Yobe Government on Friday launched the sale of 12,000 bags of assorted grains to people at subsidised rate of N2,000 against the N8,000 price in the open market. Launching the programme in Damaturu, Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam, said the government procured the...
The Federal Government is putting structures in place with a view to stopping rice importation by 2015, an official said on Monday. Mr Amos Afowowe, Deputy Director, Agro-Processing and Marketing, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, said this in Kaduna wh...
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, said on Monday in Abuja that plans were underway to boost fish production in Rivers and Bayelsa. He said this when King Barnabas Bagia, Vice-President of the Ogoni Supreme Council ...
Mr Mfon Essien, the Acting Director of the Cross River Basin Development Authority (CRBDA), said on Wednesday that the Federal Government has been spending one billion naira annually on rice importation. Essien made the announcement in Calabar when he ...
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha (PDP-Taraba), says the agriculture sector will thrive better if the Federal Government dedicates 10 per cent of the national budget to it. Bwacha, who made the statement in an in...
Benue State Government has approved the release of N1.485b for the procurement of 400 trucks of assorted brands of fertiliser for distribution and sales to farmers in the 2012 cropping season. The state government has also approved the release an...
Vice President Namadi Sambo, yesterday, told a high level trade delegation from Japan that Nigeria has over 85 million hectares of uncultivated arable land. The Vice President gave this figure while receiving the delegation led by the Nigerian Am...
Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the Chairman of the National Agricultural Foundation of Nigeria (NAFN) has expressed regret over the low turn out of states at the annual National Agricultural Show. Adamu said this on Monday in Abuja at the stakeholders' meet...
Niger State Government has advocated the need to embrace the initiative of the Growth Enhancement Scheme for the benefit of farmers and agricultural production in the State. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Mr. Daniel Clifford Shashere discl...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) sent a request to Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, seeking documents on the financial allocations and public expenditure on water projects in the past five year...
The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has warned Nigeria against cassava export, saying the country would not get full value from the export. The IITA Station Manager, Mr Olusegun Adunoye, made this known in an interview wit...
A Gbagyi monarch, Chief Samuel Yabusan, has decried the absence of land to build and farm in his domain. The lack of farmland follows federal government’s decision to make Abuja the seat of government. Speaking exclusively to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND a...
Cocoa growers in the country have expressed concern over the 20 per cent decline in production recorded between 2008 and 2012. Dr Tunde Arosanyin, tthe National Coordinator of the Golden Cocoa Growers Association of Nigeria (GCGAN), said this in ...
The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, has spoken of the need for agriculture to form the backbone of the nation’s economy as was the case before the discovery of oil in Nigeria. The royal father spoke when he received a delegation on the Fadama ...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development has secured N30 billion funding to support seed and fertiliser companies, according to the Minister, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina. Adesina disclosed this in Abuja at the Ministerial Platform organised to mark t...