The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Mahmood Abubakar, has said that increasing agricultural productivity is key to ensuring an abundant supply of affordable food in the country. Dr. Abubakar, who was representing the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, made this disclosure on Monday at the Feed Nigeria Summit 2022 in Abuja. He stated that the recent ...

By James Emejo in Abuja The Comptroller General, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr. Vincent Isegbe, has said the country is expected to earn about $3 billion annually from hibiscus exports to Mexico. Both NAQS and its Mexican counterpart body, SENASICA, signed a phytosanitary protocol in November to stabilise and grow the export of Nigerian ...

Towfiqu barbhuiya/Unsplash/(file photo). By Olushola Bello Sahara Foundation has announced the award of $5,000 each as seed funding to African social innovators who have successfully completed its 2022 Sahara Impact Fund (SIF) Fellowship programme. The beneficiaries of the seed funding include CEO of OnePad Reusable Pad, Nigeria, Ayilara Oluchi; CEO of Karakunku Farm, the Gambia, ...

By Gabriel Ewepu As food prices remain unabated across the country President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, launched $575 million Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project, RAAMP, to provide roads for farmers and boost rural economy Buhari who was represented by the Governor of Borno State, Prof Babagana Zulum, in his speech vowed to leave no Nigeria ...

By Mary Izuaka The report found that the average price of a 1kg onion bulb rose year-on-year by 32.6 per cent to N405.72 in the review month and by 2.2 per cent between September and October. The average price of a number of selected food items in the country soared in October, according to the ...

By Gilbert Ekugbe The Consultative Group for International Agriculture Research (CGIAR), has announced that its current Board Member, Ms. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, would succeed Mr. Marco Ferroni as the group’s system board chair. This followed Ferroni’s decision to retire and step down from his position as CGIAR after five years of service on December 31, ...

By Soni Daniel Despite frequent invasion of farms and killings of farmers in different parts of the country, especially in South East and Benue State, by armed herdsmen, the federal government said yesterday it was unsure herders intentionally unleash their cattler on farms. The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, who stated this while responding ...

With the present state of hunger in Nigeria, many families risk losing their children to Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) or raising generation of children with poor intelligence quotient (IQ) due to malnutrition. According to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA), food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, ...

The Nigeria Poultry & Livestock Expo 2023, NIPOLI EXPO, it’s a platform that will serve as a connection between  fishery, poultry and livestock products and services providers and Nigerian SMEs, to explore business opportunities, learn the latest fishery, poultry and livestock market trends and exchange views and ideas on the latest technology. We are pleased ...

Some women in Jos metropolis, seeking alternatives to high prices of staple food and vegetables, have taken to backyard farming for the daily food needs of their families. Some of the women who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jos, said it is commonsensical to have a small farm to ...