In efforts to boost rice production, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), in collaboration with the Gombe State Government, has embarked on sensitisation of farmers on dry season farming

Farmers’ participation in dry season planting in Akwa Ibom state has scaled up tremendously in the last four years. The rave in engagement in the dry season farming by both full-time farmers and individuals who engage in farming as a past-time at subsistent scale is attributable to the concerted policy by the Udom Emmanuel administration which seeks to move farmers in the state away from the traditional one season planting to three planting seasons.

The Plateau State Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the last election, Senator Jeremiah Useni has again reiterated the need for Nigerians irrespective of their type of job to engage in farming activities so that the tide of prevailing hunger in the nation can be curbed.

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Nigerian farmers as they have been “saving us billions of dollars yearly which would have been spent on food importation.’’ Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said the President made his feelings known in a special video message on the occasion of the […]

Mr. Chuks Egbue, Anambra Programme Manager, FADAMA 111 has called for mechanised farming in the country to curb incessant farmers/herdsmen crises. Egbue said on Monday in Awka, that farmers/herdsmen crises were more witnessed in the hinterland where bushes and farmlands exist. “Mechanised farming, if embraced will go a long way in curbing these unnecessary clashes […]