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,…
If the plans of Governor Ademola ADELEKE sails through, then in no distant future Osun State will lead other states in Nigeria in the production of cocoa. He said plans had reached an advance stage to collaborate with a Chinese company towards achieving this objective. Adeleke gave the assurance while receiving a Chinese team that…
Ginger farmers who suffered losses as a result of the blight epidemic last March would have every cause to smile, as they approach a new planting season. This follows the support from the federal government, which is to be complemented by the Kaduna State government. To start with, under the aegis of the National Agricultural…
As it is addressing the nagging problem of food insecurity, the administration of President Bola Tinubu is also working to battle the problem of desertification in the northern part of the country. This disclosure was made by a state official in Kebbi State. The official, Musa Muhammad Tungulawa, who is the commissioner for environmental and…
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…
Concerned about the health of Nigerians, the federal government has warned Nigerians to desist from patronising private and unregistered abattoir and meat shops. The warning came from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) on Thursday. The action followed the outcome of an investigation into the incident of food poisoning at the Mandate…
