Agriculturists have identified non availability of funds, low quantity of feed inputs and reduction of participants in the business as major challenges hindering the growth of agriculture.

THE Director General of National Biotechnology Development Agency, NABDA, Prof Alex Akpa, has assured that the release of Bt cotton will revamp the nation’s ailing 250 textile firms and also boost the economy in a short in time.

Anambra state is now counting the gains associated with the resuscitation and expansion of a moribund rice mill, under the Public Private Partnership, PPP venture.

James Elekwachi is Economic Development Programme Manager at the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND. He tells Vanguard’s Egufe Yafugborhi, in this interview, that the development agency’s sustained commitment to lifting many from poverty into livelihood engagements, through improved farming skills and information, would have passed by if the goodwill organisation had caved in to profound tendencies for violence and disruptions it met on ground six years ago.

Private sector investment in Nigeria’s agricultural sector  is looking up with  a member of Diageo Plc, Guinness Nigeria PLC, heeding the call for private sector stakeholders to grow Nigeria’s agriculture as the company recently  launched  its laudable agricultural initiative “Grow with Nigeria”.