The federal government has been told that there is one major step it has to take for it to win the battle against food insecurity in the land. The step would be for the government to make massive investment in innovations that would boost the production of food in Nigeria. And in taking that step…
Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, has declared that achieving food security through agricultural development is among the topmost agendas of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s eight-point agenda. The minister who said this also affirmed that all the programmes on the agenda are connected to agriculture. Kyari made this known at the launch…
Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security has disclosed the partnership between the federal government and the Nigerian Agro Input Dealers Association (NAIDA) to enforce strict compliance of sales and distribution of certified and approved inputs in the country. Kyari said this in Abuja while receiving Kabir Umar Fara, President of NAIDA, and…
Fatima Aliyu, National Programme Coordinator of the Federal Government of Nigeria/Internatioal Fund for Agricultural Development, Value Chain Development Programme has distributed farming inputs to 619 farmers in Nasarawa State for the 2023/2024 dry season farming. The effort is part of the initiative of the federal government and IFAD VCDP to ensure food security in the…
Bob-Track Limited, an indigenous Nigerian firm based in Port Harcourt has unveiled a 120-horsepower tractor that is capable of performing multiple functions on the farm. The Chief Executive Officer of Bob-Track, Mr. Ibifiri Bobmanuel, said at the unveiling ceremony in Port Harcourt that the tractor was designed for African soils and farms and its work…
The annual dry season farming inputs distribution to out-grower farmers by WACOT Rice Limited has been inaugurated by Senator Abubakar Kyari, minister of Agriculture and Food Security. The ceremony was performed in Argungu, Kebbi State, which also hosts WACOT’s rice mill. The dry season farming inputs distribution was part of efforts to assist the small…
Barely two weeks after it cautioned residents of Lagos State against the consumption of plantain chips not produced under hygienic condition, the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency, LASCOPA has issued another warning. This time the agency has warned producers, entrepreneurs as well as other stakeholders in the food supply chain against peddling unregistered food products….
The federal government is working hard to defeat food insecurity in Nigeria. In this wise, it is not leaving any stone unturned. Part of the effort is to give hope to farmers who had found themselves at the mercy of natural disasters like floods. So, the government has sent the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA…
Farmers from five local government areas in Enugu State have joined their counterparts in Anambra, Benue, Ebonyi, Niger, Ogun and Taraba states to benefit from the federal government efforts at fighting food insecurity by promoting dry season farming in Nigeria. They were recently presented with farm implements and seedlings worth N40 million. The federal government…
By the time he started out as a farmer he was sufficiently interested and learned about the art of farming that it would be wrong to say he went in out of sheer necessity or because he had no options. Yes, he took up a job on a farm when it was becoming difficult to…
