The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has approved a project worth 80-million-dollars for Nigeria, says Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development. Adesina disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja while ans...
The re-occurring cases of foot and mouth diseases in cattle is affecting cattle grazers in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa, an official said. Mr John Na’imu, a Director of Agriculture and Veterinary Department in Fufore Local Government C...
No fewer than 675,000 persons have lost their jobs due to the decline in cotton production and neglect of the textile sector, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Bukar Tijjani has said. Speaking in Katsina yesterday, at a one d...
Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State has promised that his administration would pay more attention to the agriculture sector. In a telephone interview with LEADERSHIP WEEKEND shortly after an award in the United States of America in recognition...
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in conjunction with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has evolved modalities to give loans to cassava farmers in the country through various commercial banks. Mr. James Olatunji, an offi...
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, said yesterday that a whopping N27.50 billion has been syndicated to banks for the supply of fertiliser for 2012 farming season. Disclosing this to newsmen in Abuja, the minister...
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N27 billion as 50 per cent subsidy for the supply of fertiliser to rural farmers in 2012. The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adeshina, disclosed this after the Council meeting presided over by ...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has identified the lack of continuity of agricultural policies and programmes by successive governments as a major factor responsible for food insecurity in Africa. Obasanjo made the observation in Abeokuta on Saturda...
The Ogun Government has dismissed allegations that it refused to disburse the N1 billion agriculture loan it had accessed from the Federal Government on behalf of the farmers in the State. The state chapter of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AF...
The Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says Nigeria has been losing about 10 billion dollars annually in export opportunities in the agriculture sector. Adesina, who stated this at the Lake Chad Research Institute Field Day in Keronwa, Marte...
The Niger State Government has said that before the rains set in, it will rally 250,000 farmers for the first phase of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) of the federal government. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Develo...
The Kwara State Government, yesterday, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on rice cultivation; processing and packaging with a Spain based Vasolar Consortium. Under the arrangement the consortium would contribute N70 billion over a period of fo...
The Bassa Nge Development Union (BNDU), of Kogi State has made plans to disburse loans to farmers who are indigenes of Bassa Local Government Area of the state. The public relations officer of the union, Alhaji Idris Abdullahi, who made this known in a...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised government at all levels to take agriculture more seriously as it could be a money spinner for the nation if properly harnessed. Obasanjo said this yesterday at the South west zonal conference of the Zonal...
Over the last 5 years, Nigerian cocoa grower prices increased more than 50 per cent to the current average of N460,000 per MT. The United States imported cocoa products estimated at $40 million from Nigeria in 2010.Currently, co...