To expand production belts to North-Central, South-West The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has intervened to bail farmers out of the challenge of inadequate seeds, adjudged as the most critical input retarding wheat production in the country. Farmers, researchers and industrialists have constantly faced production impediments, including poor quality of inputs and inadequate infrastructure. The […]

Ebonyi State Government, yesterday stressed that the State remains the highest producer of rice in the country with 4 million metric tonnes to showcase every year

Rural women constitute one-fourth of the world’s population and they play a critical role in the rural and national economies of most of the African countries

A N300m investment to set up community seed enterprises to increase wheat production in Nigeria was yesterday, announced by Olam, and its subsidiary Crown Flour Mill Limited (CFM).

The Federal Government says it will soon scale up the contributions of the livestock sub-sector to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, made the disclosure in Benin on Tuesday, at the 57th Annual Congress of the Nigeria Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA). Abubakar, represented by Dr […]

As farmers continue to face challenges in food production, the Institute for Agricultural Research, IAR, Samaru, Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Monday, assured that the newly approved TELA Maize will save farmers N268 billion annually spent on insecticide

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 […]

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

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 […]

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