FG: Farmers to get four million fertilizers before end of the year

FG: Farmers to get four million fertilizers before end of the year

The Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) will deliver 4 million bags of 50kg Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium (NPK) fertilizer to farmers, at an affordable price, before the end of the year.  Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), Mallam...
read more
Tolaram Group to invest $50m in Edo

Tolaram Group to invest $50m in Edo

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has taken his job creation and investment drive to Singapore, where arrangements are being fine tuned to attract a $50million worth of investment to the state.    The proposed investment is in...
read more
Obaseki in Indonesia, explains commercial oil palm production agenda

Obaseki in Indonesia, explains commercial oil palm production agenda

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, is currently in Indonesia to “deepen his administration’s partnership with the Asian country, in a bid to revamp the agricultural sector and reposition the state as the oil palm capital of Nigeria”....
read more
Edo rehabilitates fertilizer plant, to ‘disrupt’ importation

Edo rehabilitates fertilizer plant, to ‘disrupt’ importation

The Edo State Government and WACOT Limited will receive the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo, on Tuesday, August 29, 2017, to commission the Edo State Fertilizer and Chemical Company Limited (ESFCCL) located in Auchi, Edo State.   The Edo Fertilizer...
read more
IITA-CWMP signs agreements with 136 farmers

IITA-CWMP signs agreements with 136 farmers

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture led Cassava Weed Management Project (IITA-CWMP) has commenced signing of agreements for the setting up of 136 demonstration plots with farmers across four states in Nigeria.   The  for states are Abia, Ben...
read more
Researchers deploy SAH technology to speed up multiplication of cassava planting materials

Researchers deploy SAH technology to speed up multiplication of cassava planting materials

Scientists working on cassava breeding are now using the Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH) technology to rev up the propagation of clean cassava planting materials.  The SAH involves the use of modified soil which holds plant roots in planting pots with litt...
read more
Sovereign Wealth Fund Resuscitates 11 Fertilizer Blending Firms

Sovereign Wealth Fund Resuscitates 11 Fertilizer Blending Firms

The Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), also known as the Sovereign Wealth Fund, has resuscitated 11 fertilizer blending plants across the country, which substantially brought down the price of fertilizer, ended fertilizer subsidy and ensured th...
read more
Nigeria to inaugurate $700,000 capacity development facility for youth agripreneurs

Nigeria to inaugurate $700,000 capacity development facility for youth agripreneurs

Nigeria will on Monday 24 July, 2017 inaugurate $700,000 youth training facility comprising two major training rooms that can sit conveniently 50 trainees each.     Funded by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and IITA, the facility s...
read more
FG explores new areas of collaboration with IITA

FG explores new areas of collaboration with IITA

Research being conducted by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in seed yam multiplication holds promise and could help Nigeria to quadruple yam production, says Nigeria’s Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe...
read more
Ogbeh: No need to panic over non-availability of yams for Nigerians

Ogbeh: No need to panic over non-availability of yams for Nigerians

There is no need to panic about the non-availability of yams for Nigerians to consume. There has never been shortage of yams in Nigeria. Over 30% of the yams we produce in Nigeria rot away. Export therefore provides opportunities to...
read more
Photo Caption

Photo Caption

Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman (3rd left), the Minister, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh (2nd left), Deputy Governor of Benue State, Engr. Benson Abounu and other dignitaries a...
read more
Nigeria explains availability of yams for local consumption as export to Europe begins

Nigeria explains availability of yams for local consumption as export to Europe begins

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has assured Nigerians that “There is no need to panic about the possible non-availability of yams for local consumption” as export begins.    According to the Minister, “There has neve...
read more
Heritage Bank: Our support for Agro-business funding cuts across the entire value chain

Heritage Bank: Our support for Agro-business funding cuts across the entire value chain

Heritage Bank Plc has reiterated its commitment to further deepen the drive to support agribusiness value chain in order to fast track food security and sufficiency in the country. The MD/CEO of the bank, Mr Ifie Sekibo, who disclosed this,...
read more
‘How to tackle unemployment in Africa through Agriculture’

‘How to tackle unemployment in Africa through Agriculture’

Developing creative messages/methods that would attract young people to agriculture could help Africa to attract youth to agriculture and end the rising unemployment in the continent, Deputy Director General, Partnership for Delivery, International Institute o...
read more
1 23 24 25 26 27 29