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Hon. Rotimi Amechi “Government must not be for one section of the Society.It must be for the rich and the poor,emphasizing the upliftment of the poor...”
The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Christian, Oboh, says the Commission’s branded rice would hit the nation’s market by the end of June. Dr. Oboh who gave the indication during a courtesy call on him in his office in Port Harcourt recently by officials of Braced Commission said the NDDC [...]
Food Security Policy Adviser in West Africa of Oxfam, an International humanitarian agency, Al Hassan Cisse, has commended some African footballers’ efforts in the support against hunger on the African continent. The gesture which coincided with the just concluded African Cup of Nations tournament has stars including Moumouni Dagano from Burkina Faso, Demba Ba from [...]
In fulfillment of President Goodluck Jonathan’s economic agenda, 56 Chinese experts and technicians has arrived the country to teach peasant farmers some techniques on local food production. The training which is part of the South South Cooperation and United Nation’s strategy to strengthen development in Nigeria, has seen Chinese experts in the past three years [...]
A call has gone to the Rivers State Government to convert the state owned Delta Robber Company to Oil Palm Plantations for better viability. Dr. Eleoke Chikwe Chukwuigwe of the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics of the Rivers State University of Science and technology, Port Harcourt made the call yesterday in an interview with [...]
Them inister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has stated that the federal government was committed in restoring agriculture to its position of the largest employer of labour in the country. The Minister who stated this recently with newsmen in Lagos when he paid a courtesy call on the management of The Sun [...]
In order to make life more meaningful to the rural farmer in the country, the Federal government has been called upon to establish micro-finance banks in all the local government headquarters of the country in order to take care of the financial needs of the peasant farmers across the country. The Paramount ruler of Emoh [...]
A geologist and renowned soil engineer, Mr. Olomom Joshua Edoni has challenged the various agricultural institutes in the country to device ways and means of checking the extinction of some important crops in the various communities of the country especially in the Niger Delta region. Engr. Edoni who stated this in an exclusive interview with [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the era of Nigeria importing rice, fertilizer and other crops into the country would soon come to an end so long as the government supports and encourages local production of goods and services. The President who was speaking in Ibese in Abeokuta recently at the Commissioning of the 6 [...]
Moringa is a tropical tree believed to have its origin in Agra and Oduh in the northwest region of India, South of the Himalayan mountains and mentioned in the a “shushruta Sanhita” which was written in the beginning of the First Century AD and has evidence that its cultivation in India dates back to many [...]
Governments in Nigeria at various levels and at different times as one could remember has committed money, materials and other resources for the development of the agricultural sector with nothing to show for it till date. Many today are of the view that government has no business wasting money on agricultural ventures while another school [...]
