Professionals call for more insurance, funding in agric as population explode
Lead paper presenters at the 2018 agricultural symposium organised by the agricultural group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry have advocated scaling up of risk mitigation through insurance, funding and industrialisation of agriculture as essentials of food security as the population growth in the country increases. Chairman of the agric group of the
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Emulate Kebbi’s 10% budgets to agriculture, stakeholders tell other states
Professionals and stakeholders in the agricultural sector have called on other states in the country to emulate the Kebbi State government, which has been working the talking by consistently allocating over 10 per cent of the state budget to the sector since 2015. The Coordinator of Oxfam International (an international confederation of 20 Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working
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FRIN demonstrates quick-return agro-allied enterprises for youths
The Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) has demonstrated that youths, women and retirees can make millions of naira practicing low-capital agriculture with its simple, innovative but profitable agro-allied enterprise prototypes. The model enterprises include cane rat, rabbit and snail farming, with simple housing, cost-effective feeds and sustainable returns on investments regularly. The institute has
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Wheat is a political crop — Wheat farmers’ chair
The Chairman of Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria (WFAN), Kebbi State chapter, Alhaji Abdullahi Saidu Argungu, has described wheat as a crop suffering from calculated tactic by certain people in high places to frustrate local production. Speaking on the politics of wheat production in the country with Daily Trust at the just concluded National Agricultural
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Blight ravages rice farms
Farms are coming under attack by rice disease caused by blight. This is coming on the heels of the recent floods that destroyed rice farms across the country. Blight is a broad range of plant diseases that cause browning, yellowing and withering followed by death of plant tissues. Plants attacked by the disease have discoloured
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I’m disappointed with Nigerian press over agric programme — Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed disappointment with the Nigerian press over the coverage of his ‘go back to land agricultural revolution’ programme. Speaking at a dinner for youth political appointees at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday night, he said the press did not give the credit of the ongoing transformation in the agricultural sector
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FG, IFAD to host national commodity alliance forum
The International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development are partnering to convene a national workshop on the Commodity Alliance Forum (CAF). The CAF which was pioneered by the IFAD Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) in six states of Anambra, Benue, Ebonyi, Niger, Ogun and Taraba galvanized smallholder farmers
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Gombe to recruit 750 extension workers
Gombe State Government has concluded plans to recruit 750 extension workers as part of efforts to boost the capacity of farmers in the state. The State’s Commissioner of Agriculture, Alhaji Dahiru Buba-Biri, disclosed this when he received the Country Director, Sasakawa Global 2000, Prof. Sani Ahmed-Miko, who paid him a courtesy visit in his office
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AfDB agric pact with Purdue varsity fires youths’ passions
Increasing youth engagement in profitable agriculture and agribusiness is critical for sustainable agricultural development. For Miriam Ahuna Ofoeze, a young processor at the National Root Crops Research Institute in Umudike, Abia State, nothing now stands between her and her goal of becoming a successful agribusiness entrepreneur. Thanks to an innovative training programme sponsored by the
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Ogbeh commends women over 70% contributions to food production
The Federal Government has commended Nigerian women farmers for contributing no less than 70% to the national food production. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr Audu Ogbeh, expressed the commendation while launching the National Gender Action Plan (NGAP) for agriculture to build capacities of Nigerian women. The minister said that the objectives of the National Gender
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