Rice farmers

The Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, says it has trained and empowered 500 rice farmers across the state. Speaking during the empowerment and training programme, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, Dr. Oluwarotimi…

Alluvial Agriculture, a community farming initiative supporting thousands of farmers, is partnering IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, to help 15,000 Nigerian rice farmers optimize their productivity over three years. The partnership…

Wheat and rice farmers in Nigeria have been urged to embrace the use of combined harvesters to avoid in-harvest food losses amid insufficient production. Combined harvesters are able to cut and thresh both rice and wheat instantaneously,…

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.…

The Women Farmers Advancement Network (WOFAN) has trained 60 extension workers from 4 states of Nigeria on advancing agriculture through the deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The training…

The Kwara State Government has facilitated the disbursement of N115m by the Central Bank of Nigeria to local rice farmers to cultivate 420 hectares of land for the 2020/2021 dry season farming in the state. The Technical…