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FG launches youth farmers enrollment portal to tackle unemployment, food insecurity

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By Dooyum Naadzenga The Federal Government has unveiled the Youth Farmers Enrollment Portal, a groundbreaking initiative designed to combat rising unemployment and food insecurity across Nigeria. This innovative platform was launched by the Honourable Minister of Youth Development, Comrade

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FAO trains Nigerian farmers on production of livestock feeds

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The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has trained Nigeria farmers on how to produce their own feeds to forestall shortages. Mr David Tsokar, Communication Specialist, FAO, who spoke with the media on Wednesday in Abuja, said the exercise was tagged Training-of-Trainers (ToT) workshop. Tsokar said the training would address the persistent […]

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Broadcast: Monitor agricultural grants, subsidies distribution, Farmers’ society tells Tinubu

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The Agbekoya Society of Nigeria, a parent body of Agbekoya Farmers Association of Nigeria, has urged President Bola Tinubu to monitor distribution of grants and subsidies for agriculture to achieve the purpose. The group gave the advice in an open letter to Tinubu on Sunday, following Sunday’s presidential broadcast over nationwide ##EndBadGovernance protest. The letter

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Farmers: Nigeria can earn $60 million annually from donkey production

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The National Association of Donkey Farmers (NADFAMS) asserted that the nation has the potential to generate over 60 million dollars annually and create job opportunities for millions of young individuals through the donkey production sector. A member of the Board of Trustees of NADFAM, Chidebere Innabuike, made this statement during the official inauguration of the […]

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10m farmers to benefit from GYSAPEO’s project 2024, As Chairman Inaugurates Advisory& Trustee Board

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The Global Youth Skills Acquisition and Poverty Eradication Organisation (GYSAPEO) has announced plans to empower 10 million farmers mostly at the grassroots, as part of its 2024 project. GYSAPEO Founder, Emmanuel Chuks Ozegbe stated this on Monday at the unveiling of Project 2024 titled: ‘Prosperity Assured Economic Initiative’, in Abuja. Ozegbe said the organisation

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Heritage Bank, CBN to disburse N41bn to farmers in 14 states

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By Temitope Adebayo Heritage Bank Plc in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has set up plans to disburse a total sum of N41billion to farmers from 14 states for the expansion of the wheat production project. The Bank, however, will register the wheat farmers with the Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE) […]

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76 farmers held hostage by ISWAP fighters in Borno

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Islamic State-affiliated terrorists had held captive 76 farmers in the northeastern state of Borno near the border of Cameroon for two days before releasing them, according to militia sources. The farmers were abducted from a displaced people’s camp in Ngala on Friday by fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) while burning vegetation […]

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Nigerian farmers ask FG to extend repayment of CBN loan due to insecurity

Ihesiulo Grace 8 August 2021 0

Farmers are currently putting pressure on the Federal Government to ask the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the loan repayment for the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) due to disruption of crop production caused by worsening insecurity across the country. This follows the call by the CBN that the beneficiaries of the ABP, its […]

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Farmers, exporters bemoan rejection of farm produce at international market

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NNEKA NWOGWUGWU, ABUJA Farmers and exporters have blamed poor capacity of production companies as one of the challenges of exporting Nigeria’s agriculture products to other countries. The farmers and exporters in separate interviews with The Sunday Times, however, explained possible reasons for the rejection of the international market. The National Publicity

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Farmers to get newly released BT Cowpea for 2021 planting season

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Philip Clement, Abuja The Director-General of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Professor Abdullahi Mustapha, has disclosed that Nigerian farmers would by the 2021 planting season, get the newly released Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) Cowpea (beans). Professor Mustapha disclosed this on Wednesday during the presentation of the Open Forum for Agricultural

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200 children risk hunger as herdsmen kill five farmers, torch bans in Plateau

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Armed men believed to be herders on Sunday killed five farmers in Central Nigeria’s Plateau State, one week after a peace meeting with local officials. The assailants, over a dozen according to locals first ambushed three at about 6:30pm, between Ri-bakwa and Rikwe-Chongu villages in Kwall district of Bassa area. The three identified as Ezekiel […]

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‘We will intervene in Ondo, Oyo herdsmen issue’ – Senate Leader

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Tunde Opalana and Kamarudeen Ogundele, Abuja Finding lasting solution to herders/farmers incessant clashes in southern part of the country will receive urgent parliamentary attention as the Senate resumes plenary today, Leader of the Senate, Senator Yahaya Abdulllahi has assured. This is with the assurance that recent ethnic wrangling over activities of Fulani herdsmen in

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Herders-Farmers crises can lead to another civil war-Soyinka

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Nobel laureate, Professor Wọle Soyinka has warned that the conflict between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in the country could lead into another civil war. In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) pidgin, Soyinka called on President Muhammadu Buhari to address the nation and dissociate himself from the activities of those who run their […]

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‘Between farmers and agricultural insurance’

Ihesiulo Grace 9 September 2020 0

By Godwin Anyebe Agricultural businesses are among the most risky economic ventures one can embark upon. The reason is that the investment depends absolutely on unpredictable weather conditions. A storm, flood, drought and other natural hazards make a return on investment from crop and other agricultural products like livestock poultry and dairies to be very […]

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CAC declares faction of farmers’ body illegal

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By Godwin Anyebe The registration of a separate Kano branch of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) by Mr Umar Farouk with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), after his expulsion from the body in 2016 has been declared illegal. According to the CAC: “A review of our records revealed that All Farmers Association of […]

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North West farmers back to work amid troops operations –DHQ

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Defence Headquarters says farmers in the North Western part of the country have returned to their farms as the troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria have continue clearance operations in the zone, Daily Times gathered. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this while giving updates on military operations across the country […]

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NIRSAL structures FCT farmers into 16 agro geo-cooperatives

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Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System (NIRSAL) has said it had structured Federal Capital Territory (FCT) farmers into 16 established Agro Geo-Cooperatives (AGCs) for the 2020 wet season farming. NIRSAL Head of Corporate Communications, Ms Anne Ihugba, in a statement issued in Abuja said 12 of the AGCs had been included in the Anchor Borrowers Programme […]

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Herder/farmer clash: Bauchi suspends Emir of Misau, others

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Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State on Friday suspended the First Class Emir of Misau, Alhaji Ahmed Suleiman, the District Head of Chiroma Village, Bapa Ahmed , and the Village Head of Zadawa, Yusuf Atiku, over a land crisis between farmers and Fulani herders in the area. Nine lives were lost and many persons injured […]

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COVID-19: OCP Africa Distributes Fertilizers to 10,000 Farmers in Kaduna to ensure food security

Ihesiulo Grace 9 June 2020 0

OCP Africa, one of the leading companies in the global production and exportation of phosphate-based fertilizers is working within the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) of the Federal Government of Nigeria, and with blending plants under the Fertilizer Producers and Suppliers of Nigeria (FEPSAN), to contribute to the PFI objectives of providing access to locally

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CBN to fund 1.6m farmers in 2020 wet season

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it will fund 1.6 million farmers in the 2020 wet season across the country. CBN Director, Development Finance Department, Mr. Yila Yusuf disclosed this during a flag-off of farm inputs distribution for cotton farmers for the 2020 planting season in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory […]