AGRICULTURE

The Federal Government says, contrary to the position of some critics, it has no hidden agenda by pursuing the National Water Resources Bill 2020 before the National Assembly. The Ministers of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Water Resources Suleiman Adamu disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at a...

    The 225 Wards of Rice Farmers Association of Kebbi State, have appealed to the Federal and State Governments, as well as the Central Bank to suspend the anchor borrower’s loan repayment until 2021 to 2022. Chairman of the association, Shehu Abubakar-Zaki, appealed Birnin Kebbi yesterday while briefing reporters...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted approval to four agro-processing companies to import 262,000 tons of maize and corn in the bid to complement an anticipated shortfall of the commodity in the country. According Premium Times, this was disclosed in an internal memo of the Nigeria Customs dated...

  The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said  that agricultural exports out of Nigeria dropped by 38.2 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) of this year, compared to the first quarter  (Q1) but rose by 6.3 per cent year-on-year while goods imported to Nigeria rose in value by...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, made this known in a statement signed by the Director of Information of the ministry, Mr Theodore Ogaziechi on Sunday in Abuja.The minister according to the statement, made this known while on a tour of Dangote Fertiliser Plant and other fertiliser...

  says programme will empower youths, expand economy of the state   The Oyo State Government, on Tuesday, approved the sum of 1.2 million US Dollars for the commencement of the Start Them Early Programme (STEP), an agribusiness initiative, in six selected secondary schools, across the six geopolitical zones in...

Central China’s Hunan Province on Wednesday opened a cocoa trading centre to connect Africa, the world’s leading cocoa producer, to China’s fast-growing appetite for chocolate. The African Cocoa Marketing Centre, established in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan, will start by selling cocoa mainly from Ghana before bringing in products...

Mr Sayina Rima, outgoing National President, Cocoa Association of Nigeria (CAN), has advocated investment of five per cent of oil revenue into cocoa production to develop the industry. Rima made the appeal on a webinar by Ships and Ports on the topic:“Maximising the Gains of Nigeria’s Cocoa Export”. According to...

Prof. Alex Akpa, Director-General, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), says within a period of one year, Nigerians should expect high yielding tomato hybrid with long shelf life in the markets. Akpa gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. According to...

Prices of potatoes have dropped in Kano metropolis amid low patronage of the produce, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports. A check by NAN at Yankura, Sabon Gari market on Thursday showed that prices of potatoes and other perishables had decreased by about 50 per cent. A big size...