Farmers in tale of woes over flooding
By Cynthia Alo There are indications that farmers may have suffered huge losses following recent heavy rains that created flooding of farmlands across the country. Vanguard AgroBiz findings reveal that many farmers across the country are now battling with the impact on survival of their farming businesses. The situation may worsen as the Nigeria Hydrological […]
Food Production: Importers beg FG to declare zero-duty on agro equipment
AS food prices remain high across the country, importers of agro equipment, weekend, begged the Federal Government to declare zero-duty on agro equipment to boost food production and reduce high food prices.
Nigeria needs 72,000 tractors for mechanised farming — Minister
“Today, I am not too sure if we have 5,000 tractors fully working in Nigeria. We need over 72,000 with what we have in terms of arable landscape.”
Agric Ministry boosts 250 smallholder farmers with inputs
By Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Tuesday, boosted 250 smallholder farmers in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja with agricultural inputs to upscale food production. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Temitope Fadeshemi, in an address of welcome during the opening ceremony of the training […]
AfDB marks four Taraba LGAs for special agro-industrial processing zones
The African Development Bank, AfDB, has selected four local government areas in Taraba State as Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones, SAPZ.
We’re not asking farmers to pay N2,000 to get farm inputs – AFAN
…disassociates self from fraudsters By Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja With dry season farming soon to commence, the apex body of farmers in the country, All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Saturday, alerted farmers that it is not demanding N2,000 payment for farm inputs as claimed by some fraudsters. This was made known in a statement signed […]
