Food security: Sirika inaugurates committee to review effect of rainfall
By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, Monday inaugurated an inter-ministerial committee, charged with the responsibility of reviewing from 2015 to 2018 the impact of seasonal rainfall prediction, SRP, of the Nigerian Metrological Agency, NIMET, on the nation’s food security. According to the minister, the prediction which is very scientific and […]
Food security: Lagos set to increase rice production
As part of measures to ensure food security in the state, Lagos State Government has disclosed plans to increase its rice production through expansion of its mill at Imota from 2.5metric tonnes per hour to 16 metric tonnes per hour.
Food Security: African Lead II, USAID, train women
Africa Lead, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, has completed leadership training for selected women and youths in the country on agriculture with special focus on food security.
FAO, Onu deliberate on challenges of sleeping sickness to food security
TALKS between the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, and the FAO Sub-regional Coordinator and Representative to the African Union and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, UNECA, Mr. Patrick Kormawa, on the menace of Animal Trypasonomiasis took centrestage recently.
Food security: Lagos grants N16m loan to farmers
… distributes farming tools
THE Lagos State Government has presented N16 million loan facility to five farmers’ cooperative societies and distributed various farming tools to over 200 farming households in Lagos, aimed at boosting food production in the state.
