AGRICULTURE

A Financial Expect, Mr Moshood Adeyemi, on Thursday urged the Federal Government to strengthen the Bank of Industry (BoI) to provide low interest loans that would be easily accessible to farmers. According to him, this will boost agricultural sufficiency. Adeyemi, a Chartered Accountant and Tax Manager, in an interview with...

 Fifty-three people have been trained in snail and fish farming to tackle unemployment and food shortage in Nigeria. Mrs Grace Taiwo, Director of Communications, Xploits Consulting Ltd., an environmental and sustainability company, said the training was done by the company in partnership with Access Bank. Taiwo said in a statement...

 The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to boost productivity of its agricultural programme. The Director, Press and Public Relations, NYSC, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that the ceremony took...

 The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said that Ondo State will benefit from the 200 million dollars World Bank Livestock Productivity and Resilience Project (L- PRES). The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, made this known on Thursday in Akure, the Ondo State capital....

The Bank of Industry (BoI), African Development Bank (AfDB) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have okayed $2 billion loan to reduce poverty, end hunger and increase resilience to climate change in rural communities around Nigeria. AfDB President’s Senior Special Adviser on Industrialisation, Prof. Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, who revealed this...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, has charged no fewer than 100 women and youth graduands of the State Agripreneurship Programme to be committed to the attainment of the government’s food security goal. Olusanya stated this at the graduation ceremony of the second batch of the Lagos...

Lagos State Government has commenced the recruitment of eligible candidates for the Batches 4, 5 and 6 of Lagos Agripreneurship Programme (LAP). The initiative is under the Agriculture-based Youth Empowerment Scheme (Agric-YES). Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya made the announcement on Tuesday. Olusanya said the programme was in furtherance of...

The Maize Association of Nigeria (MAAN), Anambra chapter, has commended the Federal Government’s disbursement of inputs worth N89 million to Anambra farmers under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP). Mr Simeon Nwafor, state chairman of the association gave the commendation while speaking with the  News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)  in Onitsha...

All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Lagos East Senatorial Bye-election, Tokunbo Abiru, has commended Federal Government’s Anchor’s Borrower’s programme, aimed at achieving food security in the country. Abiru gave the commendation in a statement on Friday in Lagos in commemoration of the World Food Day. Abiru, a former Commissioner of...

      By Hawa Lawal   The Federal Government introduced the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) on Nov. 17, 2015 to boost farming activities that can result in food security, economic stability and less dependence on oil. The ABP focuses on the provision of farm inputs in kind and cash,...