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 […]

The African Development Bank, AfDB, has selected four local government areas in Taraba State as Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones, SAPZ.

…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 […]

“The reason for the increase in the dollar is that Nigeria spends more than it earns internationally. The only place that we get foreign exchange now is through crude oil and fossil fuels.”

“Food is now viewed as a trading commodity, not as a necessity for food security of the nation. And I think because of this situation and the challenge that we face, we have to come out I make absolute statement that no double taxation should be applied to food in transit.”