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Researchers and some master bakers have urged bakery and confectionery businesses to experiment and adopt the use of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) to tame the rising price of bread in Nigeria.

Food vendors and transporters have identified logistics, higher costs of diesel, petrol and poor state of rural roads as some of the factors causing an abnormal rise in prices of food items

The supply of fertiliser has over the years, defied all logics, largely due to lack of adequate local production capacity, insincerity of government and activities of middlemen, which had worsened the miseries of farmers.

Cassava seed producers have raised concerns over their inability to access loans and insurance cover to hedge against risks.

Trains officers on financial management The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said it has directly invested $459million in Nigeria's Agricultural sector through domestic and international co-financings IFAD Country Director Ms Dede Ekoue disclosed this yesterday in Abuja during a 3-day Financial Management and Procurement Workshop for the Federal government IFAD projects. She disclosed that…

Nigerian farmers and agronomists have expressed concern that widespread insecurity and higher prices of farm inputs in the country are shrinking the number of hectares put to food cultivation

Borno State government has supported 30,436 flood victims with food items, cash and tractors for the 2022 farming season.

For the umpteenth time, bakers across the country again increased the price of bread, amid the harsh business environment triggered by the surging production cost.

The Federal High Court in Abuja has upheld a 2017 judgment and dismissed the suit filed by some groups against the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) for approving the commercialisation of Bt Cotton in the country.

Actually, I will like to say that we need more veterinarians to be engaged in Nigeria. In many of our states, we don’t have enough veterinarians and if you must maintain the public health system, we need veterinary services...

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tiamin Rice Milling Company, Alhaji Aminu Ahmed, has disclosed that the company, when commissioned in the next two months, would produce 600 metric tonnes of rice per day.

The former Ethiopia Prime Minister, and Board Chair of AGRA, Hailemariam Dessalegn has urged Africa’s leaders to collaborate in addressing the triple-threat problem – climate change