Mr. Sola Adeniyi, Executive Director of  `GoGreen Africa Initiative’, a non-governmental organization (NGO), has promised to empower farmers in apiculture with the right training and provide technical know-how to willing farmers to improve on bee farming.   Adeniyi made the promise on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in […]

AFEX commodities exchange moves to bridge financing gaps among smallholder farmers AFEX Commodities Exchange Ltd, an organisation in the commodity exchange market, says it is working assiduously to bridge financing gaps being experienced by smallholder farmers to break the circle of poverty among them. The Business and Development Manager of the organisation, Mr. Akinyinka Akintunde […]

  Prof. Wasiu Afolabi of the Community Nutrition, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta has called for speedy implementation of the National Policy on Food and Nutrition by the federal, state and local governments. Afolabi said that its implementation, which required adequate funding by all tiers of government, would ensure food security and reduce the scourge […]

Flood: Govt. urges farmers to insure farms Mr Adegboyega Adefarati, the Ondo State Commissioner for Agriculture, on Wednesday urged farmers in the state to register their farms with the agricultural insurance scheme to avoid total loss after natural disasters. Adefarati gave this advice after the tour of rice and vegetable farms destroyed by flood at […]

Sen. Shehu Sani has advised the Federal Government to explore ways of leveraging on the country’s huge agriculture potentials to ensure mutually beneficial relations with China.