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The Deputy Ambassador, Netherlands Embassy, Lagos, Mr Michel Deelen, has said exportation of agricultural raw materials from Nigeria...

Poultry aggregators in Kaduna have lauded the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) for helping to revitalise the livestock sector and generate more income.

The Federal Government, through the Fadama Additional Financing (AF) II, has commenced a review of the food security and livelihood support...

The Federal Government has trained 100 young people on tractor operation and fabrication of agricultural equipment.

Action Aid Nigeria and the Youth Farm Initiative have bemoaned poor execution of budgets to the agricultural sector. 

More than one year after beneficiaries of the Fadama programme, an initiative of the Federal Government and the World Bank were validated and promised disbursement of fund for agricultural purposes, the FADAMA III AF authorities have again asked beneficiaries of the Graduate Unemployed Youths and Women Supports (GUYS) for another revalidation exercise across the participating…

To reposition Nigeria's cocoa industry, Eti-Oni, a cocoa producing community in Osun State, would host cocoa farmers and experts in its 2018 Cocoa Festival scheduled for next weekend. The Olooni of Eti-Oni, Oba Dokun Thompson, a cocoa exporter, told journalists in Lagos, that during the festival, farmers will be trained on hand pollination techniques, as…

Ten years after Lagos State Agriculture Youth Empowerment Scheme (Agric-YES) kicked off, the project has suffered serious hiccups, which have led to the two centres at Epe and Badagry being rendered inactive. While the Epe centre has been partially taken over by weed, especially the administrative building and green houses, the Badagry centre is still…

Chicken production is a serious business in Nigeria and all over the world. More people are becoming conscious of the need to consume lean rather than red meat for health reasons, and it is projected that the consumption will increase as the world population moves upward. The annual consumption of chickens in Nigeria is conservatively…

The Federal Government, through the Fadama Additional Financing (AF) II, has commenced a review of the food security and livelihood support project activities of the six north-east states of Nigeria ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency. The Federal Government had, in 2016, secured additional financing loans from the World Bank, specifically to address food scarcity,…

The Federal Government has disclosed plans to restrict importation of NPK fertiliser so as to encourage local blending plants to grow.   The Director, Department of Farm Support, Mr Jarrod Ohaire, gave the indication in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting over regulations implementation of the fertiliser control, noting that although there had not been an…

Head, Agro-Economy Desk, FEMI IBIROGBA; LAWRENCE NJOKU (Enugu) and AHMADU IDRIS (Birnin-Kebbi) write on the state of rural infrastructure, the government policy on gap closing and lack of political willpower to really diversify the economy. The Agricultural Promotion Policy (2016-2020) of the Mohammadu Buhari-led administration, especially on gaps closing between demand and supply of crops and livestock…