Ecobank says Nigeria has the capacity to feed Africa’s estimated 1.2 billion people if it harnesses the gains of the agricultural value chain. According to the bank success in Nigeria’s agricultural sector means the reduction in the demand for foreign exchange to import food items into the country and the development of the agribusiness value-chain with a resultant effect in the creation of a new breed of entrepreneurs as well as jobs for the teeming population.

A Poultry expert, Mr Joel Oduware, has called for precautionary approach against the trigger and spread of Bird Flu disease closely linked to the harmattan season. Oduware, an expert in poultry farming made this call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. The experts said the disease was seasonal […]

As armed conflict in Africa increases by 36% Poverty, hunger on decline in Rwanda after 94 genocide — AGRA By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Following rising conflicts, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, Wednesday, called for increased investments in rural development. The call was made by the President, IFAD, Gilbert Houngbo, at the final […]

Muyiwa Folorunso is the CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Divergent Enterprise Group, a group of companies that are into e-commerce, transportation, real estate, travel, and agribusiness. In 2018, he co-founded Porkmoney, an initiative meant to revive pig farming and its contribution to economic growth. In this interview, he bares his mind on pig farming, […]

The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) has affirmed the export of local rice in the near future as predicted by the Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Sabo Nanono some weeks back. The Deputy National President of RIFAN, Mr Segun Atho, drummed support for the minister’s prediction in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria […]

As 632 LGAs set for full mechanized farming By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Federal Government and Benue State Government move to collaborate on massive food production and job creation in order to tackle security challenges and poverty. This was made known by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono, during a courtesy […]

Mr Alessandro Gerbino, Trade Commissioner,  Italian Trade Agency (ITA), on Saturday said the Italian government was ready to invest in Nigeria’s agricultural sector. Gerbino said this at an investment dinner in Abuja. According to him, investing in the agricultural sector will be part of Italy’s effort to strengthen trade relations with Nigeria. He said that as […]

The Kogi State Government has described the Alape Staple Food Processing Zone Project as the “electrons to charge the economic batteries of the entire North Central and a part of South West”. This was made known by the Kogi State Commissioner Of Information and Communication, Mr Kingsley Fanwo in Abuja, Friday while fielding questions from […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono, on Friday, said without youth’s engagement in agriculture Federal Government’s effort is totally in vain. Nanono made the statement during a courtesy visit by a delegation of The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Youth […]

Seek inclusion in CBN’s Anchor Borrowers scheme By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Cashew farmers under the auspices of the Association of Cashew Farmers, Aggregators and Processors of Nigeria, ACFAP, Thursday, raised alarm over an illegal shipment of cashew from Nigeria to other neighbouring countries. This was contained in a report titled, ‘Executive Report of Cashew […]

France’s agriculture ministry said Thursday that it was increasing surveillance of fields to stave off a ruinous virus affecting tomatoes that has already been found in neighbouring countries. No French cases have yet been reported of the “tomato brown rugose fruit virus,” known as ToBRFV, which causes the fruit to develop rough discoloured patches on […]

Mr Gbolahan Lawal, the Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, has urged farmers particularly the youth farmers to embrace agriculture as a business to transform it from subsistence to commercial for profitability. Lawal made the call at the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund Summit 2020 in Lagos. He said that several opportunities abound in agriculture because […]

James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta In its determination to end the menace of illegal farming in the State forest reserves, the Ogun State government has destroyed several acres of cocoa, cassava and plantain farms in Erinla and Bayesan villages in Area J4, as two illegal farmers were also arrested. The Ogun State Commissioner for Forestry, Eng. […]

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, says following Federal Government’s effort to encourage local production, Nigeria may stop fish importation in 2020. The minister made this known while receiving a delegation from the National Fish Association of Nigeria (NFAN) led by its National President, Dr Gabriel Ogunsanya in Abuja on Tuesday. Nanono […]

The Nigeria Farmers Group and Cooperative Society (NFGCS), on Tuesday, said that one major way to boost local rice consumption among Nigerians is to invest in the local fabrication of de-stoning machines.