News Report

Bank expects electricity grids of 14 ECOWAS countries to be connected by 2020.

NITDA said the jobs will be created through the National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture project.

Joshua Olaoye’s other designs include melon shelling, cowpea threshing and sugarcane juice extracting machines.

Nigeria routinely imports sheep and cattle from neighbouring Niger Republic

“If the borders are our problem despite the presence of control posts and officers paid to man such posts, let it be closed for eternity.”

While the perennial herders-farmers crisis has subsided in recent months, vegetable farmers in the federal capital say the problem remains and complain about the lack of attention from the government.

“If you are to sell the Bank of Agriculture now, you have to look at some portfolios.”

The senator also asks the CBN to transfer the Anchor Borrowers Programme to the agriculture ministry.

“The border closure is a right step in the right direction because it is already increasing wealth among farmers.”

The company said it is committed to “preventing and eliminating” child labour in its supply chain based on relevant local and international laws and conventions.

141 of the 416 grazing reserves across Nigeria with a total of 3.4 million hectares of land have been gazetted for the exercise, says an official.

CBN says its intervention in agriculture and manufacturing is targeted at improving local production of rice, fish, sugar and wheat.

80 women picked from across the six geo-political zones are p[articipating in the project.

The global agency announced this on Tuesday in Abuja.

A senior rice specialist at the Africa Rice Centre explains what the government can do to reduce cost.

The donkey bill was passed by the House on Thursday.

The 16-strong shortlist was announced today in Cape Town, South Africa.

The experts said Africa needs to treat agriculture as a business.

President Muhammadu Buhari had on August 28 at the Seventh Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD7) in Japan said the closure was due to massive smuggling activities, especially of rice at the country’s borders.

The Declaration was made Tuesday at the 2nd Ministerial Conference of the Adaptation of African Agriculture Initiative (AAA)

The minister said the measure has created more jobs, not only in rice production but also livestock and other commodities

“The bumper harvest the rice farmers have recorded this rainy season will bring down the price…”