Agro exports fall 36% to N803bn in Q2
By Cynthia AloNigeria’s agricultural export earnings fell by 36.09 per cent year-on-year to N802.99 billion in the second quarter of 2026 (Q2’26) from N1.26 trillion in the corresponding period of 2025 (Q2 ’25), latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has shown.The figure also represents a 31.51 per cent decline from the N1.17 […]
Kogi ADP launches ICT and Agric Training Centre
Kogi Agricultural Development Project (ADP) has launched its Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Agriculture Training Centre.
3,000 farmers embrace sorghum production in Daura LG
No fewer than 3,000 farmers have joined the ongoing massive sorghum production programme in Daura Local Government Area of Katsina State.
AGRA asks FG to consider World Bank report
The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa, AGRA, has urged the Federal Government to consider a recent World Bank report and create an enabling environment for business to thrive in Nigeria.
Nigeria earns $402m from Cashew in 2017- Faseru
The National President, National Cashew Association of Nigeria, NCAN, Tola Faseru, has disclosed that the production of the commodity has increased from about 90,000 metric tonnes in 2011 to 220,000 metric tonnes at the end of 2017 translating to about $402million.
Commercialize research products to increase IGR-Lokpobiri
THE Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development , Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has charged research institutes in the agricultural sector to commercialise their research products to increase Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, in order to sustain their institutes.
