The Federal Government has commenced strategies to develop cassava leaves value chain into livestock feeds to curb farmers-herdsmen clashes in the country. Chief Audu Ogbeh, the...
The Economic Community of West Africa States ECOWAS, farmers have called on Africa leaders to resist the pressure being put on them by the European Union...
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said that the country has market volume of 150,000 tonnes of tomato paste valued at N32 billion...
Former senate committee chairman on capital market, senator, Ganiyu, Olanrewaju Solomon , yesterday stated that the Federal Government need to revitalise the Abuja Securities and Commodities...
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said that 42 foreign investors from different European countries are being expected to invest in Nigeria...
Nigeria may lose up to 1.3 trillion dollars in revenues if it signs the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN) has said....
The Bank of Industry (BoI) and Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) have signed a pact to enhance financing in the agriculture sector...
Director, Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Zaria, Prof. Ibrahim Umar-Abubakar, said Nigeria’s wheat import bill stood at $6 billion annually. Umar-Abubakar said this in Zaria, Kaduna...
Massive importation of food, especially, rice, wheat, sugar and fish has continued to bleed the nation’s economy with the four items, accounting for a whooping N1...
The Federal Government is targeting to reduce the costs of its annual importation of various items into Nigeria from N9.85 trillion in 2016 to N8.79 trillion...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the replication of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) in 14 States following the success story of...
Nigeria spent about 20 million dollars (about N4 billon) on importation of jute bags in 2015, the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Hajia...
The UN Development Programme (UNDP), on Thursday, warned that Nigeria might experience food shortage, if urgent interventions were not put in place to enhance food production....
The European Union has extended its ban on importation of dried beans from Nigeria by three years. Dr Vincent Isegbe, the Coordinating Director, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine...
Coordinator of ECOWAS-initiated Rice Seed Up Scaling Programme Mr Sunday Okelola, says farmers in seven Nigerian states will be assisted to produce 60,000 metric tonnes of...