Farmers and traders traveling through Bagudo in Bagudu Local Government Area of Kebbi on Sunday lamented incessant extortion by security agencies at various checkpoints along road. The road links Nigeria with Benin Republic. “From Tsamiya Market, a grain supplier loading a truck with 600 bags of maize or...
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Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori has said the state government will disburse two billion naira Special Agricultural Intervention Fund to farmers this month. The governor discloser this on Wednesday after inspecting the Accelerated Agricultural Development Scheme (AADS) at Mbiri Farm Settlement and the Agro-Industrial Park, Aboh-Ogwashi in Ika...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Niger State Governor, Umar Bago, has said his administration will likely hit N1 trillion in revenue through the Niger Food Security and Logistics Company, in the next five years. The governor’s Special Adviser on Digital Media and Strategy, Mr Abdullberqy Ebbo, stated this...
The Benue State Government on Wednesday said property worth more than N425 billion were destroyed as a result of the ongoing alleged Fulani herders attack on farmers in the State. Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Mr Aondowase Kunde, disclosed this when he received Senior Course 46...
The Chairman, Oyo State Agricultural Credit Corporation of Oyo State (ACCOS), Sheik Taofik Akeugbagold, has listed the criteria being used to disburse the N1 billion loan to farmers to ensure geographical spread. Akeugbagold made the revelation during a sensitization tour to the 7 geopolitical zones in the State which...
Farmers in Niger have appealed to the State and Federal Governments to protect them from bandits who have imposed levies on them before harvesting their crops. The farmers said in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that government intervention was necessary as insecurity has virtually...
The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) has given 78 million dollars as training grant to 150 farmers in Bauchi State and the FCT to boost food security in Nigeria. The beneficiaries are farmers of the Community Allied Farmers Association of Nigeria (COMAFAS). Mrs Massandje Toure-Litse, ECOWAS Commissioner...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has flagged off the distribution of agricultural inputs to one thousand seven hundreds beneficiaries from Gwoza, Chibok and Damboa Federal Constituency donated by House of Representatives member representing the constituency Honourable Ahmed Usman Jaha. The occasion which took...
By ORKULA SHAAGEE, Abuja – No fewer than 800 farmers in Igboeze-South State Constituency have been trained on how to produce different organic fertilizers and pesticides they will use in their farms. In a remark on Thursday in Nsukka during the one day training at St Mary’s...
A free mobile app for chicken farmers is set to make optimal poultry nutrition easier, while also helping farmers save money and improve profits. The new FeedMixer App is designed by poultry nutrition experts at the Poultry Science Department at the University of Georgia in the US and funded...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has donated relief materials to 23,000 farmers and vulnerable persons affected by the 2022 flood in Niger. The Director General of the agency, Alhaji Mustapha Ahmed, said this during the inauguration of the distribution of the support materials in Minna on Saturday....
A war between military factions in Sudan is putting at risk the production of staple crops this year, farmers in several states say, threatening to drive the African nation deeper into hunger and poverty. Reuters spoke to more than a dozen people including farmers, experts, and aid workers who...
As farmers begin cropping activities, Bauchi, Gombe and Jigawa State Governments have approved 50 per cent subsidy on fertiliser prices to ease access to the commodity. A check by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi, Gombe and Jigawa showed that the sale of the commodity at the...
Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo has announced a new minimum wage of N40, 000 for workers in the state to ease the pains caused by the removal of fuel subsidy. The governor also announced N5 billion revolving loan for farmers, as well as free transportation and medical care. Uzodimma...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – To reduce high cost of living caused by withdrawal of fuel subsidy, Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday, released 80 buses and pick up vans for free transportation of farmers from their communities to farmlands. The 80 means of transport will comprise of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum says his administration will collaborate through some initiatives that will give farmers in Borno State increased and safe access to their farmlands this rainy season. Governor Zulum stated this at Keleri, a town in the outskirt of Maiduguri, located...
No fewer than 6,062 farmers in Lagos State have received agricultural inputs and production assets from the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (N-CARES) programme, a World Bank supported project. Mr Jonathan Obayemi, State Project Coordinator, Lagos N-CARES, stated this at the distribution exercise in Alimosho Local Government...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday distributed 442 tractors, 312 ploughing and harrowing implements and 100 trucks of MPK fertilizers to farmers at Borno Digital Farm Center, Muna along Mafa-Dikwa Road, Maiduguri He directed that 5 tractors should be distributed to each of...
The Association of Northern Agricultural and Allied Commodities Practitioners (ANAACOP) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has inaugurated farmers programmable money agro e-Naira engagement. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme is targeting one million farmers in Northeastern states in 2023 farming season. Mr Godwin Emefiele,...
As farmers across the country prepare for the 2023 planting season, farmers in Ebonyi and Enugu States have expressed mixed concerns about the prediction of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) of early rain in March. A cross-section of the farmers who spoke on the prediction in separate interviews with...