FG Set to Boost Sesame Seed Production – Nanono
The Federal Government has launched a pilot scheme for the production of Sesame Seed in Jigawa, Yobe and Borno State. The initiative is aimed at engaging unemployed youths in the production of sesame seeds for exportation. This was recently disclosed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, during a two-day
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FG Confident in Tackling Inflation, Food Insecurity – Osinbajo
The Federal Government is well disposed to tackling the current inflation and other challenges of food security in the country. This was recently expressed virtually by the Vice-President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, during the preparatory meeting of the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021. Osinbajo stated that the Nigerian Government was committed to addressing the
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FMN’s innovation in food production drives up first-quarter revenue by 51%
Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN), the country’s leading integrated and agro-allied group, saw a 51 percent jump in its revenue growth, driven mainly by innovation in its food segment in the first quarter of 2021. FMN revenue for the period rose from N154.6 billion to N233.7 billion in the corresponding period in 2020/2021, a 51percent year-on-year
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BATNF emerges ‘Best Sustainability in Agric’ at West Africa Innovation Awards
The British American Tobacco Nigerian Foundation (BATNF) has clinched the ‘Best Sustainability in Agriculture’ and ‘Best Sustainability in Youth and Economic Development awards for excellence in sustainability at the West Africa Innovation Award held recently in Lagos. The West Africa Innovation Awards seeks to promote excellence, creativity, and innovation among brands and brand professionals in the West
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Nigeria Can Become World’s Largest Cocoa Producer – Nanono
Nigeria has the capacity to overtake Ivoire, Ghana and Indonesia to become the largest cocoa producer in the world, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammed Sabo Nanono has said. Nanono made this assertion in Akure, Ondo State while formally opening the newly established National Secretariat of the Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN)
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Food insecurity looms in Northern Nigeria — UN
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Global Environment Facility (GEF) said the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had warned that people in northern Nigeria are at risk of acute food insecurity. The UN-FAO projected that an estimated 13 million people in the area face the risk of acute food insecurity in the next few
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‘Off-grid Tech Solutions cost effective, sustainable for farmers, SMEs’
Energy amassed from off-grid renewable resources will assist in raising farmers productivity as well as Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and significantly reduce the exorbitant cost of electricity required for agricultural processing. This was disclosed by Stephen Ogboko, executive director and chief operating officer, Off Grid Tech Solutions Ltd, at the formal introduction of the
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Railway System to Reduce Food Prices Significantly – Nanono
The prices of food in the country would be significantly reduced with efficient use of the railway system, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono has said. According to Nanono, the rise in food prices in the country was due to high transportation costs, citing effective maintenance of the railway system as a
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UN Partners Nigeria, Others on Climate Change Resilience
Nigeria has restated its commitment to protecting the world’s forests and natural habitats from destruction, in view of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2021 (COP26). This initiative, centered on the Forest, Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue, has taken steps to bring together over 20 countries from Europe, Asia and Latin America. Press and
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Shrinking market discourages cotton production by Nigerian farmers
Nigeria’s cotton industry is fast sliding towards extinction on account of a shrinking local market and low seeds available to farmers, despite the incentives of an alluring $3 trillion global industry. More so, many of Nigeria’s cotton farmers have shifted to growing other crops. Stakeholders have attributed the decline in cotton production to low-quality key inputs
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