Nigeria loses $2bn yearly to cocoa value addition gap — FG
…production stuck at 300kg per hectare annually despite improved seedlings — CRINBy Cynthia Alo & Kafayat KokumoThe Federal Government has said that Nigeria loses about $2 billion annually in potential value from cocoa because the country’s processing capacity is largely underutilised.The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, stated this in Lagos on Wednesday […]
Kwara Gov launches 10-year agricultural transformation plan
The Kwara Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Friday, in Ilorin, launched a 10-year Agricultural Transformation Plan, designed to make Kwara food sufficient by 2030. “The essence of this document is to ensure food security, attract investments to the sector, create jobs, reduce poverty, and create inclusive growth by giving equal opportunities for women and girls […]
Attacks on farmers will continue to make food sufficiency mirage — NSITF
Food availability, sufficiency, and affordability will continue to be a mirage as long as banditry and attacks on farmers continue, the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology has declared. Its chairman, Mr Sunday Bamgbose, told Newsmen on Friday in Lagos that no nation could boast of sufficiency if it did not have the capacity […]
Ekweremadu pledges to assist Enugu farmers access CBN loan
Former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has pledged to assist farmers in Enugu State to access agricultural loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Why Lagos is hub for coconut processing in West Africa — Olakunlehin
Lagos State Coconut Development Authority, LASCODA, is the body charged with the development of the crop, in this interview with Jimoh Babatunde, the General Manager of the agency, Olakulehin Oladapo, talks on the economic and environmental importance of the crop as well as what they have done to increase production in the state
Dry Season Farming: Rice millers demand simplified conditions of CBN’s P-AADS
Express optimism over bumper rice harvest By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja As dry season farming commences, rice millers under the auspices of Rice Millers Association of Nigerian, RIMAN, Thursday, demanded simplified process of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s, Private Sector-led Accelerated Agriculture Development Scheme, P-AADS. In a chat with Vanguard, the National President, RIMAN, Peter […]
