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.

Orders zonal offices to take inventory By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono, Tuesday, lamented under-utilised and unaccounted agricultural assets across the country. Nanono made this known at a meeting on monitoring and evaluation of 2019 projects in the sector in Abuja, where he directed all state and […]