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New Crop Varieties For Nigerian Farmers
Image source deephaven The Federal Government has approved the release of 17 new high yield crop varieties to Nigerian farmers to enhance food production according to the National Varieties Release...
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Nigeria Spends $20b On Food Importation Yearly
Minister Promises To Cut Agric Interest Rate THE Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has lamented the huge expenses Nigerians make on importing food into the country,...
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Ofada Rice: High In Demand, Short In Supply
Pains Of Trading Truly Indigenous Produce In Nigerian dining tables, Ofada rice has grown in culinary prominence over the years, but far beyond the shores of the nation, in US, Canada and the UK, the...
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World Bank Programme Move To Boost Fish Production In Nigeria
Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State test-driving one of the machines at the commissioning of the new bulldozers purchased by the State Government for rice production in the state in Abakaliki last...
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Seed Council On Surveillance Against Spurious Dealers, Fakes
Director-General, NASC, Dr. Philip Ojo (left) with Oyo zone Chairman, WAIDA, Mr. Adenitan Solomon at the Southwest sensitisation tour of seed markets in Ogunpa area of Ibadan last week.On the heels of...
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Cassava Agronomy Initiative To Change Cassava Farmers’ Economy
PHOTO: acrowinghen.comThe African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project kicks-off today with plans to improve the livelihoods and incomes of cassava farmers in Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda,...
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Ogbeh Tasks Agric Researchers On Increasing Food Production
Audu Ogbeh • Resolve Labour Issues, Not Lock Outs The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has said the challenge of feeding the nation’s population with a higher growth rate...
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Call On Banning Importation Of Agric-Based Raw Materials
• Food Companies Say Govt Must Act Now TO encourage local raw material-based food industries and create more employment opportunities, the Managing Director of Food, Agro and Allied Industries...
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Bayelsa Rice Farmers Seek Partners To Exploit Potentials
PHOTO: www.channelstv.com Apparently frustrated by lack of funding and government slow approach to farming in the state, the Bayelsa state chapter of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, RFAN, is...
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Europe opens markets to more Nigerian agricultural products
agriculture Ms Paulette Trier, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian-Belgian Commercial Information and Documentation, on Monday said that European Countries had concluded plans to open their markets to...
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Scrapping of cocoa board, nigeria’s greatest undoing — Aikpokpodion
Aikpokpodion • Nigeria Loses Millions Of Dollars To Government officials Nigeria’s cocoa beans have been under performing in the export market and both the farmer and nation are shortchanged. From the...
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Cocoa economy: Challenges of getting agricultural diversification right
Premium cocoa quality control at CRP, Oda, Ondo state Cocoa, the agricultural gold in the pod, continues to solve the substantial part of the economic challenges of nations that have committed...
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Renaissance: Ondo explores ways to boost Cocoa Production
Ondo Chocolate Production Plant To Begin April 2016 Goaded by frantic moves to save the state from the perpetual dependence on oil, Ondo State government has aligned with the Federal Government...
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Abia Cocoa Farms in urgent need for revival, youth participation
Abia State became a major player in Cocoa production during the regime of former State governor, Theodore Orji, now the Senator for Abia Central, during which it placed eighth, among the major...
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Cocoa Farmers in Cross River lament low price, export opportunities
Cross River State cocoa farmers have decried poor pricing, lack of herbicides, processing plant, challenges with export and funding as their major challenges in the cocoa business. Mainly, cocoa is...
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Traders commission rice mill, seek more investment
A typical rice mill Nigerian traders, under the auspices of National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTS), have charged all arms of government and foreign investors to invest more in local rice...
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Do it Afraid entrepreneurship workshop reveals of future agriculture in Nigeria
Ms. Angel Adelaja, founder of Fresh Direct, We Farm Africa, and former Senior Special Adviser to the President on Wealth creation, Mrs Olusola Sowemimo, founder Ope Farms, Mr. Adeniji Kolawole, Group...
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Kano, Kebbi take lead in wheat production efforts
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, (third left), Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State and Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbu State (fifth left) being taken through the wheat...
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Group calls on women, youths to invest in agriculture
Former governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has urged women and youths to invest in agriculture. He stated this at SME 100 and Rubies Vocational School conference in Lagos. Uduaghan...
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College trains, empowers youths in Catfish production, processing
Fish feed for the participants awaiting distribution Ramping up support for diversifying the economy, reducing food import bills, creating employment opportunities and lubricating the economy, the...
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