The aqgriculture sector IS the leading employer of labour in Nigeria as it engages 32.35 million persons out• of 85.08 million that engaged in one form...
Input suppliers and off-takers under the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) in Delta have called on the state government to help facilitate payment for their supplies to...
The Rivers Enterpreneur and Investor Forum of Nigeria says it has concluded plans with European Union to make Rivers State an agriculture –rich state like the...
Notwithstanding the high exchange rate and its price, Nigeria has imported 450,000 tons of crude palm oil valued at N116.3billion ($323.1 million) since the beginning of...
A cleric, Christopher Owolabi has urged the newly elected council chairmen in Kwara State to make mechanised farming their major preoccupation. Owolabi told newsmen in Omu-Aran last...
An expert in plant genetics and lecturer in the Rivers State University, Prof. Michael Ogburia has dispelled views that Genetically Modified food (GMO) is not safe...
The Amanyanabo of Twon-Brass in Bayelsa State, King Alfred Diete-Spiff says Nigeria can be food sufficient if every family establishes small farmsteads in their neighbourhood. Diete-Spiff...
President of Oyigbo Farmers’ Cooperative Union, Mr. Christian Duru has identified poor sales as a major challenge facing local farmers. Duru who spoke to newsmen on...
The African Development Bank has denied as untrue reports that it called off loans it granted to Nigeria. The AfBD had in November, 2016, approved a...
Society for the Promotion of Human Rights, an NGO has urged the Federal Government to provide farm inputs and rural infrastructure to encourage farmers in the...