Madam Ademusire Comfort Olufemi produces palm oil. At her production factory in Ilu-Titun Osooro town, Ondo State, she commands a lot of respect and attention. Yet, she does not grow palm trees.what she does is to lease palm plantations from which she would harvest to get materials for her factory. It is,therefore, not surprising that…
The National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) says it is repositioning school agriculture as a tool for skills acquisition, food security, and youth empowerment. Executive Secretary of NSSEC, Dr Iyela Ajayi,stated this on Monday in Abuja at a one-day sensitisation and strategy workshop for agricultural science officers under the “Grow What You Eat” initiative. Ajayi…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday commissioned 2,000 tractors for nationwide deployment under the Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme. The commissioning, which held at the National Agricultural Seeds Council, Sheda, along the Abuja–Lokoja Expressway, marks what the President described as the beginning of Nigeria’s “agricultural renaissance”. It is a strategic effort to boost food production,…
The Lagos State Government has ordered the immediate closure of the Oko-Oba Abattoir in the Agege area of the state. The closure followed reports of unsanitary practices, poor waste management, and unhygienic meat processing. The closure was ordered on Thursday by the Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, following an extensive inspection…
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and other Relevant Stakeholders have strategized to review agricultural laws to promote sustainable agricultural practices, empower farmers, and enhance food security Speaking during the workshop in Abuja, on Monday, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi stated that the workshop was…
Staff of the ministry of agriculture and food security would not succumb to criticism by outsiders over the decision to fast for three days. They said the decision was informed by the experience of the staff in recent time. In a bold move to address the three-day fasting directive that faced widespread criticism, the Federal…
There is an immediate concern for the government of Lagos state. It is the challenge that climate change brings to people of the state, which poses danger to their health and the infrastructure provided to make life easy for them. That was stated by the State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab….
There is an attempt to improve on the capacity of stakeholders in the livestock value chain in Nigeria. This is evident in the collaboration between the Federal Government and the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL). The initiative is aimed to undertake a Feedlot Management Training Programme. The gains of the initiative…
Cocoa farmers in Nigeria will soon have a high profile member in their midst. He is no other person than the number two citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Vice-President Kashim Shettima. He told a delegation of the World Cocoa Foundation, WCF that visited him in his office at the Aso Villa in Abuja….
Their number is over 70 percent of the farmers in the state but farmers in Cross River state in the South South geopolitical zone of Nigeria, yet they are hardly reckoned with. To start with, for them to get farmland for the cultivation of farms they have to depend on the men. The same men…
