Nigeria loses $2bn yearly to cocoa value addition gap — FG
…production stuck at 300kg per hectare annually despite improved seedlings — CRINBy Cynthia Alo & Kafayat KokumoThe Federal Government has said that Nigeria loses about $2 billion annually in potential value from cocoa because the country’s processing capacity is largely underutilised.The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, stated this in Lagos on Wednesday […]
‘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.
