Farmers and agronomists in Nigeria have condemned lopsided and frivolous interventions in the agricultural sector while they also demand that such interventions should be channeled towards value chain development.

• Farmers commend border policy, interventions Stakeholders in agriculture and allied industries have pinpointed weak financing, the comatose state of the Bank of Agriculture (BoA) and dwindling farm labour as factors dragging the sector down. Inability of the government to restructure the bank for coordinated, structured and country-wide sustainable medium to long-term agricultural credit facilities…

While commending the past and recent initiatives, agricultural and industrial stakeholders have called on the Federal Government, through the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)...

Kebbi State chapter of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in collaboration with Dantata Company, has registered 7,000 groundnuts farmers in Kebbi.

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) has commended the Federal Government on the improvement recorded in some major agricultural value chains in 2019.

To maximise the potential benefits of the current government policies of low tolerance for food importation and effective control of the porous borders, stakeholders are brainstorming to identifying ways to effectively emplace the country as a food basket of Africa.

Some Nigerians have commended the Federal Government for closing porous borders linking the Republic of Benin, Niger Republic and the country, saying such effort had sent signals to the two countries to steer clear of smuggling activities that have affected agricultural production and other industries.

Scientists have harped on cattle genetic improvement through cross-breeding for higher milk yield just as agricultural professionals, associations of farmers...

Nigerians from all walks of life have called on the Federal Government and the state counterparts to expedite actions to make local government councils autonomous...

A poultry farmer in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, Mr Joseph Babalola, was feeding his 4,000 ISA-brown laying birds with gusto, assisted by two male attendants...

Farmers in Oyo State have called on the government to be proactive and do the needful for effective implementation of agricultural programmes and policies for the benefit...

The Kano State government has supported the state chapter of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) with N132 million to enable it take delivery of the 44 tractors it ordered recently from India. The state AFAN chairman, Alhaji Faruk Rabi’u, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Kano…