Free Trade Area: Grain sector stakeholders especially farmers, have been urged to improve productivity and enhance grain standards to take advantage of the huge market opportunities presented by the Africa […]

Nigerians have been advised to see agriculture as a business and an avenue in realising the country’s full economic potential and not a vocation for the poor as erroneously perceived by the majority.
Mr Kofo A […]

Rising from its third quarterly meeting in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, the Nigeria Zero Hunger Forum (NZHF) has issued key recommendations and resolutions that should be quickly implemented towards the […]

How New Farmers Approach Agriculture As Business, The number of new entrants into farming is rising, despite the grim picture being painted by practitioners. However, young farmers are unperturbed because they […]

Russian businessman Sergei Mavrodi, whose MMM pyramid scheme deprived millions of Russians of their savings in the 1990s, has died of a heart attack, according to Russia media.

Reports said the 62-year-old was […]

he Federal Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are implementing an agricultural value chain development project focusing on rice and cassava in six states.

The 100 million […]

The Cross River State government has set up a rice lab called Rice City Laboratory in Calabar, the state capital.

The lab is set up for the multiplication of improved rice seedlings for farmers.

To this end, the […]

Irrigation farmers in Yobe State say the state can provide at least 40 per cent of Nigeria’s food needs, if the partnership between the Yobe government and MardiCorp, a Malaysian firm, is properly e […]

OVERNOR of Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele has said that the apex bank remains committed to development of agriculture and allied products in the country

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A total of N400 billion was spent on importation of raw sugar from 2013 to 2016 in Nigeria, Chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating the waiver given to certain companies on sugar […]

•It’s uncalled for, we remain neutral—Dan-Ali, Army •Fayose, Sani, Adebanjo, Rita Lori-Ogbebor, PDP, IPOB, others back Danjuma; I disagree, says Junaid Mohammed By Emeka Mamah, Kingsley Omonobi, Anayo Okoli, […]

The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FARD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at the […]