Agriculture

SENATE President, Ahmed Lawan, on Sunday, inaugurated a 30,000-birds capacity farm estate in Gasamu village, Gashua Local Government Area of Yobe, initiated by the National Agricultural Lands Development Authority (NALDA). …

ABOUT 2,463 farmers have benefitted from the Federal Government Agricultural Inputs Intervention Programme to provide succour for affected victims of flood disaster in year 2020, the Ogun State Government has …

ALL Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Niger has said that farmers in the state were producing more crops due to the weather predictions by Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet). Alhaji …

THE construction of the Federal Government’s integrated farm estate has commenced in Ogun State with a target of engaging 1500 workers and generate a revenue of N2bn annually after its …

AS a move towards boosting the production of yam in the country, the Federal Government has trained 20 yam farmers in Ebonyi on new technique known as the “sackbag’’ yam …

A NEW plan has been announced by the ECOWAS Commission and partners on a new Regional Action Plan to implement its rice policy. Reports say the project commonly known as …

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 …

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 farmers in Aisu, …

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 Governor, …

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 ahead …