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Food prices soar despite global prices hitting 7 year…
Food prices in Nigeria have been on upward trajectory despite the fall in global prices to almost a seven-year low…
Dangote to create 10,000 jobs with rice outgrowers’…
In line with the Federal Government move to diversify the economy away from oil through agriculture and ensure food…
FG moves to boost food security in Nigeria
A National Agricultural Resilience Framework has been put in place by the Federal Government to adapt agricultural…
Oyo, Osun refocus on agriculture to create wealth
Having discovered key economic areas of comparative advantages in the face of dwindling revenue allocation and less…
Agriculture can lead the way to rescuing Nigeria’s…
The Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (PHCCIMA) has identified agriculture as…
Emulate Kano in agric, Ogbeh tells governors
Audu Ogbeh, minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has appealed to governors to emulate Kano State in its…
Cross River to expand cocoa farmland, boost output
Cross River State plans to expand land under cocoa cultivation by a third in the current season and…
Anambra, ABX, others begin $5.2bn agro-allied export to…
Anambra State government and the partner, ABX World, a Nigeria-based courier/cargo company, in collaboration with…
FG to step up privatisation of BoA
The Federal Government has stepped up the privatisation of the Bank of Agriculture (BoA), as part of the new…
National Council meeting on agriculture opens in Kano
Meeting of the National Council on Agriculture has opened in the commercial city of Kano, with a call by the…
‘Indigenous wheat growers have capacity to meet local…
Salim Saleh Mohammed, national president, Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria, in an interview with BusinessDay…
Cassava can generate N8.5trn yearly -NCGA president
Segun Adewumi, national president of Nigeria Cassava Growers Association (NCGA), has called on the government at…