The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 2024 report saw food prices record a significant rise that year. The report states that Food Price Index (FPI) increased from 117.6 points in January to 127.0 points in December. The FPI, which tracks monthly changes in international prices for key globally traded commodities reflected a 6.7%…
The growing rate of the cultivation of cannabis in Nigeria is becoming alarming. The more the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) bursts the illegal farms, the more daring the perpetrators get. The chairman of NDLEA, General Buba Marwa (retired) has, therefore, sought the collaboration of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS)…
The Project Coordination Office of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) said it is forging ahead with its mission to restore and revitalise communities impacted by hydrocarbon pollution, with a primary focus on the Ogoniland in Rivers State. It has, however, discovered that it may be a difficult task to accomplish, if foreign countries and…
The private sector is working hard to partner the government in the desperate effort to solve the nagging issue of food insecurity in the country. One of the foremost business leaders in the food sector, BUA Foods Plc, has said it will expand its wheat flour milling capacity to 2.5m MTpa. This was contained in…
In response to the insecurity situation in the Northeast region of Nigeria, where approximately 1.9 million people have reportedly been displaced and the inability of the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP camp to establish self-sustaining livelihoods, the International Institute of Intertropical Agriculture (IITA) together with the Japanese government have launched a new project to support self-reliance…
Farmers and community leaders in parts of the Cross River northern senatorial district have lamented excessive extortions by government agents and the terrible state of evacuation roads for farm produce. In the agro-based northern Cross Rivers including Yala, Ogoja, Obudu, Bekwarra, and Obanliku, farmers, in different interviews, said excessive extortion and a bad road network…
Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited has begun an agricultural extension services programme in which young university graduates are recruited to educate local farmers about cropping and how to utilise fertilisers to boost their yields. The programme, which is also known as Indorama Agronomists Programme targets more than 500 small-scale and subsistence farmers in Rivers State…
Butchers and consumers of various livestock, particularly cattle and goats, have expressed concern over the continuous rise in animal prices. Some butchers who spoke with newsmen in Abuja highlighted that the price increases are negatively impacting their businesses. They called on the government to find ways to reduce prices to boost consumers’ purchasing power. Mr….
Nigeria’s inability to tap into the livestock market was due to the absence of a robust system to track and monitor livestock movement and health status. This is according to Muritala Alade-Bamgbala the Chief Executive Officer of Protein Trail Technology, a government solution-focused firm with the aim of sanitising Nigeria’s meat value chain. He, therefore…
The farmers demographic in Nigeria shows that over 40 million Nigerians are in one form of farming technique or another. That is official, as it was released by the National Bureau of Statistics. This, therefore , puts to rest the controversy that has long surrounded agriculture data in the country. The Bureau is launching the…
