Oyo to integrate farmers into development plan

Oyo State Government has reassured smallholder farmers of improved support and integration into the development plan of the state, in accordance with the four points agenda of the Governor Seyi Makinde led administration. This, the Government said, would spur productivity and enhance the quality of food consumed by the people in the state. Commissioner for […]

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World Food Day: Oyo recommits to food sufficiency

Oyo State Government has reiterated its commitment to support Farmers and youths in the state, in a bid to achieve food sustenance and sufficiency. This was contained in a statement by the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Hon Adeniyi Adebisi, to commemorate the World Food Day today. The statement was signed by the Commissioner […]

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Massive loan default in North West Anchor Borrowers Programme

Kaduna farmers repay less than 50 per cent 80 per cent of Kano farmers yet to pay We now take farmers to court, says RIFAN President ‘Some farmers see the loan as national cake’ Kebbi set up a recovery committee to no avail Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) in the Northwest is threatened by the failure […]

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Poultry farmers lament bird flu outbreak, encourage improved biosecurity measures

Some poultry farmers in Lagos state are lamenting over the recent bird flu outbreak across the country and have called for improved biosecurity measures in the poultry farms. They lamented the impact of the recent bird flu outbreak in the poultry sector in separate interviews on Monday in Lagos. Mr Emmanuel Iregbeyen, poultry farmer at […]

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Akwa Ibom working to replace crude oil with coconut economy – Government

Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr. Glory Edet explains the efforts of the state to revive agriculture through various empowerment schemes for farmers. She adds that value chain development strategy, where the emphasis is laid on farm input suppliers, farmers, aggregators, processors, and marketers, is the focus of the administration to […]

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Lagos supports 3,000 farmers with inputs, tools as Sanwo-Olu flags off value chains venture

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu test-driving a tractor at the flag-off of the 2021 Agricultural Value Chains Enterprise Activation programme at Police College, Ikeja Lagos State is adjudged the smallest state in the country by landmass, lacking the large tracts of land available to other states for cultivation of crops and agriculture. And though […]

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Path to maximising cassava value chain in Nigeria

Although Nigeria has attained the status of largest producer of cassava in the world with its production accounting for 21 per cent of total production of the crop globally, thanks to recent interventions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the agro sector, there are indications that concerted efforts are still required to effectively […]

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Nigeria 2nd poorest in food affordability – Report

Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Nanono A new report by the Institute of Development Studies, a UK-based think tank, has placed Nigeria as the second poorest country in the world in terms of food affordability. The report, which was compiled through a publicly available global cost-of-living database, Numbeo, was used in creating a ‘cost of food […]

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Lagos empowers 3,000 farmers with inputs

Lagos State government has empowered about 3,000 agripreneurs with agricultural productive assets and inputs under the 2021 Agricultural Value Chains Enterprise Activation Programme. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the kick off of distribution yesterday, described the intervention as a demonstration of his administration’s commitment to the development, expansion and growth of agriculture in Lagos State. According […]

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OYSADA: Expanding food security interventions in Oyo State

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde When the Oyo State Government distributed cassava seeds and other inputs as part of their COVID-19 intervention support plan, their action was mocked by some as being cheap and unimaginative. Some people could not understand why cassava stems were being used as input support. However, what many did not realise […]

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