Category: Agriculture
Oyo seeks partnership with IITA to ensure food security
Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has expressed the readiness of his administration to collaborate with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture...
ICPC grills agric ministry officials over massive fraud
About five senior officials in the Department of Farm Inputs Supports Services of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development were arrested by...
Why beans, peanut, ginger and seven other Nigeria food exports were rejected in UK-NAFDAC
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has given reasons why 10 goods from Nigeria were rejected abroad. The agency said this...
How herdsmen destroyed farmland worth N100m in Delta
A community leader on Delta state, Sunday Neme has disclosed how marauding herdsmen destroyed about 300 farmlands valued at N100 millions in Obetim-Uno community,...
N50b each for cultivation of cassava, wheat, rice, maize- Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu has said that N50b each will be spent to cultivate 150,000 hectares of rice and maize. This is part of his nationwide broadcast on Monday....
Samson’: Man kills lion with bare hands
A reincarnation of the ‘strongman’ of Old Testament in the Bible, Samson, has been discovered in Ajio, Shangev ya, Kwande Local Government Area of Benue...
Here comes Eko Rice
….As Sanwo-Olu launches N5b forward contracts for paddy supplies • Commodities Exchange lists, trades Lagos’ rice at N33,000 per 50kg bag • State projects...
Upgrade your skill to increase yield and enhance productivity – VC charges farmers
Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University, Prof. Clement Adebooye, has called on farmers especially youths to embrace modern farming techniques towards high...
Sterling Bank promotes renewable energy-owered a look agriculture with Fresh AATIF Fund
Nigeria’s leading financial institution, Sterling Bank, in conjunction with the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF), is set to promote...
Sterling One Foundation launches new project for women farmers in flood-affected areas
As part of relief interventions following the devastating nationwide floods in Nigeria, the Sterling One Foundation has launched Project Ladder, in partnership with...
