The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar has called for the development of the nation’s water resources even as he also made a case for the development of the agricultural sector in the country. The Sultan , who made the call ye...
As Nigeria celebrates, no concrete steps have been taken in the last years to support agriculture, despite the potential of the sector as a means of unlocking the wealth of the land for the benefit of the people, government has failed to give the secto...
The Federal Government has said it spends over N1.1trn on importation of wheat, rice, fish and sugar annually. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinnwumi Adesina, stated this in Abuja on Friday at a media briefing to commemorate f...
The President, Nigerian Institute of Animal Science(NIAS), Professor Placid Njoku, has said that Nigeria imports over 95 per cent of its milk. Speaking at the 3rd Induction Ceremony of the institute in Enugu recently, Njoku noted that livestock sector ...
Over two hundred homes and two thousand farmlands planted with crops such as yams, okra, melon, cocoyam and cassava in Ikom, in Cross River State, have been submerged in water following the overflow of Cross River. The property destroyed is estimated a...
Africa has been put on the spot over lack of investment in agriculture, especially in the wake of a food crisis owing to prolonged drought in parts of the continent. Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, said recently that lack of investment ...
In an effort to find a lasting solution to the perennial clashes of Fulani cattle rearers in Jigawa State, the federal government has planted grasses on one hundred hectares at the Sankara grazing reserve. Handing over the project, National Livestock P...
The federal government has said that it was set to increase rice production within the next two years and that by 2015, the country would be self sufficient in rice production. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, who d...
The Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe, has enjoined governments at all levels to commit more resources to agriculture to provide food security and employment opportunities for youths in thecountry. Adejugbe who made the call at the weekend during ...
Israeli ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Moshe Ram, has told the Nigerian government at various levels not to neglect mechanised agriculture, which he described as the surest way of feeding the country’s vast population. In a statement made available t...
The Nigerian Agricultural, Co-operative and Rural Development Bank Limited(NACRDB) has secured the approval of the Senate to publish names of its debtors owing N5 million and above.