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Kwara farmers receive funding to strengthen agribusiness
PHOTO: www.worldbank.org The Federal Government may have begun the experimentation of rural empowerment policy that would turn subsistence farmers into commercial ones in Nigeria. The development is to...
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More Nigerians benefit from IFAD support projects
Ides de Willebois.PHOTOS:flickr.com The International Fund for Agricultural Development said yesterday that about 9.2 million out of the 14. 2 million Nigerians targeted have benefitted from its...
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NRCRI research farms devastated by grazing cattle
PHOTO: ajanlafarm.com As grazing cattle reared by Fulani herdsmen continue to eat up crops in different parts of the country, experimental and research farms owned by National Root Crops Research...
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BATNF’s irrigation facility lifts badagry vegetable farmers
Vegetable farmers in the Badagry area of Lagos, especially in Ajara are having their bread buttered on both sides, as the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) has tilted some factors of...
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Kano initiates fair price platform for tomato farmers
Kano State government has inaugurated Innovation Platform of Tomato Production with the tomato farmers for proper facilitation between Dangote Tomato Processing company and the farmers towards...
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FG to establish agric extension offices in LGAs, says Ogbeh
Audu Ogbeh, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh says the Federal Government will establish one agricultural extension...
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Rice farmers to get N1bn from Ebonyi govt
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, right, Secretary to Ebonyi State Government, Prof. Bernard Odoh and Head of Service, Dr. Chamberlain Nwele, at a special stakeholders summit on Ebonyi Rice...
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Stakeholders tasked on rebuilding North East agriculture
PHOTO: worldagroforestry.org As AgroNigeria opens Zaria branch As the dust of the military spat between the insurgents and Federal Government gradually begins to settle, the toll it has taken on...
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Group to improve Africa’s chicken production
The African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) Project has said it is committed to improving productivity and increase profit in smallholder chicken production in sub-Saharan Africa, especially since past...
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Ogun set for third investors’ forum
Govt targets 200,000Ha for commercial investors Still basking in the euphoria of successes recorded in the last two editions, Ogun State is set to hold the 2016 Investors’ Forum scheduled for Tuesday,...
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Ogbeh tasks NIPR on marketing agro-based information
Audu Ogbeh, Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh (OFR) has urged the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) to use the power of...
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Ogun charts paths to sustainable wealth creation
Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State. If the outcome of the third edition of the Ogun State Investors’ Forum, which recently held is anything to go by, the state might be on its way to joining the...
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Ogbeh charges BoI to increase sector lending
Acting Managing Director, Bank of Industry, Mr. Waheed Olagunju In its bid to move away from its monolithic source of income and accelerate the diversification of the economy, the Federal Government...
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World Bank, FG partner food processor to reduce post harvest loss
Newly Harvest Maize A newly manufactured multipurpose fruit-processing machine will soon be unveiled by indigenous agro-allied food equipment fabricator based in Lagos, Nobex Technologies Limited, in...
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Return to Agriculture, panacea to economic crunch
Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu A return to full-scale practical agriculture has been cited as cure to the prevailing excruciating effects of economic crunch in the country. Abia State...
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Paltry agric budget: working against 2016 farming season
The days of belt-tightening for millions of Nigerians are here. The trio of lean financial resources, owing to lower government revenue; overhanging debt owed input suppliers in the Growth Enhancement...
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Don canvasses more role for women in agriculture
The Acting Head of Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, Dr. Oluyemisi Fawole has canvassed more role for women, if Nigerian agricultural sector would blossom under the...
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Real agriculture-based diversification yet to take-off
Ogbe Stakeholders Lament Tough Business Climate It is already 12 calendar months, and the onset of the second harvest season (depending on what crop) and the start of another planting season, since the...
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FADAMA bank targets women, youths for empowerment - Coordinator
Newly Harvest Maize The Fadama lll Project Coordinator in Plateau, Mr Gideon Dandam, says that the main target of the Fadama Farmers Micro Finance Bank is to empower women and youths in the society....
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Agro-industrial cluster model to increase productivity, employment
Mr. Duro Kuteyi, Managing Director, Spectra Industries Limited In light of the present downturn in Nigeria’s economy, schemes that can put jobs in the hand of people and reduce rising unemployment are...
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