Pastor (Otunba) Tola Faseru, Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Osun State is also the President of the African Cashew Alliance, ACA. In this interview with Sultan Bello he speaks about the policies and programmes aimed at boosting Cocoa production and attaining food sufficiency in the state. Excerpts: There was a report that tractors purchased…
Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and the wife of the Delta state Governor Deaconess Tobore Oborevwori have given about 40 female farmers in Delta State ₦10 million in grants to boost their agro businesses, while 1,200 indigent households received food items. The support was done under the sponsorship of the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) of…
Its a combination of beauty and farming as Farm Junction Foundation (FJF), a subsidiary of Farm Junction Limited, has announced the launch of the inaugural “Most Beautiful Farmer (MBF) Lagos” project. The project is a groundbreaking agricultural empowerment initiative designed to uplift and showcase Nigeria’s bountiful farming community. The program seeks to “make farming cool”…
The Senator representing Edo South Senatorial District, Neda Imasuen has distributed over 12,000 cocoa seedlings, 9,000 plantain suckers, herbicides and knapsack sprayers to farmers from across the seven Local Government Areas in his constituency. He also presented the farmers with financial support after a training on modern farming approaches. The exercise was coordinated by the…
Farmers in the federal capital territory, FCT were elated recently when they got ferliser from the authorities of the capital territory. The distribution exercise was handled by Federal Capital Territory Minister of State, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, who kicked off the distribution of approximately 900 metric tonnes of 30 trucks of assorted fertilisers to the farmers….
Farmers in the Abuja Municipal Council Area are in good season at the moment. Though it may not be a harvest season yet, what they have got is a sign that the next harvest season will be a time to cheer. The chairman, Hon. Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, has flagged off the distribution of 800 bags…
Smallholder farmers in Akwa Ibom State are celebrating a great support that they got from the government. And this time it is the federal government. 500, 000 of them are direct beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s programme known as “Project Earn from the soil”. The step by Abuja to domesticate the Women Economic Empowerment (WEE)…
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has empowered over 500 smallholder farmers in Edo State with seeds as part of efforts to boost tomato production.Samuel Owoicho, the State Director of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, distributed the seeds to members of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN). He mentioned that the initiative…
Some local government chairmen are rising up to the challenge of producing enough food to battle food insecurity in Nigeria. One of them is Wasiu Adesina, Chairman of Ikorodu Local Government Area of Lagos. He has spoken of his plan to partner with the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund to roll out a N30m soft…
The Oyo state government has approved N500m incentives to support young entrepreneurs in the state’s agricultural sector. The move is part of an ongoing effort to drive economic recovery and growth in the state known for its dominance in cassava and tobacco cultivation. This was disclosed by Acting Governor Bayo Lawal, during an executive council…
