FG targets $500m import savings with new palm oil estates
The Federal Government has unveiled a coordinated plan to revive Nigeria’s palm oil industry, aiming to cut import bills by up to $500 million annually through a public-private investment model built on large-scale estates and downstream processing.
We’re set to revolutionalise farming calendar ― Cross River Basin Devt Authority
The Cross River Basin Development Authority has said its dry season farming programme is an attempt to revolutionaries the farming calendar for an all-year-round engagement of farmers in the catchment. The Managing Director of the Authority ENGR. Bassey Nkposong made the disclosure recently in Ogoja, Cross River State while flagging off the 2021 dry season […]
FAO raises alarm over anticipated invasion of desert locusts in West Africa
As hunger continues to bite harder coupled with uncontrollable rise of high cost of food in Nigeria and rest of West Africa, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, Wednesday, raised the alarm over anticipated invasion of desert locusts in the West African Sub-region
Insufficient rain might cause food deficiency in 2021, farmers cry out
By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano As climate change continues to worsen in the northern parts of Nigeria, even as it is the rainy season, during which farmers look up to bumper harvests, lack of rainfall for weeks in Kano has led many farmers to lose their crops especially rice. Rice which requires a consistent water […]
Food Security: Lawmaker calls for prioritizing 2022 budgetary allocation on agric
Hon. Muntari Dandutse Mohammad has called for special attention on prioritizing 2022 budgetary allocation for the agricultural sector to boost food security and create employment for young people
FG assures farmers, investors on implementation of Fertilizer Quality Control Act
The Federal Government, weekend, assured farmers and investors on implementation of Fertilizer Quality Control Act 2019 to boost food production
Without CBN intervention, food crisis would have become worse – Agro-economists
Small-scale farmers and agricultural economists have harped on the importance of agricultural interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) valued at N798.09 billion to 3.9 million small-holder farmers.
Agric sector lifts 4.2m Nigerians out of poverty in 2 yrs —Minister
As Nigerians grapple with economic challenges, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar, Friday, disclosed that 2 million Nigerians have been lifted out of poverty through the agricultural sector in the last two years
2021 World Food Day: FG expresses worry over threat of food wastage to achieve food security
As Nigeria joins rest of the world to commemorate the 2021 World Food Day, Friday, the Federal Government has expressed worry over threat of food wastage to achieve food security
2021 World Food Day: FG woos entrepreneurs, investors into agriculture
As stakeholders in the agricultural sector continue day two activities of 2021 World Food Day, the Federal Government, Thursday, wooed entrepreneurs and investors to invest in livestock, horticulture, fisheries and others to take Nigeria into self-sufficiency, food security, rich nutrition, and wealth creation along various value chains
Ministry of Agric boosts IDP camps with food items, farm inputs
As part of activities to mark 2021 World Food Day, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Wednesday, boosted Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camps with food items and farm inputs in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT
