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 […]
How biotechnology can optimize agriculture in Nigeria
“With the down turn in the global prices of oil, we now have to prospect our solid minerals. We have to return to agriculture,” President Buhari to members of the Council of Saudi Arabian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Mohaz group builds biggest poultry farm in South-east
Power supply is our greatest challenge, stable power supply. We don’t want to mention payment of duties because it has been very challenging with the Nigeria Customs
Cross River to complete Ogoja rice mill before December — Commissioner
THE Cross River Government says the rice mill project in Ogoja, Ogoja Local Government Area, will be completed before the end of the year. Prof. Anthony Eneji, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, said in Calabar on Wednesday that the project, which also included a rice farm, would serve as production point for Calabar Rice City.
712 farmers in Daura LG receive Anchor Borrowers Programme loans
No fewer than 712 farmers in Daura Local Government Area (LGA), Katsina State, have received N90,000 each as funding support from the Federal Government’s Anchor Borrowers Programme.
C’River awards N1.16bn banana farm contract
The Cross River Government says that it has awarded N1.16 billion contract for the commencement of work on a model banana farm project in Akamkpa town of Akamkpa Local Government Area.
