FG, BOA sign MoU to empower 3 million women farmers
The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development and the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) have signed an MoU to provide agricultural support and opportunities for three million women through the Women Agro-Value Expansion (WAVE) Programme.
CBN’s Anchor Borrowers Program: 225,000 farmers to benefit from NIRSAL’s New Field structure
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.
Cocoa farmers decry low productivity, urges more govt support, commitment in 2018
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.
Nigeria produces 30% of chicken consumed in the country – Gbolade
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.
Post-harvest losses claim 50% of food produced in Nigeria— CEFTER
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.
Do not to suck snakebite spots, Health official advises farmers
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.
‘Anyone or company that wants to import or release genetically modified seeds, grains should get permit’
The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) says it will not disrupt the legitimate activities of seeds and grains dealers across the country.
Nigeria lacks capital to actualize its potentials in agriculture – NIRSAL
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.
Agro-industrial Park: Delta state seeks new option for solving food deficits, youth’s unemployment
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.
Financing smallholder farmers through technology
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.
FG orders repatriation of imported genetically modified maize
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.
