AGRICULTURE

A financial expert, Mr Okechukwu Unegbu, has urged the Federal Government to invest more in key infrastructure and agriculture sectors to consolidate growth in the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Unegbu, a former President, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, made the call in an interview with the News Agency...

  The Lift Above Poverty Organisation (LAPO) says it has disbursed N5.56 billion as loans to rural farmers and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) between January and April this year. A statement by Mr Wisdom Abhulimen, Head of Advocacy and Communications of the organisation, said it was parts of the LAPO...

Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc says Nigeria can earn 700 million dollars foreign exchange annually through implementation of the Backward Integration Policy (BIP)  from sugar production. Chairman, Dangote Sugar Refinery, Aliko Dangote, said this at the company’s 15th Annual General Meeting on Thursday in Lagos. Dangote said that allowing for distortions...

All is now set for the 2nd edition of the Ecobank Agribusiness and Food Security Summit organized in association with Vanguard Economic Forum Series. The primary content objective of summit is to discuss the role of technology and digitisation across the agricultural value chain. The virtual summit with the theme:...

  Amb. Lot Egopija, Consul-General of Nigeria in New York has described bee farming in as an ” untapped gold mine” in Nigeria capable of generating more than 10 billion dollars in annual revenue for the country. Egopija said this in a message to the World Bee Conference organised by...

  The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, says the apex bank plans the cultivation of one million hectares of rice in the 2021 farming seasons, to boost food security. According to information in CBN’s official Twitter handle, Emefiele made the statement while unveiling rice...

  Unity Bank Plc will provide additional funding to 120,000 smallholder maize farmers in the 2021 wet season farming under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP).The bank’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Mrs Tomi Somefun, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of...

  34,000 young graduates deployed in 8,000 LGA wards nationwide as digital farm mapping associates 6 million small-holder farmers registered & mapped to farmlands 100,000 new extension agents being trained for farmer advisory service delivery Nigeria is prioritizing innovation and technology investments in agriculture so as to transform the sector...

Mr David Ibidapo, a Senior Research Analyst at AFEX Commodities Exchange has attributed rise in food inflation in Nigeria to low levels of agricultural produce. He said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja on the continuous rise of food inflation in the...

  Dr Debo Akande, a Scientist at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, on Monday advised agricultural stakeholders to support youths  engagement in entrepreneurship and agri-business in Nigeria.This, Akande said, would be key to poverty alleviation in the country. He made the remark at the 2020/2021 annual research review...