….AS THE STATE ACQUIRES 120 TRUCKS OF GRAINS TO COMPLEMENT FEDERAL INITIATIVE In efforts to cushion food insecurity across the country, President Bola Tinubu next week will flag off the distribution of the 42,000 metric tonnes of assorted grains released from the National Strategic Reserves across the country. The president will also commission the…
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Climate Change Specialist, Ms. Nifesimi Ogunkua, on Monday, revealed plans to restore 18,000 hectares of degraded land in Cross River and Ondo states for sustainable cocoa and oil palm cultivation, to attract $200 million in investments to the value chain in Nigeria. Ogunkua disclosed this during a four-day FAO…
The National Coordinator of the Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP), Engr Aminu Bodinga Mohammed has identified the critical role of rural access roads in accelerating the achievement of food security. Mohammed made the statement during the project’s 7th Joint World Bank and French Development Agency Implementation Support Mission in Abuja. He highlighted the…
When majority of nigerians go to parties, the food they love to request for is jollof rice. Now, either at home or at such social function, do people bother to ask the question about the cost of a plate of their favourite delicacy? Do you feel like you want to do that right away? 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…
QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has appealed for peace, recognition of the right to food, and reform of multilateral institutions as cardinal imperatives. He said this during the G20 Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting held recently in Brazil. The Meeting was the first major event of Brazils…
The hope that food production will increase in 2024, giving impetus to the goal of targeting zero hunger in the near future, appears to be coming to reality by the day. This is because the decision by the federal government to undertake massive production of food items is being keyed into by the state governments,…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published a study identifying 17 pathogens that frequently cause disease in communities and require urgent vaccine development. A pathogen is a living thing that causes disease in a host, such as a human. The study, published in eBioMedicine journal and announced on the WHO website on Tuesday, is the…
Pa Folajimi Israel Akinsulure is from Idanre town, in Idanre local government area of Ondo State. He attended Saint George’s Primary School, Idale, Idanre, after which he proceeded to the Anglican Modern School also in Idale, where he spent just one year. during his first of the three-year course at the Mordern school he applied…
A comprehensive agro-environmental project which aims to tackle the challenges of climate change, environmental degradation, and food insecurity across Niger state has been launched by the Governor Umaru Bago. The project involves the reclamation of 100 hectares of land, empowerment of 200 youth and women, distribution of 10 tractors, and drilling of 100 boreholes under…
