Agriculture

Nigeria Facilitates CAADP Implementation, selects AGRA as Strategic Partner

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2025 0

In a decisive step toward strengthening food systems and accelerating agricultural transformation, Nigeria’s Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, CON, has launched the Agricultural Sector Working Group (ASWG), placing collaboration and accountability at the

Entrepreneurship page

Sack Farming: The lucrative urban agriculture revolution you can start with just N60, 000

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 18 August 2024 0

By Temitope Adebayo Agriculture has always been a cornerstone of the Nigerian economy, contributing significantly to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and providing livelihoods for millions of people. Sack farming, also known as vertical or container farming, is an innovative agricultural practice that involves growing crops in sacks filled with soil or

Politics

N’East Govs vow to reverse desertification speed, invest in agriculture

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 19 May 2024 0

By Samuel Luka Disturbed by the scourge of desert encroachment, the Northeast Governors have vowed to work assiduously towards reversing the speed of desertification in the region. The members of the Forum which comprises Governors of Bauchi, Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Taraba and Gombe made this known in a Communique of their 10th meeting in Bauchi […]

News

NiMet’s Renewed Collaboration With Agriculture Ministry Is Good For The Nigerian Economy

Ihesiulo Grace 3 May 2024 0

By Dr. Uche Nworah The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is a Ministry of the Federal Government of Nigeria that has the mandate to ensure food security in crop, livestock and fisheries. The ministry is also tasked to stimulate agricultural employment and services, promote the production and supply of raw materials to Agro- […]

News

Interior, Agric Ministries partner to boost food security

Ihesiulo Grace 6 June 2021 0

Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has disclosed the readiness of his Ministry to partner the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to strengthen food security across the country. Aregbesola who disclosed this in his office in Abuja when he received his counterpart from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural […]

News

NYSC DG charges corpers to develop interest in agriculture

Ihesiulo Grace 25 April 2021 0

Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has charged youth corps members to develop interest in agriculture to enable them be self-reliant. He stated this at the inauguration of the 2021 Farming season by NYSC Youth Corps members on a 16-hectare farm land secured by the NYSC in Doma local government area of […]

Agriculture

60% post-harvest losses crippling agri business in Nigeria — NYFN

Ihesiulo Grace 29 September 2020 0

By Philip Clement The Nigeria Young Farmers Network (NYFN) has expressed worry over post-harvest loses in the agricultural sector which it projected to be about 60%. According to the group, the loses is crippling agricultural businesses and increasing food shortages across the country. Director General and National coordinator of NYFN, Promise Amahah made this known […]

Agriculture Business News

COVID-19 effects threaten food security, increase vulnerability of women farmers

Ihesiulo Grace 4 August 2020 0

Mrs Motunrayo Ajagbe, 55, is a smallholder farmer in Ibadan. She has afarm at Oluyole Local Government Area. She and members of her familydepend on the sale of the farm produce for survival. During the initial five weeks of the lockdown occasioned by COVID 19pandemic, she lost 70 per cent of her crops and vegetables because shecould not go to the farm to tend to them.

News

Young Nigerian farmer, Adama .J. Adama launches platform for farmers to obtain loans

Ihesiulo Grace 5 June 2020 0

Adama J Adama, MD/CEO of Farm4Me, has launched a platform for farmers who are seeking loans to grow their agrobusiness. Adama who unveiled this new platform as, www.viablex.com said it will create job for millions of Nigerians.Adding that the platform was created to change the face of agrobusiness in Nigeria. READ ALSO: Buhari’s agric revolution […]

Agriculture

Agriculture is the way forward for Nigerians to ease effect of COVID-19, expert says

Ihesiulo Grace 4 June 2020 0

Chief Godson Ezenagu, an agriculture expert in Anambra, has called on Nigerians to engage in agricultural practices as a measure to cushion the effect of looming food insecurity due to COVID-19. Ezenagu, a two-time commissioner for Agriculture in Anambra, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on […]

News

Buhari appoints Alwan Ali Hassan as Acting Managing Director for Bank of Agriculture

Ihesiulo Grace 7 May 2020 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate dissolution of the Interim Management Team and the appointment of Mr Alwan Ali Hassan, as Acting Managing Director for the Bank of Agriculture. According to a statement on Thursday by the spokesperson for the Federal Agriculture and Rural Development, Theodore Ogaziechi, Hassan is a seasoned Banker with over […]

Agro Times

Firm to organise first Agric reality TV show

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2020 0

A Lagos based firm, Kairos Events and Entertainment on Wednesday, announced its first Agriculture reality television show in Nigeria. Mrs Ibinabo Dixon, Corporate Affairs Director said this in a statement made in Lagos. READ ALSO: Gov. Ganduje, wife test negative to COVID-19 Ibinabo said that the reality show themed “Face of Agric Nigeria (FOAN) 2020,” […]

Agriculture

Unemployment: FG urges Nigerians to focus attention on agriculture

Ihesiulo Grace 20 March 2020 0

Abuja – Alhaji Sabo Nanono, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has urged Nigerians to focus more on agriculture being the largest employer of labour to reduce poverty and ensure food security. Nanono, who gave the advice in Abuja, added that “the sector has enormous opportunities’’. According to him, the only way the nation […]

News

FG says Nigeria can comfortably ban fish imports by 2022

Ihesiulo Grace 19 March 2020 0

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, says the federal government can comfortably close its borders in respect to the importation of fish in the next two years. Nanono said this when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) flagship programme, NAN Forum on Thursday in Abuja. He said that the […]

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Oyetola seeks US support in education, mining, agriculture

Ihesiulo Grace 10 March 2020 0

Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun state has solicited support of the United States of America in the area of vocational education and mining. Gov. Oyetola made the remarks during a courtesy visit by the US Consul General, Claire Pierangelo and her team to his office on Monday in Osogbo. The governor said the state needs […]

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NDDC, Rivers partner to drive agricultural development

Ihesiulo Grace 4 March 2020 0

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is partnering with the Rivers state Ministry of Agriculture to promote mechanized agriculture and move the Niger Delta region away from subsistence farming. NDDC acting Managing Director, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, said this during a courtesy visit by officials of the Rivers state Ministry of Agriculture led by the

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Reps c’ttee summons BOA over N81bn anchor borrowers’ loan from farmers

Ihesiulo Grace 29 February 2020 0

House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture has summoned the Management of the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), Kaduna, to clear issues on the bank’s inability to recover the N81 billion loan disbursed to farmers under the CBN Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP). The Committee gave the order on Friday, when it paid an oversight visit to the […]

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Agriculture: Why we’re adopting technology to boost productivity, minimise risk – NIRSAL

Ihesiulo Grace 27 February 2020 0

In a bid to bid to boost agricultural productivity and minimize risk in mechanized farming, the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) says it is deploying technology to ensure efficiency. Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that agriculture accounts for an average of 24 per cent of the continent’s […]

Business News

Experts, others converge in Lagos to reshape Agric sector

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2020 0

Industry experts and other critical stakeholders in the food and agriculture sector across West Africa sub-region will converge in Lagos next week for the maiden edition of the West Africa Agric Show, (WASS). The WASS, according to its Convener, Mr Idowu Asenuga is aimed at accelerating the food revolution in the African continent and offers […]

Opinion

A global brand positioning strategy for Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 7 February 2020 0

When my article, ‘How to build a great brand’ was published recently, I received an email from an unlikeliest source. It came from Al Ries–one of the world’s best known marketing strategists — all the way from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, after reading the article. Al is 93 years old and he began his working […]