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The government says farmers have been exploited by middlemen who buy cheap yet drive prices high.

An official says the present administration’s efforts at diversifying the economy is yielding the desired results.

The farm will produce 5,000 broilers per week and 3,679,200 eggs a year.

The environmental group calls on the National Assembly to include that provision in the constitution.

Most of the trespassers are Chinese fleets that hamper the activities of artisanal fishers.

In December 2021, the company sealed a similar deal with the Enugu State Government to boost rice production.

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 135.7 points in January 2022, 1.1 per cent higher than in December 2021.

Fishers target increasing local production from 1.1 million metric tonnes to meet the annual national consumption requirement of 3.5 million...

“This is a 25.8 per cent increment, when compared to 3,172 containers of cocoa exported in 2020 during the same...

The N1.4 billion will be used to procure equipment and agricultural inputs for the National Youth Farmers' Scheme.

The fall was led by vegetable oil and sugar.

Available data suggest the country improved marginally in the production of key food in 2021.

Nigeria’s performance in 2019, the study year, was still worse than two years earlier.

The rice mill has been built with a capacity to produce 2.8 million bags of 50kg bags of rice yearly

The deal also involves expanding the rice firm into a Staple Crop Processing Zone.

Rice farmers said bumper harvest was possible through their use of improved seedlings, which boosted their production by about 25...

Benin Republic is considering providing 30,000 hectares of farmland to Labana for rice production.

Developing regions account for 40 per cent of the total and their food import bill is expected to rise by...

Higher international prices and freight rates will combine to propel the cost of importing food to USD 1.75 trillion in...

The rise, the highest since July 2011, was led by vegetable oil and cereals.

Despite the government's professed commitment to sustainable projects, findings have shown that some of the identified projects implemented under the...

Juliana Achimugu cultivates rice and maize on her one and a half hectare of land.

The group cites a widening gulf between buyers’ demand and availability of produce to meet them.

The organic agriculture system brings some benefits for human health and the environment, according to the Association of Organic Agriculture...

The Nigerian government is proposing just 1.8 per cent of the 2022 budget for agriculture, significantly short of the Maputo...