Coca-Cola Nigeria, with its parent company partner to promote sustainable packaging and reduce plastic waste as part of its commitment to environmental sustainability. The partnership’s vision not only seeks to enhance recycling infrastructure but also to innovate and redesign packaging to ensure it is 100% recyclable. It will be recalled that “World Without Waste” initiative…
The federal government keeps getting support from local and international organisations on its efforts to out an end to shortages of food in the country, thus raising hopes that the efforts will pay off soon. The latest avowal in this direction is the pledge by the international Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA to intensify efforts…
Dr. Alex Otti of Abia State has received commendation for the efforts of his administration to promote agriculture in the state in its first one year in office. The commendation was given by Dr. Philips Nto, a former Commissioner for Finance and Michael Okpara University of Agriculture’s Director of Agribusiness Incubation Centre , Umudike. Dr….
The government has identified two major factors responsible for the failure of efforts at bringing down the prices of food items in the country. The factors were disclosed by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. FCCPC. The Commission said it discovered the factors during its recent fact-finding research. It said that traders in major…
Dikko Radda, Katsina State Governor marks his first anniversary in office in a unique way. He chose the time to commence the sale of fertilisers to farmers at subsidised rates. The exercise will see farmers participating in the sale of 400, 000 bags of fertilisers for 2024 cropping season. That was not the only thing…
Wale Edun, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy has disclosed that the federal government has set aside N200 billion to tackle food insecurity in the country, noting that the amount would help bring down food prices and inflation. Edun said that with 30 per cent of the world affected by the problem…
The 2024 inaugural World Agritourism Day celebration themed “Food Security for All” was recently celebrated in Abuja. At the event, Dr. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security said that agritourism would generate foreign exchange and boost food production in Nigeria. The minister also believes that the development of agritourism would…
The federal government, in line with the promise to encourage massive production of food in Nigeria, has invested much more than before in Agriculture. Towards this end it has spent N309 billion in the last one year to cultivate 500,000 hectares of farmlands in the different states in the country. This was disclosed in Abuja…
Insecurity and incessant attacks on company facilities were a major clog in the progress wheel in rubber plantation farming in 2023. This is according to Graham Hefer, the Managing Director of Okomu Oil Palm Plc, who made this disclosure in an interview. He called on the Federal Government and Edo State Government to help the…
The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has advocated progressive ranching laws in the Southeast and other parts of Nigeria to permanently address the constant farmers herders crisis. The acting national youth leader of Ohanaeze, Mazi Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu, made the call during a briefing at the just-concluded Igbo Youth…
