Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State has launched a strategic action plan for the State, designed to ensure food security, and fight poverty and malnutrition, especially among children and women. In doing this it has decided to collaborate with the relevant stakeholders.The Governor, who stated this in Calabar in the company of Peter Odey,…
Senator Abubakar Kyari, minister of agriculture and food security is asking stakeholders in the agriculture and food chain to collaborate with the government in the provision of seedlings for the major food crops that are needed to solve the challenge of food production in the country. He made the call at the high-level stakeholders’ forum…
The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has expressed the confidence that farmers in the state can provide the food needs of the country. The governor said this recently while inaugurating the Isuikwuato Agriculture Revolution Program, ISAREP, and Flag off of the 2024 Isuikwuato Planting Season held at Isuikwuato LGA headquarters. However, he said…
There is a good development in the agriculture sector in Ebonyi State. It is to the effect that farmers in the state will no longer be in want of fertilizer for their farms. Then they will also continue to get that farm input at an affordable rate. That is what the new administration in…
As part of efforts to ensure availability of staple food in Nigeria amidst the dwindling global resources and food shortages, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has distributed agricultural inputs to farmers in three states. The states are Abia state, in the Southeast zone, Kebbi and Yobe states, both in Northwest geo-political zone…
The management of TechnoServe Nigeria is exploring a potential collaboration with the federal government to enhance food and nutrition security in the country. This was made known during a visit to the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja. Technoserve undertakes a business approach involved in fighting poverty and empowering farmers and small business…
For Alhaji Mudashiru Nurudeen Emiloju, it has become a yearly routine exercise to empower and uplift the lives of Iwo residents and cushion the effect of economic hardship in the country. Emiloju, a Special Adviser to the Osun State Governor on Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA), had, some years ago, launched a multi-million naira…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Olayemi Cardoso on Wednesday, delivered fertilizers amounting to over N100bn to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security FMA&FS. The gesture is part of efforts to boost food security in Nigeria. Cardoso said farmers will receive over 2.15 million bags of fertilisers, noting that one…
The Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf on Monday urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to consider reopening the country’s borders for importation of foodstuffs as an immediate measure to alleviate food scarcity, especially during Ramadan. Yusuf’s appeal was made through the Controller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Bashir Adeniyi who visited the governor over the initiative…
The Nigeria Governors Forum NGF and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security FMA&FS are advocating for enhanced crop production to tackle food scarcity across the country. The Acting Head of Media, Halimah Salihu Ahmed, on Sunday, stated that the governors were dedicated to alleviating the pain and suffering of citizens nationwide, due to…
