Benue State grows fruits in abundance but the non-availability of processing companies and poor patronage due to Boko Haram attacks have turned fruit farmers, who should be swimming in money, into the of pittance. Johnson Babajide reports. From time, Benue has maintained its prominence of being Continue Reading
Month: May 2020
DESPITE the presence of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, farmers have been called upon not to be discouraged but instead take advantage of the new farming season for agressive planting in order to have bumper harvest at the end of the season. Making the call was the Executive Director, Continue Reading
THE Director General of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr Vincent Isegbe has announced that the government had directed his agency to resume export of agricultural produce. A statement signed in Abuja today by the Head, Media, Communications and Strategies, NAQS, Dr. Gozie Continue Reading
THE Lagos State government through one of its agencies, Lagos State Agricultural Input Supply Authority (LAISA) has hinted that it is fully prepared for the new farming season with all the necessary apparatuses readily available at all its centres spread across the state. LAISA said all its Continue Reading
The Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina, reveals the efforts of the state government under the leadership of Governor Dapo Abiodun, to make agriculture business attractive to young people, government strategy to move agriculture forward even after COVID-19 pandemic, and Continue Reading
The Enugu State Government has trained extension workers on weed management in cassava and maize farming systems in the state. The training conducted by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) through the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI), was the fallout of the Continue Reading
Stakeholders in the aquaculture sector have raised alarm of a looming food crisis, unless sound and decisive measures are taken to sustain food supply chains and to protect the poor and vulnerable communities. They noted with dismay that COVID-19 has affected the entire value chain in the Continue Reading
To avert post COVID-19 food crisis in Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been advised to embark on allocation of farmlands to real farmers, provide tractors to open up farmlands and establish a collection hub and processing centres in all the five zones of the state-Ikorodu, Epe, Continue Reading