DISTRIBUTES OKRO, PEPPER, WATERMELON SEEDS Wife of the Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, has launched the organic garden competition in Anambra secondary schools to encourage children to learn more about food production and farming. Soludo, while addressing Healthy Living teacher ambassadors in Awka, said the organic garden competition would help teach children the importance…
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…
The minister of state, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Aliyu Abdullahi, says Nigerians consumed an estimated 1.6 billion litres of milk and its products annually. Mr. Abdullahi, who stated this at a news conference in Abuja, to mark the 2024 World Milk Day, said that 60 per cent of the products are imported….
The World Bank has revealed plans to disburse $500m as loan to enhance rural road infrastructure and agricultural marketing in Nigeria. The financial institution said the fund requested was contained in the final draft of the Resettlement Policy Framework for the Nigeria Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project Scale-UP (RAAMP-SU) under the Federal Ministry of…
Visitors to Egypt can be rest assured that they will not suffer any bout of malaria in the north African country any longer. This follows the certificate of fitness from the World Health Organisation, WHO that Egypt is now malaria-free. The country can celebrate because it has been weaned from a battle of 100 years,…
The division in Nigeria widens with the insistence of the passage of the bill seeking to nullify open grazing in the country. While farmers, seeing advantage of a proposed law in this direction, herders insist that such proponents should perish the thought. The legislation, titled “A Bill for an Act to Establish the National Animal…
Hajia Salamatu Garba, Executive Director, Women Farmers Advancement Network, WOFAN has disclosed her association’s move to present Draft Agricultural Extension Revitalization Bill to the Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture due to the raging food crises in the country. The bill is basically to ensure sustainability of food security across the country, hence agricultural extension system…
In a bid to revitalise Nigeria’s agricultural sector, the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) has kicked off the 2025 Boot Camp for Youths on Plant Variety Protection. This innovative program is designed to equip young Nigerians with the knowledge and skills necessary to drive meaningful change in the agricultural sector. The program, which began in…
The federal government is about to get a fresh loan from the World Bank. The loan is targeted at three sectors, including the agricultural sector. The other areas are health, and infrastructure sectors. The loan is of the value of of $1.5bn. The loan set to be approved on Thursday September 26, 2024 will be…
