Gov. Mohammed Badaru of Jigawa says Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI), will help to grow the Nigerian economy through the production of NPK 20-20 fertiliser, using locally sourced materials.

By Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja The Presidential Fertilizer Initiative, PFI, Friday, assured farmers of subsidized fertilizer rate for farmers’ affordability and accessibility in the 2020 wet season planting. This was disclosed by the Chairman, PFI, who also is the Governor of Jigawa State, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Agriculture and […]

The Edo State Government in collaboration with Thrive Agric and Market Development in the Niger-Delta (MADE) have trained over 1000 bee farmers across the state on techniques to increase productivity and profitability, with 40 of them getting N190,000 worth of start-up pack each.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it spent N146 billion to support 849,480 wet and dry seasons rice farmers across the country. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, gave the details at a meeting with some state Governors in Abuja on Thursday. Emefiele said that the bank was working with other stakeholders to wage […]

The Osun Government is to create 25,000 new direct and indirect jobs through the dairy project development activities of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Mudasiru Toogun, the former Osun Commissioner for Special Duties, has said. In a statement issued by Mrs Segilola Babalola, the Information Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Toogun was quoted […]

By Akpokona Omafuaire, Warri THE Delta State Commissioner for Agriculture, Hon. Julius Egbedi yesterday flagged off the Patani Local Government Council Agricultural Revolution 2019. PLOGCAR was flagged off with a call on other Council Chairmen to emulate same. The program, a brainchild of Barr Perez Omoun, Patani Council boss had 200 persons smiling home with […]

The Japanese government has donated 20 rice reapers and 20 rice threshers to small scale farmers in Awe, Obi and Keana Local Government Areas of  Nasarawa State. Speaking in Azara, Awe LGA, the Ambassador of Japan to Nigeria, Yutaka Kikuta, said that the donation was under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP), […]

Adedeji Egbebi Some farmers in Ekiti North Senatorial District on Wednesday appealed to the state Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, ‎to provide loans for them to enhance their agricultural production. The farmers, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ido-Osi, Oye, Ikole, and Moba local government areas, said that they needed tractors and […]

Professor Michael Ngadi, Director, Integrated Food and Bioprocess (IFB) programme, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.   Ngadi made the assertion on Tuesday at the 20th International Conference and 40th Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Institution of Agricultural Engineering (NIAE) hosted by Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara. Ngadi, a Professor of Food and Bioprocess Engineering, said Nigeria’s […]

Kogi State Government is set to inaugurate a newly constructed over N4 billion rice mill factory with the capacity to produce 50 tonnes of rice per day. The State Governor Alhaji Yayaha Bello, disclosed this during an inspection tour to the factory site, at Omi Dam in Ejiba, Yagba West LGA of Kogi. ”In 2016, […]

…calls for more Mik collation centres, off-takers By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Tuesday, boasted of having enough cows and pastoralists to meet milk demand in the country. This was stated by the National Secretary, MACBAN, Othman Ngelzarma, at a press briefing while reacting on how to […]

  The Edo State Government has said it has over 10,600ha of land under cultivation in different parts of the state under its agricultural programmes benefitting not less than 2000 farmers distributed in the different farms in the three senatorial districts of the state. The State Government embarked on a multi-faceted agricultural development scheme backed […]

  Hajiya Halima Njobadi, the Director-General, LUGAVO Cooperatives, a nonprofit organisation, on Tuesday appealed to the Federal Government not to pay lip service to agriculture in order to achieve sustainable food security. Njobadi, who made the appeal in Abuja, decried the attitude of civil servants in the Ministry of Agriculture to farmers that come to […]

  The Gombe State Government says aerial control of migratory pests in the state would resume on Wednesday. Mr. Umar Malala, Director of Produce and Pest Control Services in the state’s Ministry of Agriculture disclosed this in Gombe on Tuesday. Malala said the exercise was halted as a result of a technical problem adding that […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Sunday, said it had supported the cultivation of 2,000 hectares out-grower farms in Borno to produce improved variety seedlings and accelerate paddy rice production. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the seeds nurseries were established at Dusuman and Zabalmari villages in Konduga Local Government Area of […]