AFAN
20 Dec
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has distributed over 1,000 bags of fertiliser to farmers across seven local councils in Edo South, to boost food production.
17 Dec
The aggressive monetary and fiscal measures taken to check headline inflation appear to be slow in taming inflation as the consumer price index rose to 34.6 per cent in November, setting a new multi-decade high and suggesting that the war against price crisis is far from being won.
19 Aug
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Yobe Chapter, has warned its members against selling agriculture empowerment equipment, donated by the state government. READ ALSO:Prices of perishable items crash in Yobe, Borno, Adamawa Alhaji Usman Ngari, the state AFAN chairman, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
14 Aug
Chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Benue chapter, Saaku Aondongu has lamented the absence of rains in most parts of the state at the height of the cropping season.
4 Jun
Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Production Services and Rural Development, Saliu Mustapha, at the weekend, flagged off distribution of farm tools worth over N200 million to planters in Kwara State.
21 Feb
Determined to make Nigeria a major food processing hub in Africa, plans are currently underway to establish a 360 agro-products processing complex in Onicha-Ugbo in Delta State.
18 Feb
Irrespective of the Federal Government’s current rush to address the food crisis facing the country, there are indications that prices of the commodities may not go down anytime soon, except certain indices responsible for the hike in food prices are tackled headlong.
12 Feb
Nigeria's food inflation has jumped consistently in the past five years despite intervention in the agriculture sector, especially through the N1.08 trillion Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), with composite food prices jumping by about 170 per cent in the past five years.
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