Stakeholders Task African Leaders on Food Wastage, Storage

The Regional Coordinator, United Nations Environment and Climate Change, Dr. Richard Munang has said the African continent would save up to...

How to Manage Egg Breakage by Layer Chickens

Egg breakage by layer chickens is something most poultry farmers are familiar with. An expert, Musa Abdulrahman of National Animal Produc...

How to Reduce Catfish Fingerlings/Juveniles Mortality

Catfish farmers using earthen ponds, surface tanks, plastic tanks etc. often face the challenge of high fingerlings mortality rates when ra...

Orange-fleshed Potato has Lots of Health, Economic Potentials – Farmer

Farmers have been encouraged to grow a breed of potato called Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) because it has a lot of economic importanc...

W/Bank Trains 1300 Kano Farmers on Addressing Agronomic Problems

One thousand three hundred Kano State farmers received training on measures to adopt in addressing agronomic problems as a way of improving...

CG Ali, Ogbeh Synergise On Importation

The Comptroller General of Customs, Col.(rtd) Hameed Ali, reiterated the commitment of the NCS to work together with the Minister of Agricu...

Poor Funding Hindering Agricultural Growth – NIRSAL MD

The Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing system for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Mr Aliyu Abdulhameed, has said ...

FG Lauds Masari over Increase in Rice Production

The Federal Government has praised Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari over increase in rice production and other grains in the state...

Al-Makura Donates Rice Processing Plant to Millers

Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has constructed and handed over a modern rice processing plant to rice millers in Lafia to...

Kogi Moves To End Herdsmen, Farmers Clash

The crisis between herdsmen and farmers in Kogi State will soon be a thing of the past as the governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello‎, has given a m...

Addressing GMOs’ Promise, Problems

The debate over the promise and problems of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) has continued to rage. GMO has become a controversial top...

NACCIMA, Others Hold Summit to Revolutionise Agriculture in Nigeria

The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has partnered with Kunoch Nigeria Limited, as...

Sesame Farming Suffers as Katsina Farmers Turn to High Profit Crops

Sesame farming has suffered setback this year in Katsina State as farmers in the state are gradually switching over to the cultivation of f...

15 Danish Firms eye Nigeria’s Food, Agric Business

At least 15 Danish companies signed agreements with Nigerian investors on Monday in possible hopes of doing business in Nigeria, targeting ...

Dickson, CBN, Others Laud Mosilo Bayelsa Rice Outgrowers Scheme

Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson has praised Moses Siloko Siasia for initiating the Mosilo Bayelsa Rice Outgrowers Scheme, stressing...

NIRSAL Has Solution to Herdsmen/farmers Clashes — Abdulhameed

Bureau Chief ABUJA—The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL, has the solution to the debilitating c...

Ogbeh: Rice Importation from Thailand Has Dropped to 20,000 MT

Nigeria has drastically cut the volume of its rice shipments from Thailand to 20,000 metric tonnes from 644,000 mt it was importing by Sept...

Foreigners Taking Over Nigeria’s Agric Sector, Says FG

Foreigners are currently taking over Nigeria’s agricultural sector as a result of the excessively high interest rates being demanded from i...

‘Why Senate Passed Kabba Agric Varsity Bill Into Law’

The need to address educational needs and bring about economic transformation for the people of Kogi State and the nation at large has info...

Poultry Sector As Metaphor for our Problems – Dele Sobowale

Governing Italians is not impossible; it is merely useless.” Benito Mussolini, 1883-1945. Italian Fascist leader.  Mussolini was fortunat...

Customs Boss, Commends Ogbeh on Agric Training for Officers

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali(retd), had lauded the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chie...

Delta Economic Think-tank Empowers ‘Agripreneurs’

The Delta Economic Summit Group (DESG) has empowered several agripreneurs at a seminar hosted by the Delta Small and Medium Development Age...

“Nigeria Inching Closer To Achieving Self-Sufficiency In Rice”

Some investors from Thailand have even shown interest in establishing rice milling plants in Nigeria, a development that would further boost...

Agri-business Expert Urges Govt to Recruit Extension Workers

World Bank’s Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria (TRIMMING) project’s agri-business specialist, Malam Hallai Garba has urged the ...

UN Assist 711,750 Farmers with Dry Season Farm ToolsUN Assist 711,750 Farmers with Dry Season Farm Tools

The United Nations For Food and Agriculture on Thursday has launched dry season farming an assisted 711,750 farmers from States of Adamawa,...

Food Crisis Looms as Northeast Farmers Yet to Access Farm - Report

A draft report on human rights assessment says a major food crisis is imminent in the northeast as many farmers in Adamawa,  Borno and Yobe...

Rice Production: Minister Commends Bauchi Gov.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe has commended Bauchi State Governor, Mohammed A. Abubakar for giving agr...

Nurturing Young Agric Entrepreneurs in Africa

Considered the “Nobel Prize for Agriculture,” the World Food Prize is awarded each year for a specific and exceptionally significant contri...