The Federal Government has threatened to shut some, Idiroko land borders if the smuggling of rice continues from neighbouring countries. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria CBN , Mr. Godwin Emefiele has said that the apex bank has granted Valentine poultry farms, a subsidiary of Shonga Farms...
Contrary to insinuations about the unwillingness of farmers to pay up their loans, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says farmers who accessed under its Anchor...
International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, reaffirms conquering hunger through agriculture in the rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. This was stated by the President, IFAD, Gilbert...
The Technical Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cynthia Mosunmola Umoru has said that there is an enormous opportunity in the Agricultural sector...
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US $3.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide desperately needed food assistance to...
The food security and youth employment goals of the federal government got a major boost with the setting up of a rice processing mill with 120,000...
A tripartite agreement spare headed by the Dangote Rice limited to create jobs for 16,000 outgrower rice farmers in Sokoto was yesterday signed amid excitement and...
Banks (DMBs) operating in the country are now to contribute 5 per cent of their annual Profit After Tax to an Agriculture Development Fund, that will...
Moved by the need to enhance affordability of food prices across country, the Buhari administration has constituted a Presidential Task Force to urgently consider measures that...
The Minister of National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, presented details of the federal government 2017 Budget in Abuja, yesterday, with a call on Nigerians not...
Nigeria Government at the weekend said that annual fish demand deficit stands at 2.1 million metric tonnes as the country imports the short fall from Europe...
The Bankers Committee said that banks will contribute about N30 billion of their profit after tax in a newly created Agriculture/Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) fund,...
THE Acting Managing Director of Bank of Industry, BOI Waheed Olagunju, yesterday against moves by the Senate to disband it following plans to establish National Development...
Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday in Yenagoa said that a 50 kg bag of Nigeria rice is selling in Ebonyi for N8000. This fact was disclosed...