Leventis Foundation Nigeria has proposed a N2million seed money for young Agribusiness entrepreneurs to pursue their agriculture businesses in the country.

The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) says its members now have the capacity to produce 24 million metric tonnes of rice annually.

Alhaji Faruk Rabi’u, the Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Kano state, has expressed optimism that the state would witness a bumper harvest this year.

Prices of smocked fish on Monday dropped by at least 20 per cent at the Hadejia Fish Market in Jigawa State.

The Albanian Government would decrease the Agriculture budget in the coming years in a bid to reduce the public debt, according to local media.

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.