Agriculture

A report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that the rise in the cost of foods (and other non-agric items) has pushed the country’s inflation rate to 17.33 percent in February 2021. The NBS said on Tuesday that food…

Djam Wilfred Chiatoh is a fish farmer from the central region of Cameroon. He is also an animal production specialist but, after 12 years of poultry, pig, and rabbit farming, coupled with a loss of over 2,000 pigs to African swine fever, he…

The Robs4Crops project is to accelerate the shift towards the large-scale implementation of robotics and automation in European farming. With a € 7.9 million budget funded by the European Union, the project represents a high-tech revolution…

The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has called for unity and decisiveness to tackle the unabated farmer herders crisis in the country. Tinubu, in a statement on Saturday by his media aide, Tunde…

Nigeria is on the verge of establishing a National Livestock Hospital following the signing of an agreement with Morocco, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammed Sabo Nanono has said. The Minister made this known…

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, Friday, blamed institutional failure for the blockade of foodstuff supply and transportation to Southern Nigeria as the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria, AUFCDN,…

An unprecedented increase in farmers’ population, driven by a corresponding transformation in farming methods and changing climate, has mainly been responsible for a geometric rise in feuds between crop farmers and herders in Nigeria since…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the country's apex bank, has flagged off the 2020 Wet Season Harvest Aggregation and 2020 Dry Season Input Distribution under the RIFAN-CBN Anchor Borrowers' Programme in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria.…

Farmers in Nigeria have been urged to grow crops and other products based on guided industrial demands to reduce gluts, marketing challenges, gross importation, and capital flight, as well as to build resilient agriculture. Nigeria is…

The Executive Secretary of the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the Anchor Borrowers Program to graduates of the colleges of Agriculture in the country to enable them to…