Tag Archives: Agriculture

TAYO OLANIPEKUN Journalists have been urged to intensify their coverage of the agricultural sector with a view to making it attractive to the youths and reminding the government of the obligation to demonstrate more commitment to agriculture through the budgetary allocation. Head of Oxfam GB Nigeria, Constant Tchona, who made the charge during the week at the opening of a …

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  Tayo Olanipekun Indiscriminate harvesting of forest produce will increase the level of poverty accompanied with food shortages in Nigeria and unless something drastic is done about it, the nation will miss out on the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This is owing to the illegal logging activities causing a yearly loss of 400,000 hectares of arable lands …

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Niger to produce one million metric tonnes of Rice in dry season farming Olabode Adaramola Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has said that adequate provision has been made to enable rice farmers in the state produce one million metric tonnes of rice by the end of this year’s dry season. He said this just as the Minister of …

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FG proposes 10 earth dams for each state To increase food production across the country, the Federal Government has concluded plans to install at least 10 earth dams in each state of the federation.  Under the arrangement,  dikes is also to be put in place  in the riverine areas  while rehabilitation of  existing non-functional ones are to get top priority.  In a message to mark …

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  FG Raises 10-Member Team on Agric Roadmap A ten-member committee has been inaugurated by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) to drive the successful Implementation of Nigeria’s Agric Sector Policy Roadmap, the “Green Alternative”. According to the ministry, the “Efficiency Team” is made up of 10 officers, drawn from the core external advisors to the Minister; …

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The African Development Bank has approved a nine million dollar equity investment in the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN) to provide expansion capital to agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This was contained in a press statement issued by the bank on Monday and published on its web: www.afdb.org. According to (NAN) the statement said that FAFIN is a first-generation private …

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