Gombe state chapter of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) says farmers in the country can produce enough rice to feed Nigerians and to export.Kalagar Lubo, state secretary of RIFAN, said the rain in October will increase the yield of rice farmers to meet local need.Speaking with the PUNCH on Tuesday, he said the border closure is a positive development [...]
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Samson Aku, a 67-year-old farmer, has been charged to court by the Nigerian police for allegedly killing animals.The farmer, who resides at Friendship street, SCC road in Bwari, Abuja, was accused of killing some animals which belonged to Idris Wada, a herder.Wada, the chief prosecution witness, told a Dutse grade I area court in Abuja, on Wednesday, that he lost four [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo launched the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) in Adamawa state on Tuesday.The plan was developed by states and adopted by the national executive council (NEC) to address the farmer-herder crisis in the country.In a tweet, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo's media aide, said the launch of the NLTP should not be confused with RUGA, a plan which was suspended [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says young people are embracing agriculture because of technology. Osinbajo spoke during the presidential panel discussion session of the African Green Revolution Forum which held in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday.The theme of the forum was “Grow Digital: Leveraging Digital Transformation to Drive Sustainable Food Systems in Africa.''.President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, Edouard Ngirente, prime minister of Rwanda, and [...]
Gboyega Oyetola, governor of Osun state, has called on youth across the country to engage in agricultural activities rather than investing their time in cyber-crime.The governor said this during a facility tour of Bob Jones Farm Limited at Obadimu community, Orolu local government area of the state, on Monday.He said his administration is committed to revamping the agricultural sector in [...]
Uchechukwu Ogah, ministerial nominee from Abia state, says Nigeria has all it takes to feed the entire world.He said this while responding to questions from senators during the screening of ministerial nominees on Wednesday.President Muhammadu Buhari had submitted a list of 43 ministerial nominees, which was read at the senate plenary on Tuesday.Ogah, who was the first nominee to be [...]
Adamu Yusuf, a retired general, has alleged that "looted funds" denominated in US dollars and gold bars estimated to be worth N2 billion recovered through an informant suddenly disappeared without a trace in neither the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) nor ministry of finance.In an interview, Yusuf, who played active roles in the recovery of the funds believed to be [...]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has launched a multi-million euro fund which provides loans and equity investments for rural small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs), farmers' organisations, agricultural entrepreneurs and rural financial institutions across the globe.The agribusiness capital (ABC) fund launched during IFAD’s annual general council meeting in Rome, Italy, seeks to mobilise 200 million euros from investors [...]
Heineken Lokpobiri, minister of state for agriculture, says with the support of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the federal government has made "many millionaires" from agriculture.TheCable has not been able to verify the minister's claim.In a statement on Wednesday, George Oji, media aide of Lokpobiri, quoted the minister as making the claim when Lisandro Martin, IFAD regional director for [...]
Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, says as long as Nigerians are not running mechanised farms, any talk of progress in the agricultural sector is cheap.Dogara said this in an interview he granted to Daily Trust.The speaker said there is no way the country could feed its increasing population if its farmers are using crude implements [...]
BY JEREMIAH AGADAAs many sectors and industries within the Nigerian economy are slowly picking up pace after a turbulent era of recession, the bread sector, specifically the premium bread subsector has remained comatose. This baffling reality has continued to baffled economists and stakeholders who feel the reverse should have been the case considering that the bread industry is very active [...]
The Central Bank of Nigeria, on Monday, released the guidelines for its new credit policy, which is aimed at providing funds to the agriculture and manufacturing sector at a single digit interest rate.According to the guidelines, the maximum amount accessible by a party is N10 billion.The loans can be received from any bank which has contributory cash reserve ratio with [...]
BY AGBAJI CHINEDUAgribusiness can be seen as a science and practice of activities with backward and forward linkage related to production, processing, marketing and trade, distribution of raw and processed food, feed, fiber including the supply of inputs and service for these activities. In a developing country like Nigeria, agribusiness system with forward and backward linkages consists of the following [...]
Ndidi Nwuneli, founder of Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability and Professionalism (LEAP) Africa, has advised Nigerians to key into the vast opportunities that abound in agriculture.Nwuneli spoke during the weekend at “Exploit 2018,” a small and medium enterprise (SME) focused empowerment programme organised by Salem International Christian Center (SICC) in Lagos.According to her, Nigerians tend to “box themselves in one corner” when [...]
I was invited by the FRANCO/NIGERIAN Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Nigeria on Monday 26th of March 2018 to deliver the keynote address on a subject dear to my heart with subject-AGRICULTURE: KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA and the thrust of my treatise centered on a Policy framework that recognizes the need for a structured Agricultural value chain [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says the country has gone through “very turbulent” times in the past three years of his administration.He said this on Monday while inaugurating the National Food Security Council at the presidential villa, Abuja.“Nigeria’s journey in the last three years has been a very turbulent one,” he said, adding: “The country’s need for critical job-creating sectors which has been ignored [...]
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