Kaduna State, Uba Sani, has distributed free fertiliser to no fewer than 100,000 smallholder farmers, while also unveiling a crop risk insurance scheme aimed at shielding farmers from climate-related losses. The twin initiatives were flagged off on Saturday at Murtala Square, Kaduna, in a move the governor described as part of his administration’s “farmer-first policy”…
Data by the National Bureau of Statistics NBS, on Friday, revealed that food inflation in Nigeria spiked to an all-time high of 37.92 percent in February. The food inflation rate on a year-on-year basis surged by 13.75 percent against the 24.35 percent recorded in February 2023. NBS said the surge in food inflation on a…
Livestock Feeds has achieved a remarkable turnaround, recording its highest profit in seven years. The agricultural firm bounced back with an after-tax profit of N1.75 billion, a significant improvement from its recurring losses in 2022 and 2023. This turnaround is a welcome development, especially considering the challenges faced by the livestock sub-sector. Femi Oke, chairman…
OGONI land, the area of Rivers State that has suffered the most on spillage of oil in the Niger Delta has suffered another incident. A fresh oil spill has hit the Bodo community in the Gokana Local Government Area of the State. The spill has destroyed farmlands. It was learnt that the oil spillage occurred…
Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party during the 2023 general election has a panacea to the crisis of hunger in the country. And he has asked the three arms of government to make use of the solution. According to him, the solution to the crisis is an increase in investment in agriculture. In…
The Federal Government has lamented that many Nigerians still use the bush and water bodies as their regular means of excreta disposal. The Minister of Environment, Mallam Balarabe Lawal, disclosed this during the commemoration of the 2024 World Toilet Day in Kano. The minister who was represented by the ministry’s Director of Pollution Control, Bahijja…
Farmers in Enugu State can begin to jump for joy. This is because one farm input they normally labour so hard to get is coming to their doorstep. That input is fertilizer. The state government recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the establishment of an integrated modular organic liquid fertilizer manufacturing plant in…
Farmers in Nigeria have pleaded with The Federal Government to address the thriving insecurity which is keeping them from returning to their farms in the planting season. Farmers who spoke to BUSHLINK said, this will further amplify the surging food insecurity across the country, which in turn will lead to lower supply against the country’s…
Recently the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, acting on behalf of the federal government, gave some inputs to farmers in the state. But some of the farmers are not happy, because some of these inputs are sub-standard. BUSHLINK had an interview with one of the farmers, Pa Folajimi Israel Akinsulure, who is a member of…
A senator has asked the federal government to institute an investigation into the delay in the distribution of the fertilisers it mandated the federal ministry of agriculture and food security to give to sub-national governments in the country. The call was made by Onyekachi Nwebonyi, Senator representing Ebonyi North senatorial district, who is also the…
