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 […]
Borno killings: Women farmers to stop supply of farm produce to markets
…calls for compensation of families of slain farmers By Gabriel Ewepu WOMEN farmers under the auspices of Smallholder Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria, SWFON, Monday, disclosed planned stoppage of supply of farm produce to markets across the country following Saturday massacre of 43 rice farmers in Borno State. This was made known in a telephone […]
Investors told to harness agricultural potentials of Urhobo land
By Festus Ahon – Abuja Prominent Urhobo leaders have called on investors to harness the huge agricultural potentials in Urhobo land to create employment and reduce the level of poverty among the people of the ethnic nationality. The leaders held that the age-long practice of subsistence farming was no longer fashionable, and could not create […]
Borno Farmers’ Killing: AFAN expresses sadness, says disaster looms in food system
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Monday, expressed sadness over the gruesome killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State on Saturday while on their farms by Boko Haram insurgents. This was contained in a statement made available to Vanguard, where the National President of AFAN, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, […]
Cassava Growers’ Association allay fears of cassava shortage in 2021
Some farmers under the aegis of the Cassava Growers Association of Nigeria (NCGA) have allayed fears of an impending shortage of cassava in 2021, due to inability to access government intervention funds. A member of the association, Yemi Williams said in an interview on Saturday in Lagos that farmers’ inability to access government’s N19.7 billion […]
NFGCS, others lament impact of #EndSARS protest on rice industry
Call for security beef up at land borders to curb smuggling of commodity By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Nigerians were baffled by the twist and turn of the #EndSARS protest across the country to fight against police brutality as it became violent affecting, the rice industry was attacked on all fronts, making operators count huge […]
