Farmers

Osun State government in Southwest Nigeria has empowered 1000 farmers with 100,000 cocoa seedlings. It also distributed agro-chemicals, hand-spraying tools, limes and other farm inputs to farmers across the State. Speaking at the…

No fewer than 65,000 smallholder farmers have benefitted from the 2021 Rainy Season Farming Intervention launched by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in North-East Nigeria. The initiative is aimed at…

A graduate of Computer Science from Lagos State University (LASU). Hannah Olaniyan. Olaniya had nursed a keen interest in farming, it was not out of place for her love for agriculture to grow stronger as she was rounding off her studies.…

The Development Gateway in partnership with the International Fertilizer Development Centre has launched the Visualizing Insights on Fertilizer for African Agriculture (VIFAA) dashboard for Nigeria.  The project, sponsored by Bill and…

The major obstacle preventing farmers, especially those in rural communities, from getting value for their produce lies in the activities of middlemen. This, according to stakeholders in the agricultural sector, has been preventing many…

As the hope of getting government’s subsidised fertiliser this farming season dims further, some farmers in Jigawa State have adopted the technique of turning neem leaves into fertiliser. The farmers, especially those in…

Nigerian Unity Bank Plc says it will provide additional funding to no fewer than 120,000 smallholder maize farmers in Nigeria in the 2021 wet season farming in the nation. Managing director/Chief Executive Officer, Tomi Somefun,…

FARMERS from all the local government areas in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State have received guidance on ways to make their business flourish. The school, recently organised a seminar in Saki, where the farmers were tutored on how best to go…

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says it has commenced the training of 1,110 extension agents in 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisations…

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,…