Agro exports fall 36% to N803bn in Q2
By Cynthia AloNigeria’s agricultural export earnings fell by 36.09 per cent year-on-year to N802.99 billion in the second quarter of 2026 (Q2’26) from N1.26 trillion in the corresponding period of 2025 (Q2 ’25), latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has shown.The figure also represents a 31.51 per cent decline from the N1.17 […]
Floods and 2020 Farming Season: Risk factor to Nigeria’s quest for food security
By Arc Kabir Ibrahim The 2020 Farming season appears to engender a bountiful harvest but the flash floods all over the nation portend a serious impediment to the realization of a bumper harvest. The several windows of support to the farming communities from the CBN and a host of other sources are germane and evidently […]
Maize scarcity threatens animal feed industry
Feed Industry Practitioners Association of Nigeria, FIPAN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to save the poultry and animal feed industry from imminent collapse due to the maize supply crisis currently rocking the sector.
HOMEF, AFJN, others fault AGRA, seek alternative for agric in Africa
Rising from a webinar on AGRA’s Failed Promises: Liberating our Agriculture, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF; African Faith and Justice Network, AFJN; Navdanya International, and the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternative Development, IRPAD, have declared that the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, AGRA, programme failed.
Food sufficiency: Sanwo-Olu moves to revive Badagry production centre
By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has expressed commitment to revive the 279-hectare, erstwhile Songhai Food Production Center now the Lagos Food Production Centre, Avia, Badagry, Lagos. Sanwo-Olu who stated this while on a site inspection tour of the Centre explained that it was necessary for preparation for the take-off of the […]
Buhari’s Agric Policy saved us from food scarcity ― Nanono
Rolls out Agric inputs to support farmers Nationwide By Ike Uchechukwu – Calabar The Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, has asserted that the Aright Agricultural Policies of the Buhari-led administration saved Nigeria from food scarcity in the heat of COVID-19 pandemic. Alhaji Nanono made the assertion on Thursday in during the Flag off/Roll […]
