Agriculture

THE Federal Government has been called upon by farmers to prevail on the Central Bank of Nigeria to extend the loan repayment period for the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme following the…
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GOVERNOR Gboyega Oyetola of Osun on Tuesday distributed 100,000 cocoa seedlings to farmers in the state to boost production. Oyetola, while giving out the farm inputs to the…
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THE sum of N736.51 billion has been disbursed to 3,734,939 smallholder farmers cultivating 4.6 million hectares by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This was disclosed by the CBN…
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THE Manager of the United Nations Environment Programme, James Lomax, has said low dietary diversity in food globally has become a ‘primary driver of death’. He made the statement…
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STAKEHOLDERS in the agriculture value chain, including farmers and other operators, have called on the Federal Government to stop delaying the release of the already approved loans…
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has urged for more participation in agriculture across Nigeria after expressing surprise that only 2.5 per cent of arable lands in the country is being…
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THE Federal Government is set to empower 2.2 million farmers with about N12.3 billion agricultural subsidy in a few weeks. This is coming after President Buhari approved a N6.15…
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GOVERNOR Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has dropped the price of NPK 15:15 fertilizer to N7,500 from N9,600. He made the announcement on Friday at the commencement of NPK 15:15 sales…
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THE International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has revealed plans to invest on two major daily consumed staple crops in Enugu State. This was disclosed by Enugu State…
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THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP), has approved the release of 50,000 metric tonnes of maize to 12 major producers, from the strategic…
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