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High lending interest rates by commercial banks in Nigeria and warped reputation of the insurance sector operators about non-payment...

As part of solutions to the challenges in agriculture, and to fast-track agro-economic development and diversify sustainably, a dedicated trust fund to finance agricultural...

Agro Park Development Company, a value addition agro-allied company based in Lagos and Ogun states, is set to inaugurate an integrated agro-processing industrial...

A professor of Biotechnology at Covenant University, Professor Olawole Obembe, has asserted that plant biotechnology offers Africa and the world significant opportunities...

The Nigerian Agricultural Mechanisation and Equipment Leasing (NAMEL) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mantrac Nigeria to open up an additional...

Professor of Agricultural Extension at Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Dr Oji Onu Ekumankama has said that agricultural extension workers...

The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has received international accreditation for four of its programmes run by Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Development and Sustainable Environment (CEADESE), by Agency for Quality Assurance System (AQAS). The programmes accredited, the first of its kind in any public university in Nigeria, which FUNAAB has been issued with…

Over 120 people have been trained on mushroom & ginger cultivation and value chains development in Delta State.     The training and empowerment facilitated by a legislator representing Ndokwa/Ukwani Federal Constituency, Hon. Ossai Nicholas Ossai was specifically organised for youths and women from the three Local Government Areas Ukwani, Ndokwa West, and Udokwa East…

The Edo State Government has partnered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on a synergy between the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) and the state’s Agripreneur initiative. Special Adviser to the State Governor on Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security Programme, Joe Okojie disclosed this during a one-day sensitisation programme for farmers in Owan West and Ovia…

The Lagos State Government has promised to use the Agro-processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project to increase productivity, processing and marketing of agric value chain in the state. Commissioner for Agriculture, Oluwatoyin Suarau, disclosed this during the APPEALS Project Advocacy/Interactive Session held at the Airport Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. APPEALS is a comprehensive…

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu has been commended for his interest in agriculture, in both human capital and general development of the state. This was the submission of a group, The Campaign Concourse, in a statement signed by Marcus Opeyemi Amudipe, who disclosed that: “Agriculture has been a strong focal point for the Rotimi…

Agricultural scientists and environmentalists have called on the government, farmers’ associations and non-governmental organisations to effectively control the use of herbicides and other dangerous agro-chemicals....