Nigeria has the economic potential to generate 427.3 million dollars (N188bn) from domestic value-addition to cassava, and earn additional 2.98 billion dollars (N1.2trn) in export of the commodity annually. The Executive Director of Partnership Initiative for Niger Delta (PIND), Dara Akala, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Akala, who spoke during […]

Mr Ernest Aubee, Head of Agriculture, ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, has called on stakeholders to initiate partnership strategies to support ecological organic agriculture institutions and expertise in Africa

Nigeria produces about two million metric tonnes of Onions annually, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Muhammad Abubakar, has told the 4th Regional Onion annual conference and general meeting holding in Kano. The event was organised by Regional observatory on Onions for West and Central Africa, in collaboration with National Onion Producers, Processors […]

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Muhammad Abubakar, on Wednesday said Nigeria produce about two million metric tonnes of onions annually

To expand production belts to North-Central, South-West The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has intervened to bail farmers out of the challenge of inadequate seeds, adjudged as the most critical input retarding wheat production in the country. Farmers, researchers and industrialists have constantly faced production impediments, including poor quality of inputs and inadequate infrastructure. The […]

Ebonyi State Government, yesterday stressed that the State remains the highest producer of rice in the country with 4 million metric tonnes to showcase every year

Rural women constitute one-fourth of the world’s population and they play a critical role in the rural and national economies of most of the African countries

A N300m investment to set up community seed enterprises to increase wheat production in Nigeria was yesterday, announced by Olam, and its subsidiary Crown Flour Mill Limited (CFM).

The Federal Government says it will soon scale up the contributions of the livestock sub-sector to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, made the disclosure in Benin on Tuesday, at the 57th Annual Congress of the Nigeria Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA). Abubakar, represented by Dr […]

As farmers continue to face challenges in food production, the Institute for Agricultural Research, IAR, Samaru, Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, Monday, assured that the newly approved TELA Maize will save farmers N268 billion annually spent on insecticide

The Cross River Basin Development Authority has said its dry season farming programme is an attempt to revolutionaries the farming calendar for an all-year-round engagement of farmers in the catchment. The Managing Director of the Authority ENGR. Bassey Nkposong made the disclosure recently in Ogoja, Cross River State while flagging off the 2021 dry season […]

As hunger continues to bite harder coupled with uncontrollable rise of high cost of food in Nigeria and rest of West Africa, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, Wednesday, raised the alarm over anticipated invasion of desert locusts in the West African Sub-region

By Abdulmumin Murtala – Kano As climate change continues to worsen in the northern parts of Nigeria, even as it is the rainy season, during which farmers look up to bumper harvests, lack of rainfall for weeks in Kano has led many farmers to lose their crops especially rice. Rice which requires a consistent water […]

Hon. Muntari Dandutse Mohammad has called for special attention on prioritizing 2022 budgetary allocation for the agricultural sector to boost food security and create employment for young people

The Federal Government, weekend, assured farmers and investors on implementation of Fertilizer Quality Control Act 2019 to boost food production