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NEMA Distributes Agricultural Inputs To 2,463 Farmers In Ogun
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed agricultural inputs on behalf of the federal government to no fewer than 2,463 farmers in Ogun State, as a result of flood disaster in 2020.
This was disclosed on Tuesday by…
FAO Trains Veterinarians on data collation , animal disease epidemiology
AS part of its technical support to Nigeria to curb emerging animal diseases, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), through the Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) programme, is empowering…
Bauchi Agricultural Stakeholders Decry Spate Of Insecurity
It has been lamented that the spate of insecurity in Nigeria is negatively affecting the agricultural sector as farmers particularly peasants who form the majority of the farmers are gradually abandoning their farms for fear of falling…
NSPRI Distributes Improved Agric Storage Facilities
NIGERIAN Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI) Kwara state has flagged off the distribution of improved storage facilities for vulnerable rural women and youth in 19 selected states in the country.
The facilities distributed in the…
NIRSAL Trains Farmers on Modern Agricultural practices
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL Plc) said it has trained about 780 farmers on modern, business-oriented pre-upstream, upstream, midstream, and downstream operations to enhance their income.…
Kaduna state to spend 10bn on cattle ranching
Aanya Igomu
Kaduna State is spending 10 billion Naira to build a ranch to centralise hearders.
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai stated this while speaking to journalists at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives…
Releaf Secures Funding To Drive Industrialisation Of Food Processing
RELEAF, an agtech start-up that develops proprietary hardware and software solutions that makes African farmers and food factories more efficient and profitable, has raised $2.7 million seed funding in a round led by Samurai Incubate…
Development Partners Agree to Begin First Phase SAPZ of in Nigeria
The Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) project has been endorsed by a coalition of Development Institutions as capable of changing the narrative of African agriculture.
The Institutions pledged their commitments to speed up…
Ondo Govt Trains Pastoral farmers On Feedlots Operational System
ONDO State government said it has trained and certified 150 pastoralists in cattle, sheep and goat value-chain business with special emphasis on feedlot operational system.
The event was organised by Ondo State Agricbusiness Empowerment…
Nigeria records N817.35 billion in agricultural trade -NBS
A total of N817.35 billion worth of trade in agricultural goods has been recorded by the Federal Government in the second quarter of 2021.
This was recently disclosed by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in a document entitled…