Agriculture Business

Institute develops 3 new maize varieties for farmers

Ihesiulo Grace 6 July 2017 0

The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria says it has secured approval for the release of three new high-yielding nutrient maize varieties for planting in Nigeria. The Institute made this known in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Lagos.

Agriculture Business

Uzo-Uwani LG urges investors to explore its agro-allied potentialities

Ihesiulo Grace 6 July 2017 0

The Uzo-Uwani Local Government Council of Enugu State has called on prospective investors to take advantage of the council’s vast farm lands and agro-allied potentials. The Caretaker Chairman of the council, Chief Cornell Onwubuya, made the call in a chat with newsmen in Enugu on Wednesday. Onwubuya promised to give the prospective investors the support […]

Agriculture Business

Biotechnology: Nigeria’s potential great – DG NABDA

Ihesiulo Grace 6 July 2017 0

The Director General, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Professor Lucy Ogbadu, said that Nigeria has great future in Biotechnology in the Agricultural Sector given the enabling environment. Ogbadu, who described Biotechnology as a cutting-edge tool that has the potential of changing the way farming is done and ensuring a food secured Nigeria, said these

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66 benefit from FG’s crops processing factory programme

Ihesiulo Grace 6 July 2017 0

No fewer than 66 persons have benefitted from the Cottage Crops Processing Factory Programme of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) Mr Owolabi Olusegun, a Deputy Director in the Federal Department of Agriculture, said this in Ibadan on Wednesday at the 2nd workshop on Cottage Crops Processing Factories in Nigeria. Olusegun also […]

Agriculture Business

STF tackles Police for granting cheap bail to Sara-Suka cult group

Ihesiulo Grace 6 July 2017 0

The re-occurrent activity of a cult gang, known as Sara-Suka, which has been terrorizing Jos metropolis in Jos-north local government area of Plateau state, was on Wednesday blamed on cheap bail granted to them by the police when arrested. This view was expressed by the Plateau Special Task Force Commander, Major General Ibe Nicholas. Speaking […]

Agriculture Business

Sulu-Gambari mourns Maitama Sule

Ihesiulo Grace 6 July 2017 0

The Emir of Ilorin and chairman of the Kwara state traditional council, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has described the demise of the Danmasani’n Kano, Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule, as a great loss to Nigerians and the international community. The monarch stated this on Wednesday in llorin, the state capital in his condolence message. The condolence message, […]

Agriculture Business

Stop internal wrangling, unite to fight common enemy Delta police admonishes Miyetti-Allah

Ihesiulo Grace 6 July 2017 0

As part of conscious effort to ensure that peace, order, safety and security continues to reign in the state, the Delta state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zanna Ibrahim, has called on the leadership of Miyetti-Allah (the umbrella body of Fulani herdsmen) in the state to bring to an end schisms within their fold and unite […]

Agriculture Business

Arraignment of 2 Chinese: Absence of judge stalls trial

Ihesiulo Grace 6 July 2017 0

The planned continuation of trial of two Chinese, Tao Shen and Jing Yau, charged with importation of sub-standard tyres could not proceed as slated on Wednesday at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos. The trial judge, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun was said to be away on official assignment. The case is now fixed for November 9 […]

Agriculture

Akinwumi Adesina emerges 2017 World Food Prize Laureate, gets $250,000

Ihesiulo Grace 26 June 2017 0

The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has been named the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate. The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports in New York that Adesina, whose name was selected on Monday at Washington, D.C, becomes the 46th recipient and the sixth African to be so honoured. […]

Agriculture News

Norsworthy Coy to Invest $20m in Delta Agric Sector – SSG

Ihesiulo Grace 26 June 2017 0

Norsworthy Investment Ltd is to invest over $20million in oil palm Production/processing in Akwukwu-Igbo, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. Performing the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the weekend with Norsworthy Investment Ltd on behalf of the state government, the Agas, described the event as the most ‘’strategic MoU […]

Agriculture

Farmers in Jigawa commends Govt over early intervention

Ihesiulo Grace 16 June 2017 0

Farmers in Jigawa state has commended the state government over the early intervention by providing necessary pesticides on account of army worm invasion (Spodoptera exempta) which was noticed in the state last week. The State Deputy Governor Bar. Ibrahim Hassan who embarked on an assessment tour of farmland affected by these foreign pests Tuesday (yesterday) […]

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Prices of Rice, other food stuffs to fall in the next two weeks- Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, says

Ihesiulo Grace 8 June 2017 0

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, who also doubles as the chairman of presidential task force on soaring prices of foodstuffs, says that within the next two weeks, the prices of rice and other food stuffs would fall. He disclosed this in an interview with Leadership. “The federal government will intervene on the […]

Agriculture

IPC Recommends Potatoes For Improved Nutrition

Ihesiulo Grace 5 June 2017 0

Nigerian farmers have been advised to focus more on the cultivation of a new specie of potato called orange-fleshed sweet potato. The call is coming from the International Potato Centre which says the new specie has many advantages over the old. According to the body, the orange fleshed sweet potato is rich in vitamin A […]

Agriculture Opinion

Herdsmen made Garri, Fufu and Semo’s price to Hike – Farmers’ Body

Ihesiulo Grace 2 June 2017 0

According to Segun Adewumi, President of the Nigeria Cassava Growers Association, the recent reduction in cassava supply and increased cost of cassava products is due to herdsmen attacks on farms. “It has been a very difficult time for cassava farmers in Nigeria because of the incessant attacks by herdsmen, who make it difficult for them […]

Agriculture Nigeria

Agriculturalist tasks govt on food sufficiency

Ihesiulo Grace 29 May 2017 0

The National Coordinator for Zero Hunger Commodity Association in Nigeria, Dr. Tunde Arosanyin, has identified agricultural revolution as panacea to food suffiency and economic development. Arosanyin made the assertion in an interview with newsmen in Ilorin. He stressed the need for government at all levels to show a strong commitment if agriculture was to drive […]

Agriculture

Monarch urges Buhari to put more funds in Agriculture, solid mineral sectors

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2017 0

A traditional ruler in Adamawa state, Chief Feny Fwa, has urged the federal government to allocate more funds to the agricultural and solid mineral sectors as measures to attain economic growth. Fwa, who is the acting First Class Chief for the Mbula people of Demsa stressed the need for the country to invest more in […]

Agriculture

Nasarawa Govt. Urges Support For Proposed Dangote Sugar Plantation

Ihesiulo Grace 23 May 2017 0

Communities in Awe Local Government Area have called for support for Dangote sugar factory which is located in the area in order to boost their economic base. The Nasarawa State Commissioner of Agriculture, Muhammad Jameel Zakari, drummed the support during a meeting with stakeholders from the locality in Lafia, the state capital. According to organisers, […]

Agriculture

Nigeria Produced Rice More Expensive Than Imported Ones – Agric Minister

Ihesiulo Grace 17 May 2017 0

The Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, on Tuesday gave reasons why imported rice is still cheaper than locally produced rice, despite government efforts. Mr. Ogbeh, while responding to questions at a Town Hall meeting in Abuja, said one of the major reasons was that most of the imported rice was subsided by the foreign governments. […]

Agriculture

In Gombe State,Tomatoes pest destroy crops in 3 local Governments

Ihesiulo Grace 11 May 2017 0

Another tomato scarcity might be looming as the tomato pest, Tuta Absoluta has struck again – The pest has seriously affected tomato harvests in three local governments in Gombe state . The pest caused a major tomato scarcity in Nigeria in 2016 when it destroyed the tomato harvest According to the Gombe State Agricultural Development […]

Agriculture

Sokoto creates 27,000 jobs in agric sector- Tambuwal

Ihesiulo Grace 11 May 2017 0

Sokoto State Government says it has created no fewer than 27,166 jobs in the agricultural sector in the last two years. Gov. Aminu Tambuwal said this on Wednesday in Sokoto at the opening of a stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop on Climate Change Adaptation and Agri-business Support, organised in collaboration with the State Office of International Fund […]