The Nigeria Certification Company (NICERT Ltd.), says it is ready to collaborate with the Federal Government to develop best agricultural practices and standards for local farmers to curb food rejections.

A professor of Food Microbiology, Prof. Ezekiel Otunola,  has called for urgent global collaboration against food insecurity.

The Fahimta Women and Youth Development Initiative, FAWOYDI , have called on smallholder women farmers to participate in the budget process in order to push for increase in allocation to agricultural sector of the state.

Fresh indications have emerged that Pork accounts for about $3 billion of consumption value in Nigeria and Ghana alone.

The Tilapia and Aquaculture Developers Association of Nigeria (TADAN) on Tuesday decried the exemption of Tilapia, a farmed fish species, from the Federal Government’s import prohibition list.

In a bid to enhance Nigeria’s race towards self-sufficiency in agricultural production, critical players in the agricultural space converged between July 30th and 31st at the Sheraton Hotels and Towers, Abuja to deliberate on mechanisms for improved productivity in the sector, particularly in light of Nigeria’s frontline role in the African food security equation.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted N14.9 billion loan to the North East Commodity Association (NECAS), on the platform of its Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP).

NIGERIAN Farmers Group and Cooporative Society, NFGCS, has come up with an innovative agrobusiness startup with an inclusive and trendy model that woos Nigerian youths to invest in agriculture without necessarily being on the farm.

An Agriculture Extension Officer, Mr Joseph Aboyeji, has advised farmers in the country to embrace dry season farming as a way of improving production and increase their income.

As it may be difficult getting lots of enterprising corporate youths involved in agriculture going by the tedious nature of farming with old techniques still in place, an innovative agribusiness startup has allayed the fears with an inclusive and trendy model that now woos many Nigerians across the world to invest in agriculture without necessarily being on the farm or raise an implement.

Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Muhammad Badaru has said that the state will soon start the exportation of goats to Kuwaiti and other Arab countries as its goats multiplication farming programme begins to yields results.

Mr Richard-Mark Mbaram, the Chief Executive Officer, AgroNigeria, says the Nollywood industry has a major role in projecting Nigeria’s agriculture digitally to the world.

Jakande Fruit Market Maize Sellers Association, Ketu, Lagos, says it has made the disposal of maize husks and other vegetable wastes from the market easy with immediate evacuation.

No fewer than nine million yam seedlings are to be distributed to yam farmers across the country under the CBN’s Anchor Borrowers Programme, (ABP) the Technical Committee on Nigeria Yam Export says.

THE Federal Government, Thursday, lamented the country’s poor participation in the international bee industry despite its potential to generate huge foreign exchange.