Anambra state is now counting the gains associated with the resuscitation and expansion of a moribund rice mill, under the Public Private Partnership, PPP venture.

James Elekwachi is Economic Development Programme Manager at the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND. He tells Vanguard’s Egufe Yafugborhi, in this interview, that the development agency’s sustained commitment to lifting many from poverty into livelihood engagements, through improved farming skills and information, would have passed by if the goodwill organisation had caved in to profound tendencies for violence and disruptions it met on ground six years ago.

Private sector investment in Nigeria’s agricultural sector  is looking up with  a member of Diageo Plc, Guinness Nigeria PLC, heeding the call for private sector stakeholders to grow Nigeria’s agriculture as the company recently  launched  its laudable agricultural initiative “Grow with Nigeria”.

Katsina State chapter of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, RIFAN, has commenced disbursement of agricultural inputs to 15,811 rice farmers under the first batch of the Federal Government Anchor Borrowers Scheme for dry season period.

Kogi State Government yesterday said the state lost about N50 billion from the sale of cashew nuts in 2018 due to adulteration of the nuts by cashew dealers and lack of quality control.

The National Task Force on Falls Army Worms (FAW) has called on Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on army worms in Nigeria.

FOLLOWING the diversification move by the Federal Government through the agricultural sector, an agribusiness firm, Agrecourse Integrated Services Limited, has disclosed boosting the sector with investment worth over N7.1bn in three years.

A Kaduna-based housewife, Hajiya Hassana Idris, said on Thursday that she smiled to the bank with N450,000 monthly from poultry farming business.

FARMERS under the auspices of Association of Small-Scale Agro Producers in Nigeria, ASSAPIN, All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, and other stakeholders have demanded for passage of fertilizer control, seed council and warehouse receipt system bills by the 8th National Assembly ahead of the 2019 general elections.

THE National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA has disclosed that Nigeria’s first BT Cowpea is set to be released in 2019 to farmers and will close gap of over 500, 000 metric tonnes of beans production deficit.

Some farmers in Lagos State on Monday urged the Federal Government to subsidise fish feed to encourage local fish production.

THE Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine Service, NAQS, yesterday, issued a red alert over outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease, FMD, in Vhembe and Capricorn Districts in Limpopo of South Africa.

We have also looked at coconut from the angle of being a miracle crop that you can produce 150 derivatives from such as bread, oil, artwork, milk, and others

OCP Africa Fertilisers Nigeria Ltd., says it will establish two industrial fertiliser plants worth $1 billion (N305 billion) in 2019 to support the Federal Government in boosting local production of the commodity.

The Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (ALFAN) in Rivers, Mr Roland Brown, has advised farmers in the state not to abandon cultivation of cassava due to the current low price.