The Benue State Government has approved a comprehensive five-year Strategic Food Security Plan designed to increase agricultural productivity, improve food security and support sustainable rural development. The initiative aims to address longstanding challenges affecting the state’s agricultural sector, including insecurity, climate change and declining rural livelihoods. Developed under the theme “Enhancing Food Security and Peacebuilding ...

Shield Africa Sustainability and Development Initiative has graduated a new cohort of young people and women from Benue State after a six-month fish farming programme aimed at strengthening food security, creating jobs and promoting agribusiness development. The Shield Africa Sustainability and Development Initiative has expanded efforts to promote food security and youth empowerment in Nigeria ...

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) value chain development programme in collaboration with the federal government on Tuesday distributed farm inputs amounting to N52, 000,000 to 300 cassava and rice farmers in Benue State. The state programme coordinator, Mr Emmanuel Igbaukum disclosed this during the flag off ceremony of the distribution in Makurdi. According to ...