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Notore’s farm inputs production, innovative distribution…
The efforts of Notore, an agricultural inputs production firm in bringing farm inputs that had eluded rural farmers…
Ogun moves against illegal tree felling
Faced by multiple challenges of illegal tree felling, the Ogun State government has taken decisive measures against…
FUNAAB wins $18.8m on cassava programme from Bill and…
The Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has won a grant of USD18.8 million from the Bill and…
Using polythene sheets – cheaper way of weed…
Virtually every farmer incurs huge cost on weed control and prevention as a result of using chemicals called…
Private firm to provide 15,000 jobs through farming in…
Festrust Conglomerate, a private firm, has indicated interest to establish a farm covering 100 hectares of land at…
‘De-risking agric sector influences positive bank…
The current positive attitude of some banks towards lending in the agricultural sector has been linked to the…
AFAN warns government on fake farmers cornering agric…
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Enugu State chapter, has warned that a lot of people who play along…
Generating 1m jobs from domestic wheat production
Today, Nigeria’s wheat import is about 4 million metric tons per annum and the import is estimated to grow at an…
University fires students’ interest in agribusiness
Many Nigerian youths are lost in careers that are neither profitable to them nor the economy, so I invite them to…
Implications of banks’ insistence on collateral for…
Despite the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) launched by the Central…
Reps summon Okonjo-Iweala, Aganga, Adesina over rice…
The House of Repre¬sentatives’ Commit¬tee on Customs has summoned the trio of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, co¬ordinating…
International firm aims to reduce food wastage through…
Large quantities of food get wasted every year due to poor packaging, so there is great demand for food packaging…