THE Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, Saturday, disclosed Federal Government’s target of 1,250,000 million tonnes of wheat production for the 2023/2024 dry season farming.

AGRA and other stakeholders in the agricultural sector are developing a framework on how the government can institutionalise the private sector-led extension approach called the Community-Based Advisor (CBA) to increase the number of extension agents in the country.

A Cadre Harmonise report for October 2023, released in Abuja says about 26.5 million Nigerians in 26 states, including Abuja may face an acute food crisis.

The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Aliyu Abdullahi, said Nigeria’s food security is under siege by insecurity, flood, zoonotic diseases, drought, and other challenges.

African Development Bank (AfDB), Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development have voted $1billion to deliver special agro-industrial processing zones in 24 States of Nigeria.

AS Nigerians grapple with food challenges, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, Thursday, expressed deep worries over the threat posed by climate change impacts on food production and food security.

THE Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, yesterday, hailed the impact of Value Chain Development Programme, VCDP, on the livelihood of smallholder farmers and food security.

Global rice prices reached a 15-year high in August after top exporter India banned some overseas sales of the grain, the Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.

AS food prices continue to soar, the new Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, Monday, acknowledged that one of the biggest problems in the country is hunger and vowed to tackle it head-on.

The Ebonyi government on Thursday said that it would carefully consider increasing the budgetary allocation to Agriculture to five per cent in the 2024 budget.

AFTER 24 hours of President Bola Tinubu’s attaching portfolios to Ministers that would be inaugurated soon, farmers under the auspices of All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Thursday, expressed hope over the newly appointed Ministers for the sector and renaming of the Ministry from Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

The Federal Government says, it has commenced the distribution of subsidised farm inputs to small holder farmers across the North Western States of the country.

Benue state government has procured 100 trucks of fertilizers to be distributed to farmers in the year’s farming season.

AS food security takes center stage in economic growth and development, maize farmer under the auspices of Maize Association of Nigeria, MAAN, Monday, disclosed of creating 1 million jobs across the country with the Private Public Partnership, PPP, Model.

AS the blue economy now becomes a major focus globally, African countries under the auspices of the Ministerial Conference on Fisheries Cooperation among African States bordering the Atlantic Ocean, COMHAFAT/ATLAFCO, have lamented poor interest in fisheries governance as a major foreign exchange revenue earner.