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Notore also unveiled the ISO 9001: 2015 certification.

About 26 states benefitted from the programme.

“Registration has commenced all over the country,” an official said.

Releaf aims to map out Nigerian agriculture in its entirety over the next 12 months.

The plant has a production capacity of 4,000 metric tons of nitrogenous fertilizer per day.

“We really need to guard against the undue exploitation of our resources by these Asian countries.”

The acting president said research was not enough if it was not marketed for universal application.

The new breed produces up to about 200 eggs annually compared to 65 produced by local breed.

Nigeria has kicked off export of yam.

The government also initiated the National Quality Infrastructure Project, NQIP.

The drop in rice import by about two million tons since the devaluation led to higher demand of cassava food...

Mr. Ogbeh said that Nigeria was under great pressure to export roasted cashew nuts to Japan.

“We want to eradicate these diseases in our animals, especially the PPR in sheep and goats,” an official said.

Eighteen fertilizer blending plants will be operational in 2018.

Farmers blamed the continued devastation by army worms of maize crop on the increase.

About 72 tonnes of yam will be exported in the first phase of the programme to the United Kingdom.

At the time of the visit, tractors and a handful of local people were working on the farm.

Over a 31-year existence, the award has become known as the 'Nobel Prize' for food and agriculture.

“The effect of the avian influenza attack on poultry farms was devastating,” an official said.

The finance minister visited the IITA to assess the project there.

"We believe that if Nigerians eat the rice grown locally in the country, the government would have saved huge resources…”

In 2015, Governor Rauf Aregbesola donated a piece of land measuring about 205.5 hectares to IITA.

“We have a genuine desire and interest in ensuring that we achieve food security in Nigeria.”

There is ready market for the produce, an official says.

The minister provided various reasons for the price difference between imported and local rice.