By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, weekend, alerted farmers over alleged fraudulent activities by a group called AFAN Caretaker Committee to extort them. The alarm was raised in a statement signed by the National President, AFAN, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, saying that the group in question is illegal and allegedly […]

Farmers in Kano have unanimously called for banning of Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs because of the side effect they have on their farming system, health and on the environment.

By Dennis Agbo The World Bank assisted Agro-Processing, Productivity, Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support, APPEALS, Project has disclosed that 30 percent of its attention is being paid to Women and youths, whom it said were major practitioners of agriculture. The APPEALS National Coordinator, Mr. Mohammedi Sani Jobdi made the disclosure during the Pre-sixth implementation support […]

Farmers in Ilorin have called on the Kwara Government for urgent intervention over what he described as indiscriminate bush burning in parts of the state. The farmers who expressed worry amidst consistent bush burning in the state spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Friday, in separate interviews. Mr Babatunde Audu, […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, Thursday, disclosed the provision of $900, 000 grant to support small-scale farmers in seven northern States as a measure to cushion the impact of the novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic. The grant is the first through IFAD’s Rural Poor Stimulus Facility, RPSF, as contained […]