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Osun State government has commenced allocation of farmland in the new Ago-Owu Farm Settlement to 500 smallholder farmers in the state.Head, Corporate and Commercial Services, Osun Agricultural Land Holding and Development Authority, Mr. Wole Ajewole.....

Edo State government has disclosed that its fertiliser company-Edo State Fertilizer and Chemical Company Limited (ESFCCL), Auchi, has produced enough fertilizer to serve its farmers and neighbouring states for the 2018-planting season.

Twenty-seven containers of automated rice seedlings equipment have arrived the Ayade industrial park in Calabar.The equipment, which are ready for installation include; transplanting and harvesting machines, sorter of various types, rice hullers, graders....

The Director General/CEO of the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba has given importers of Genetically Modified Seeds (GM Seeds) a seven-day ultimatum, starting from last Friday, to formalise their dealings or risk being shut down.

A Nigerian postgraduate student and participant at the Global Food Security Symposium, Oyewale Abioye, has told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that Nigeria must keep up its progress in dairy agri-business by encouraging public-private partnerships. He made this submission at the just concluded Global Food Security Symposium held in Washington DC, United States where…

The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATN) and the University of (UI) are forging a partnership that will encourage more of its graduates into agribusiness. The deal will allow some graduates of the institution to access funds to start their own farms.  Speaking about importance of food security, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Abel…

Despite success stories recorded by African countries in agriculture over the years, with Nigeria recording 300 per cent increase in cassava production; Kenya’s horticulture export growing to 10 per cent yearly; and also Ethiopian horticulture increasing by 40 per cent per year, the continent is still lagging behind, due to array of challenges. The pressing…

The Wal Wanne Rice Farming (WWRF) Company in Borno State said it is set to engage 250, 000 farmers this year, under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Anchor Borrowers’ programme. Each farmer would be loaned N256, 526.60 with farm inputs to cultivate a minimum of a hectare of rice field. The Managing Director of…

Findings by the Cassava Monitoring Survey (CMS) have shown that over 60 per cent of farm households have adopted improved cassava varieties in the country. This was revealed at the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Abia State, by the Tanzania-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Director, Dr. Victor Manyong, on behalf of two…

Scientists and Agricultural experts in Nigeria are currently partnering on developing a sustainable cassava seed system to solve the problem of low productivity of the crop in the country. An agric expert, Dr Hemant Nitturkar, said this on Friday, at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, during the annual meeting of the project…

Following several queries and complaints from importers, exporters and other stakeholders regarding the issue ofpackaging materials for shipping cargoes, the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) said it has become necessary to reiterate its position, especially concerning Solid Wood Packaging Materials (SWPM) such as pallets, crates, boxes, dunnages, and, others in containerized cargoes imported into Nigeria…

Managing Director of Agrofood and Plastprintpack, Paul Marz, has expressed optimism that Nigeria would soon become self-sufficient and an export nation given its drive towards economic diversification. He said Nigeria was among the three largest importers of enabling technology with agricultural technology worth 50 million euro, as well as food processing and packaging technology worth…