At the ongoing 2024 US-Africa Business Summit in Dallas, United State of America, Abiodun Abayomi Oyebanji, governor, Ekiti State Governor and Niyi John Olajide, Chairman of Cavista Holdings, (owners of Agbeyewa Farms Limited) signed multi-billion Naira Memorandum of Understanding to establish a state-of-the-art cassava farm of over 100,000 hectares in the State. Olajide Chairman of…
The Ogun State government through its ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has said that the government is working round the clock to make farm produce available at the markets, reiterating its commitment to mechanised agriculture to ensure food security in the state. Hon. Bolu Owotomo, Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security said this during…
Many borderline communities in Obanliku and Obudu LGAs in the Northern Senatorial District of Cross River State have lamented the continual influxes of refugees from Cameroon, as well as incessant encroachments on their farmlands by people from Benue State. They expressed the worry during a town hall meeting attended by key stakeholders including paramount rulers,…
Muyideen Abiodun Abdulazeez is not the typical meat seller. He has a private abattoir that is also uniquely different from what you see about town. He is humble, demonstrates deep knowledge of what he is doing and seals that with a high degree of hygiene. Yet, the road to the present was not a bed…
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) at the weekend organized an intensive training for 100 cashew farmers in Imo State, being one of the cashew producing States, which accounts for over 1,000 metric tonnes of the produce annually. That sector has generated an annual income of N41.27 billion for the country from exports. The programme,…
A total of 500 Anambra farmers will benefit from the Co-operative Farmers Scheme sponsored by John Bosco Onunkwo Foundation, a private initiative. The scheme, which is distributing fifty seed yams to farmers across the twenty-one local government areas of Anambra state, has commenced the first phase of the programme in Aguata local government area.According to…
The 1,415 cocoa farmers asked to vacate the lands earlier allocated to them have defeated Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State in the first round of the case in the court. They had approached the high court sitting in Effraya, Etung Local Government Area of the state to ask for protection from the government,…
An Enugu-born commercial farmer, Ahmad Sani Ibrahim, formerly known as Friday Nnaji, has petitioned the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 13, raising the alarm over alleged criminal defamation and attempts by some persons to misrepresent his farming partnership with the Enugu State Government. He is pleading with the law enforcement agency to investigate the matter…
The Enugu State Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro-industrialisation, Mr Patrick Ubru, says only registered farmers will procure subsidised farm inputs from the state government. Ubru disclosed this while speaking in Enugu. He said the office was open for farmers in the state to register, especially as the state was preparing for pre-farming training to launch…
Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of President Bola Tinubu, has launched the Renewed Hope Initiative-Women Agricultural Support Programme, RHI-WASP in four of the six geo-political zones of the country. The zones are the Southwest, the Northcentral, the Northeast, the Northwest. The programme is part of efforts to compliment the steps being taken by her husband to…
