Agriculture
Kwara Varsity Agric Graduates Get Million Naira BATF Grants To Start Agribusiness
The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) has awarded N6 million to four outstanding graduates from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, ...
Agriculture
FG Launches Anti-Cattle Rustling In Kwara, As AbdulRazaq Hails Tinubu’s Reforms
Kwara State Governor and Chairman Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for taking various bold steps ...
Agriculture
NILDS DG Empowers Farmers In Kwara To Achieve Food Sufficiency
Efforts of the government to achieve food sufficiency are gaining momentum with free land clearing, distribution of improved seedlings, and fertilizers, among other ...
Agriculture
Food Security: FG Flags Off Distribution of Farm Inputs
Minister of State, Ministry Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has flagged off the distribution of farm inputs to Members
Agriculture
KWSG Assures Residents On Improved Food Security, As Cadre Categorizes Kwara Among States Under Pressure
The Kwara State Government has assured of its commitment to ensuring improvement in food and nutrition security for the healthy living of residents ...
Agriculture
Tinubu Inaugurates Agricultural Machinery in Niger, Says Nigeria Must Feed Its People
President Bola Tinubu on Monday flagged off the Food Security and Agricultural Mechanization Programme in Niger State, emphasizing that his administration remains committed ...
Agriculture
Kwara Governor Inaugurates Committee On Food Security, Affordability
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday inaugurated a multi-sectoral state working committee on food security, charging them to work with all stakeholders ...
Agriculture
BATNF Announces Plan To Empower Unilorin Agric Graduates With Millions
In a significant move towards promoting sustainable agricultural development and fostering agricpreneurship, the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) has announced its commitment ...
Agriculture
Lagos Signs MoU With Niger Over Food Production And Supply
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his Niger State counterpart Hon. Mohammed Bago on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the ...
Agriculture
Agric Union Challenges Kwara Govt To Prioritise Farming, Gives Hints On Way Out
The Nigerian Union of Agriculture and Allied Employees (NUAAE) Kwara State chapter has challenged the state government to address food shortage in the ...
Agriculture
GMD UniAbuja Ventures, Teslim Secures $30m Agric Funding From Turkish Investors
In a bid to enhance farming activities in the country, the University of Abuja, UniAbuja Ventures Limited has concluded plans to enroll 100,000 ...
Agriculture
Food security: FG To Reposition NCAM To Improve Agriculture Mechanization
The Federal Government has said it was set and poised to reposition the National Centre for Agriculture Mechanization (NCAM) to improve the agriculture ...
Agriculture
KWSG Inaugurates Committee On Utilization Of $57.2m Islamic Dev’t Bank Funds To Boost Farming
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has inaugurated the Kwara State Steering Committee for the implementation of the Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ), a multimillion-dollar project ...
Agriculture
Kwara Seeks River Basin’s Support On Food Security
The Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Ilorin has expressed its readiness to partner with the Kwara State Ministry of Agriculture and Rural ...
Agriculture
Kwara Varsity charges graduands to uphold insitution’s values
By Bushrah Yusuf-Badmus The Acting Vice Chancellor, Kwara State University (KWASU), Prof. Jimoh Shayk-Luqman has charged graduands of the university to uphold the ...
Agriculture
Irrigation Farming: Lower Niger River Basin Test-Runs Solar-Powerd Pumps, Targets 200 In Kwara, Kogi
In line with the federal government’s mandate on building sustainable irrigation farming in the country aimed at forcing down cost of crop production ...
Agriculture
Oyo Govt. Lists Criteria For Disbursing N1Bn Loan To Farmers
The Chairman, Oyo State Agricultural Credit Corporation of Oyo State, (ACCOS), Sheik Taofik Akeugbagold, has listed the criteria being used to disburse the ...
Agriculture
NUAAE Seeks Inclusion of Agric Workers in FG’s Food Security Programme
Nigerian Union of Agriculture and Allied Employees Union (NUAAE) has called for the Inclusion of the Workforce in the Government's
Agriculture
FG moves to remove taxes on tomatoes, raw food items soon, says chairman Joint Tax Board
Mr Muhammad Nami, Chairman of the Joint Tax Board (JTB), on Monday, said the Federal Government will soon end taxes on tomatoes and ...
Agriculture
Stakeholders raise voices against influx of genetically modified crops into Nigeria’s food system
Stakeholders in the agricultural sector on Wednesday decried the high influx of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) into the food system in Nigeria. The ...
Agriculture
Let agric drive national development, farmers urge Tinubu
Farmers have called on the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to walk his campaign talk regarding the use of agriculture, specifically maize and ...
Agriculture
Agric researcher urges farmers to use organic fertilizer
Professor Sani Yusuf of the National Agricultural Extension Research and Liaison Services (NAERLS/ABU) Zaria has advised farmers to adopt the use of organic ...
Agriculture
LASG delivers smartfarms to schools, charges students on agriculture
The Lagos State Government has urged secondary students in the state to embrace agriculture as a means of livelihood and for income generation. ...
Agriculture
Tomato scarcity looms as farmers lose N1.5b to disease
Nigeria is likely to witness tomato scarcity as over 500 farmers lose 300-hectare farm valued at N1.5 billion to tomato Ebola known as ...
Agriculture
FG ask farmers to seek alternative animal feeds
The Federal Government has called on Nigerian farmers to look for alternative source of feeds for their animals to enable the country attain ...
Agriculture
Poultry farmer advocates egg powder factory
Mrs Juiiana Ibitoye, Chairperson, Erokorodo Poultry Farm Estate, Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos, has appealed to the federal and state governments to set ...
Agriculture
Kwara Govt Supports 4,000 Farmers With Free Inputs
As part of efforts to ensure food security in the state and country, the Kwara state government on Tuesday supported four thousand farmers ...
Agriculture
Buhari lauds $538m agric fund by AfDB, others
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday in Senegal, lauded the provision of $538.05m by the African Development Bank, the Islamic ...
Agriculture
Ukraine to establish grain hubs in Nigeria
The Government of Ukraine has expressed its readiness to establish grain hubs in Nigeria and other African countries. Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy ...
Agriculture
Abia LIFE-ND distributes farm inputs to beneficiaries
The Abia State Project Coordinating Office of the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises for Niger Delta (LIFE-ND), has commenced the distribution of farm inputs ...
Agriculture
AbdulRazaq pledges more support for Agribusiness, As Farm Kwara rounds off 2022 farming season
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said the administration has continued to invest in agriculture and agribusiness to fight hunger and boost the ...
Agriculture
Osinbajo tasks NIPSS to brainstorm on food security
Vice -President Yemi Osinbajo has tasked the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies(NIPSS) to plan, interpret and predict trends on food security, ...
Agriculture
KWSG Distributes Fertilizers to Farmers in Patigi, Edu LGAs
The Kwara State Government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, has distributed 1,200 bags of Fertilizers to farmers and flood victims ...
Agriculture
FG Distributes Inputs To Rice Farmers
Federal Government says it is committed to boosting food production with limited resources and the challenges of the post-Covid-19 era and natural disasters. ...
Agriculture
Devastating flood won’t cause food scarcity – Nigeria govt
The Federal Government has promised food security in Nigeria despite the devastating floods in recent time. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammad ...
Agriculture
Nigeria can break chain of poverty through food security, safety net – Gov AbdulRazaq
Nigeria and Africa can easily break the shackles of poverty through proper investments that lead to food security as well as various safety ...
Agriculture
Food security: Ondo urges agricultural loan defaulters to pay
The Ondo state government has called on all agricultural loan defaulters across the 18 local government areas to pay all their outstanding debts ...
Agriculture
We’ve created 10million jobs in agric, Buhari tells UNGA
Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in New York, United States, that the Federal Government under his ...
Agriculture
Poverty alleviation: Senator Odebiyi, institutes collaborate on fish production, value chain training
Nation’s experts in agriculture and agricultural value addition have lamented government’s poor attitude to fish farming/production, saying that Nigeria still imports fish for ...
Agriculture
FG inaugurates facilities for agric training institute
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, has inaugurated the regional offices and hostels for Agricultural and Rural Management Training ...
Agriculture
Nigeria Signs Agreement With Poland On Agriculture
Nigeria and Poland have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU on Agriculture. Both countries also pledged their willingness to enlarge the fields of ...
Agriculture
Nigeria Generates N14b From Cashew Export – NCAN
The National Cashew Association of Nigeria, NCAN, says the value chain generated about fourteen billion naira as revenue for exporting the produce in ...
Agriculture
FG inaugurates National Council on Animal Welfare to ensure global best practices
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar has formally inaugurated the National Council on Animal Welfare, NCAW, with a charge ...
Agriculture
Gov Zulum visits farmers, Explains FG’s Fertilizer Ban In Borno
Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday toured 10 farmlands in the outskirts of four local governments: Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, Jere, Mafa ...
Agriculture
CBN Gov Commission N600m Unilorin Poultry Farm, Challenges Other Institutions To Emulate
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele on Thursday commissioned a 600 million naira poultry farm project at the University ...
Agriculture
N600m UNILORIN integrated Poultry Farm Ready for Commissioning
All is now set for the official commissioning of the UNILORIN GGMAX Integrated Poultry Farm located at Amoyo in Ifelodun Local Government Area ...
Agriculture
Organisation, Aisha Buhari Foundation partner to empower women farmers
The Islamic Organisation for Food Security (IOFS) is to partner with the Aisha Buhari Foundation (ABF) to provide technical support for women in ...
Agriculture
Anchor Borrower Loan: CBN To Clampdown On Defaulters
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has appealed to farmers who defaulted in paying back the loans obtained under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme ...
Agriculture
Agriculture Network hosts 1st Intl conference on food security, trains 200 farmers on value chain devt
The Kwara Agriculture Network has reinstated its commitment to promoting the Sustainable Development Goal 2 in line with the United Nations mandate to ...
Agriculture
Access Bank partners FG to roll out loans for farmers, SMEs
Access Bank Plc has partnered the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to roll out a loan scheme for poor ...
Agriculture
NALDA trains 200 young farmers on animal, crop production abroad
The National Agricultural Lands Development Authority, NALDA, on Wednesday, said 200 young farmers would be going to Israel and Morocco for capacity building ...
Agriculture
FG Inaugurates National Steering Committees to Boost Food Security
The Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja inaugurated five National Steering Committees for donor-funded projects implemented by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and ...
Agriculture
Foremost Indigenous Agricultural Promoter Charges Youths to Emulate Obasanjo
Nigeria’s foremost indigenous agricultural technology promoter, Agrichainx Innovative Technology, has charged Nigerian youth to emulate former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, whom it described ...
Agriculture
Take advantage of agro-allied, other empowerment initiatives, FG tells Nigerian youths
The federal government has called on the teeming unemployed youth in the country to take advantage of the various youth initiatives and programmes ...
Agriculture
Cashew Production: Nigeria Now Behind Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau — Agric Expert
An agricultural expert, Mrs. Amina Abdulmalik has disclosed that Nigeria was at a time rated very high in the international market in terms ...
Agriculture
Unilorin Secures N.6b CBN Loan for Integrated Poultry Farm Project
The University of Ilorin has secured a loan of N600, 000, 000 from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to establish and run ...
Agriculture
Minister Urges Youth to Channel Energy, Talents To Agricultural Investment
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare, has called on Youth in the country to take advantage of the present ...
Agriculture
NESREA Seizes Endangered Lion, Arrests 2 Suspected Illegal Wildlife Traders
National Environmental Standard and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), on Thursday, seized a lion (cub) and arrested two men for alleged illegal trading in ...
Agriculture
FG Pledges to Assist Fish Farmers to Increase Production
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, has pledged Federal Government’s assistance to the fishery value chain to boost production. ...
Agriculture
Kwara on The Path of Emerging Food Basket of The Nation – Says Com for Agric
The Kwara State Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon. Saba Gideon, has claimed that the state is on the verge of becoming ...