agriculture

The Executive Director, Dr Abayomi Olaniyan, National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), on Monday, said Nigeria should intensify efforts in Agricultural value chain development to optimise returns from investment.Olaniyan told…

Stakeholders in the agricultural sector of Bayelsa State have called on the state government to continue to invest and encourage youths involved in artisanal refining to embrace farming as a means of ending issues of pipeline vandalism.…

Gombe state chapter of the Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) has decried the non-release of fund allocated for SWOFON in the 2020 state budget.The lamentation was made on Monday by the leadership of SWOFON while…

Nigerian Farmers have tackled the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development over its plan to spend N13bn on control of pests in 12 northern states.Recall that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development…

The African Development Bank (AfDB), has enlisted Ogun State as a special agricultural processing zone to revive all aspects of the agricultural value chain, especially in aquaculture.The Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Adeola Odedina,…

The House of Representatives on Tuesday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency in the agriculture sector with the view to activate aggressive agricultural revolution and promote food security as a benchmark to…

With the drastic reduction in oil revenue and COVID-19 induced economic downturn, the Federal Government has entered an agricultural equipment partnership with Brazil that will ultimately earn the country an estimated €995 million revenue.…

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State said it has become necessary for Nigerians to invest in agriculture, by growing what they eat to guarantee food and national security, in view of the Coronavirus pandemic ravaging the globe.He stated…

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared that the state government is working to make agriculture a major revenue earner for the state, in view of the dwindling revenue from oil.Speaking during a courtesy visit by the Ambassador…

Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have said that Nigeria has the potential that could be harnessed to earn beyond $200 million (N72bn) annually from cashew nuts export.The stakeholders who made this revelation recently at the…