Agriculture

THE Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has rescued a 25-year-old lady who had spent five years being imprisoned by her father in a room in Jigawa State. The …

THE Nigeria’s House of Representatives has urged Nigerians to resume large-scale cocoa production, so as to put it back at the top of the list of cocoa exporting countries. In …

THE Niger Delta Development Commission has charged the firm running its multi-million-naira rice mill at Elele-Alimini, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, the Elephant Group, to encourage local farmers …

THE Rivers State Government has threatened to shut down illegal and unregistered poultry as part of the measures to check the outbreak of a killer-disease ravaging poultry farms across the …

THE Federal Government has said it has closed the supply gap of four million metric tonnes of maize through the local production of the commodity by indigenous farmers in Nigeria. …

THE Federal Government has said that Nigeria is now Africa’s largest producer of rice with a production level of nine million metric tonnes. It made the announcement on Wednesday that …

THE Federal Government is set to boost the agriculture and other relevant sectors of the economy with technologies transferred into the country. Mr Mohammed Dahiru, Chairman, Presidential Implementation Committee on …

ENVIRONMENTAL approval has been issued by the Federal Government for the evaluation and open cultivation of TELA Maize. This is a new variety of genetically modified maize developed by researchers …

VICE President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has said there is a need to focus on developing Nigeria’s agricultural value chain, particularly the business of guaranteeing the creation of a proper commodity …

KADUNA State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has commissioned a tomato processing plant in the state. This is in his bid to boost the fortunes of perishable produce in the country, The …