Farmers in the Niger Delta region should be jumping for joy. This is because the Ministry of Niger Delta Development is embarking on an agricultural development initiative that will further encourage farmers in the Niger Delta region. The management of the ministry, under the leadership of Engr. Abubakar Momoh, has announced the commencement of a…
No fewer than 49,000 farmers from three oil producing states smiled home recently with support to aid their trade. The farmers are from three states of Ondo, Edo and Delta. They got handsome financial support from The Partnership for Initiative in Niger Delta, The PIND. The body said the farmers and people in the small…
The support to ease the pain of ginger farmers who suffered losses as a result of the blight epidemic is increasing by the day. This time, the farmers in Kaduna State are getting claims from an insurance company for the tragedy. The firm, Leadway Assurance Company Limited, in partnership withHeifer Project International and Pula Advisors,…
The leaders of a farmers group and a cooperative society in Enugu state, Obimo Farmers Association and Izunwanne Obimo Multi Purpose Cooperative Society have called on the Governor Peter Mbah to come to the aid of Obimo Community in Nsukka local Government Area of Enugu state. The farmers want the government to provide them with…
The Nigerian Senate has rejected fresh moves to create grazing routes for cattle herders in the country. The resolution was passed by the lawmakers, as they observed a minute silence in honour of those who were killed in Omala LGA of Kogi State. They also urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to provide the…
Chinedu Ogah, a member representing Ikwo/Ezza South Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives has distributed 200 bags of 25kg rice seeds and shared N70 million to farmers in the constituency. The lawmaker, who described agriculture as a solution to the hunger and general hardship ravaging the country, urged people to go into farming…
Nigerian government officials may not have to travel far to get farm implements, thus wasting the meagre foreign exchange at her disposal and unnecessarily lengthen the time needed to provide inputs for the growth of agriculture in the country. This hope was raised with the disclosure by Nigeria’s vehicle manufacturer, Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Company Ltd…
The Benue State Governor, Fr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia, has said the state would embrace the gesture of any willing person or organisation that wants to invest in thw agriculture there. The governor spoke when he received the Member, House of Lords, United Kingdom, Baroness Sandip Verma, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Government…
Globally, attention is being drawn to not only food for the hungry people of the world but how to ensure that they eat right. This has promoted efforts to focus on the nutritional aspect of care for the poor. Issues of nutrition and food security which affects every part of Nigeria, have compelled stakeholders to…
The Enugu State government has urged all residents to go back to the farm and cultivate any available space within their homes. The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro Industrialisation, Mr. Patrick Ubru, made the appeal while flagging off the “Back-to-Farm” project of the Amurri Ancient Kingdom in Nkanu West Local Government Area. Mr. Ubru…
