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Commonwealth Organisation Partners OAU, ARMTI To Educate Policymakers On Smart Agric

May 22, 2023 0

The Vice-Chancellor, Osun State University, Professor Clement Adebooye, has called on Nigerian farmers to embrace smart agriculture through indirect learning for high yield and greater productivity. The Vice Chancellor made the call on Friday during a workshop on Scaling-up Lifelong Learning for decision makers (permanent secretaries, directors and general managers of parastatals). The workshop was sponsored by the Commonwealth of …

Nigeria Must Embrace Modern Agricultural Practice To Recover Her Economy-Alabi

July 13, 2020 0

As Nigeria considers diversifying her economy from oil and gas, it has become obvious that agriculture must be given priority once again. In this interview with DAYO EMMANUEL, a young farmer, trainer and final year student of the Federal University of Agriculture (FUNAB) Abeokuta, Ogun State, Grace Alabi advises Nigerian farmers to shun old ways of practicing agriculture. Alabi, founder …

Agric Value To Hit N91trn By 2050

July 23, 2018 0

The Fishery Society of Nigeria (FISON) says that the value of the country agricultural sector is estimated to reach about 256 million dollars (over N91 trillion) by 2050. Dr Bola Adekoya, First Vice-President of FISON made the disclosure at the Agricultural Value Chains (AVC) Stakeholder’s Capacity Development” workshop on Monday in Lagos. The workshop was organised by Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk …

Sterling Bank emerges Best Bank in Support of Agric

October 17, 2017 0

Sterling Bank Plc has won the Best Bank in Support of Agriculture Award at the Business Day Banking Awards 2017 held in Lagos. The award is in recognition of Sterling Bank’s peerless support to the entire value chain in the agriculture sector of the economy. The awards, organized by BusinessDay Nigeria, is regarded as the banking industry’s benchmark for outstanding …