Category: Agriculture
USAID Donates N5m Agricultural Equipment, Grants to Smallholder Farmers in Niger
By Correspondent in Minna. The USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Rural Resilience Activity which is implemented by Mercy Corps Nigeria has donated agricultural...
Gombe Governor Visits NALDA Office, Assures of Sustained Partnership To Boost Wheat Production
By Omowumi Samuel in Abuja. Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe state says his administration remains committed towards strengthening the existing partnership...
Agribusiness, Marketing Agency To Partner MSME Forum for Growth,Development
By Goodluck Ikiebe. The Agribusiness and Marketing Department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, FMARD, and the Micro, Small and Medium...
Don Advocates Agricultural Policy Reform
By Correspondent in Ilorin. Prof. Adesina Raji has called for pragmatic agricultural policy reform that would meet national output target in the agricultural...
Nigerian Government Tasks Youths on Agro-Allied Ventures
By Goodluck Ikiebe in Abuja. The Federal Government has called on the teeming unemployed youths in the country to take advantage of the various youth initiatives and...
IFAD/VCDP Boost Agric. Service Delivery In Kogi
By Correspondent in Lokoja. Resource person teaching participants on standard weight and measure. The Kogi State IFAD Value Chain Development Programme...
Maximise agric. potential to create wealth, expert urges govt
By Correspondent in Ilorin. Nigeria needs to maximise the potential in agriculture to create wealth and as part of efforts to diversify the economy to ensure increased...
Castor oil can earn Nigeria N25b, uplift 500,000 families annually– Perm.Sec.
By Correspondent in Ilorin. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Ernest Umakhihe, has said that castor oil had the...
How to reduce hunger in Nigeria–Arosanyin
KEHINDE EMMANUEL, ILORIN The Chairman, stakeholders of All Farmers Association of Nigeria(AFAN), Dr Tunde Arosanyin, has urged the Federal government to ensure that...
Seed Council: UI trains staff on management of tissue culture laboratory
By Correspondent in Ibadan. The National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) and Department of Crop Protection and Environmental Biology, University of Ibadan, have begun a...