterday declared that their state had no empty land to be designated as a cattle colony as being proposed by the Federal Government. They made the declaration at a meeting with President Muhammadu [...]
Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN), has accused the Federal Ministry of Agriculture of procuring substandard agricultural inputs for the farmers, thereby causing great havoc for the agric produce. In a statement jointly signed by its National President, National Secretary, [...]
Justice Yemi Ajayi of Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, has ruled that a former executive director of the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan, Professor Benjamin Ogunbodede, be remanded in prison custody, following his alleged involvement in a [...]
Ugu (Fluted Pumpkin) farmers under the auspices of Pumpkins Growers, Processors and Marketing Association of Nigeria (PUGMAN) North-east zone have stated that the commodity (Ugu) if properly harnessed is capable of contributing to the country’s foreign exchange earnings, reduce the [...]
Stakeholders in the fertiliser industry have pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the current Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI) is sustained to ensure food sufficiency in the country. The stakeholders made the call in separate interviews with the News [...]
Governor Kashim Shettima, has assured that his administration will boost Borno’s economic potentials through agriculture. He said this is part of the government’s response to destructions of livelihoods by Boko Haram insurgents across the state. He spoke at the weekend [...]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will visit Port Harcourt today to inaugurate the world’s biggest fertilizer plant built by Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemicals Limited. Mr Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, made [...]
Nigeria To Start Exporting Rice: Chief Audu Ogbeh who is the minister of agriculture has declared that Nigeria will soon start exporting high-quality rice to the rest of the world. The Punch reports that the minister said this on Friday, [...]
Nigeria invites Russian farmers to invest to take advantage of the country’s arable land to produce and export agricultural products. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo gave the invitation when a Russian delegation led by the Russian Minister of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, [...]
Olusegun Mimiko, the governor of Ondo State, will on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 perform the flag-off ceremony of the distribution of multi-million naira worth of farm inputs to farmers across the 18 local government areas of the state. Kayode Akinmade, [...]
Locusts From Niger – The federal government has alerted farmers of locusts and quelea birds coming into the country from Niger Republic.. Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture and rural development, gave the warning in Abuja during an [...]
The Federal Government is making a security arrangement whereby farmers in the country will pay fees for protection from kidnappers while in their farms – Ogbeh. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, dropped the hint [...]
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Monday called on the management of the Nigeria Customs Service to consider the possibility of lifting the ban on the importation of rice through the nation’s land borders. Speaking when [...]
Governor Nasiru Ahmed El-Rufai of Kaduna State, Monday, declared a state of emergency on tomatoes farming in the state, saying that 80 per cent of tomatoes farms have been ravaged by an exotic pest, called tomato blight (Tuta Absoluta). [...]
Buhari – IRONY: “16 years of rot” provides the means by which this president ‘releases grains to alleviate poverty’ from strategic grain reserves that were immeasurably enhanced by his immediate predecessor after DECADES of abject neglect. [...]
“I have completed 20 new Silo Complexes spread across the country to store Millions of Metric tonnes of Rice, Millet, Bean, Maize, Cassava, Sorghum. These Strategic Reserve have a total storage capacity of 1.336 million metric tons (MT) [...]
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has called for the reduction of the huge trade imbalance between Nigeria and China, which is currently heavily in favour of the Asian country. This was as President Xi Jinping of China offered $15 million agricultural assistance [...]
Immediate past Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has slammed Edo State Governor, Adams Oshimhole, for describing the Agricultural Programme of former president Goodluck Jonathan as a scam. Adesina, who is warming up to assume office [...]
Agriculture not oil – My government will focus on Agriculture not oil, says Buhari – In an effort to diversify the economy, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday reported the Federal Government wouldn't address agriculture as a development programme but instead as [...]
In terms of employment, agriculture is by far the most important sector of Nigeria's economy, engaging about 70% of the labor force. Agricultural holdings are generally small and scattered; farming is often of the subsistence variety, characterized by simple tools [...]
Only 25 per cent of Nigeria’s 8,000 medicinal plants are being utilised, says Mrs Zainab Shariff, the Managing Director, Nigeria Medicinal Plants Development Company (NMPDC). Shariff made this known in an interview Abuja on Sunday. She said that the company [...]
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