Agency Warns Against Poultry In Residential Areas
The Kaduna State Environmental Protection Authority (KEPA) yesterday warned farmers against establishing poultry farms in residential areas.
The authority’s General Manager, Malam Aminu Sani, told...
Sylva Harps On Agric Dev
Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa has underscored the importance of agriculture as substitute to oil and gas.
Sylva said this in Yenagoa when he received...
Tomato Farmers Seek Preservation Facilities
Tomato farmers in Mubi, and Adamawa, have called on the state government to establish modern preservation facilities for perishable agricultural produce to minimize wastages...
Enugu Farmers Get N1bn Lifeline
The Enugu State Government is to disburse N1 billion to farmer co-operative groups as part of efforts to ensure the success of the Enugu-Songhai...
22 Communities Get NDDC Aquaculture Initiatives
More than 22 communities in Bayelsa and Delta States have benefited from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) aquaculture initiative launched two years ago.
Dr....
Rivers Farmers Predict Bumper Harvest
Farmers in Rivers state have described 2011 as a year of bumper harvest due to the climate change which resulted to early rainfall in...
Price Of Yam Rises In Jos
Following the persistent crises rocking Jos, the price of yams have skyrocketed in the Plateau capital and its environs.
A market survey by our correspondent...
World Bank Trains Farmers On Risk Management
The World Bank training in agriculture risk management for institutions in Nigeria and Anglophone West African countries ended in Accra, Ghana with the participants...
Cocoyam Cultivation And Food Security
Food is one of the people’s basic necessities of life and government’s recognition of this fact informs its strenuous efforts to always ensure that...
Expert Hails Songhai Farms, CBNRMP Partnership
The Senior Technical Adviser to the IFAD/FGN Community Based Natural Resource Management Programme (CBNRMP) in the Niger Delta, Elder Ernest Nwogu has said that...
