THE Chief Executive Officer, Dizengoff Nigeria, Mr Antti Ritvonen has assured that the introduction of Greenhouse technology will assist in expanding the country’s agricultural production. Ritvonen, who said this during a media parley on agricultural investment in the country, said the technology would deliver a technique for achieving high quality increased agricultural produce, thereby helping to expand production. He said: “Greenhouse technology […]

THE Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has maintained that the Federal Government will not forcefully take land from states to kick off cattle colony programme.

The  apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has rejected the proposal by the Federal Government to establish grazing colonies for Fulani herdsmen across the country, saying the recent killings of people by the herdsmen in Benue and Taraba states have  exposed the dangerous path, which Nigeria would be walking through such a gamble.

For the first time since the onset of the Boko Haram crisis, hunger has considerably declined in northeastern Nigeria. In the three states ravaged by the violence, the number of people facing acute hunger has halved since June-August – from 5.2 million to 2.6 million people – according to the latest Cadre Harmonisé food security analysis.

Nigeria was once bedevilled by the unpleasant rejection of her agricultural produce exports due largely to lack of evidence of certification by internationally accredited laboratories.

As part of its focus on taking business-driven agriculture to the grassroots, the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agriculture (NIRSAL) is deploying an innovative nation-wide field structure to support 225,000 farmers under the CBN Anchor Borrowers Scheme.

Mr Moses Oladipupo, Chairman of Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN), Osun chapter has decried the poor production of cocoa in the state, attributing it to bad weather.

The Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) has re-iterated that lack of finance, inadequate infrastructure, lack of supply securities, inconsistencies of government policies, regulations, among others are top constraints facing agribusiness investments in Nigeria.

Leader of the Centre for Food Technology and Research, CEFTER, Benue State University, Makurdi, Professor Daniel Adezwa, has revealed that over 50 percent of the food crop produced in the country was lost due to poor handling.

A U.S.-based Nurse, Alloysius Nlekwa, has advised farmers not to suck the spots where they were bitten by snakes while on their farms.

The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) says it will not disrupt the legitimate activities of seeds and grains dealers across the country.

Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing system for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Mr Aliyu Abdulhameed has lamented that Nigeria lacks the full capital to actualize its potentials in agriculture.

Delta State government has stated that lack luster approach to national agricultural management remains the bane of our lack of industrial development, adding that the nation’s blessed arable land from the North to South and East to West is grossly underutilized.

With  focus on agriculture as the next oil of the country’s economy, many Nigerians with money to invest in the sector have developed interest in the sector but being held back by a lack of  technical know-how , while the smallholder farmers in the rural area  with the knowledge are looking for finance to expand their farms.

Abuja – The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) says it has, in conjunction with the Nigerian Customs Service, ordered that the genetically modified (GM) maize consignment illegally imported into Nigeria be sent back.