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African smallholder farmers are set to benefit from Impulse Start-up Accelerator program.

Inadequate access to government intervention funds, excessive electricity billing and government’s preference for purchasing from contractors have been identified as major challenges facing indigenous food processing companies.

Edo State Government has taken moves to strengthen partnerships to engender a sustainable oil palm sector and safeguard its forest belt.

The support of externally financed projects has been described as the needed drive to ensure that the Lagos State agricultural policies come to fruition.

Scientists have been charged to undertake researches geared towards improving livestock production technologies that would facilitate attainment of food security in the country.

On challenges, what we need to do is to do a data analysis of the poultry industry so that we can really ascertain the capacity because most of the figures we parade have to be confirmed.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, has harped on the inevitability of agricultural research, innovations and applied technologies in the food security drive of the country.

Professionals have reiterated that the programme for improved regional fishery governance in West Africa will help Nigeria to have easy access to international funds for investments in the aquaculture sub-sector which will enhance regulations.

He said the essence of the law was to have three schools of agriculture that would be training the needed manpower to drive and sustain the ongoing reforms in the agricultural sector in the state.

The Green Alternative, a policy and strategy document of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture says, “The new policy regime, tagged the Agriculture Promotion Policy (APP), is founded...

Experts have said the Agricultural Promotion Policy (APP) of the Federal Government has not achieved the intended results four years after its launch due to inadequate infrastructure.

Nigerian engineers have identified gender disparity in agricultural policy formulation and land tenure system as challenges to agricultural mechanisation and food security in the country.