News Report

One of the reasons for this ban was failure on the part of Nigeria to provide sufficient documentation within the...

Biosecurity is a practice designed to prevent the introduction and spread of disease causing agents into a farm.

The farmers on Tuesday took their hoes to the museum at the Cyprian Ekwensi Centre for Art and Culture in...

The farmers are demanding a rollback of three laws relating to the farming sector that were passed by parliament in...

Nigeria officially signed the Biosafety Bill into law in 2015, making it eligible to join the league of nations already...

The number of countries planting biotech crops on the continent has grown from three in 2018 to six in 2019.

Binta Mukhtar, who can only crop part of her 73 hectares farm, says "farming is a very expensive venture"

The authority would make available the rabbits, cage, vaccine and training for the youths free.

AFAN says farmers in the north "are now very scared to go to their farms to do dry season farming".

President Buhari says he has given the military all the necessary support to defeat Boko Haram.

The president of the poultry association is asking the government to intervene in the high cost of grains

Over three billion people live in agricultural areas with high to very high levels of water shortages - FAO.

The policy was established in order to ensure that beneficiaries of the facility have increased output so as to be...

Young Africa Works project is part of a strategy to enable 30 million young people in Africa to access dignified...

The IT agency says leveraging on digital technologies and innovations will attract youthful population into agricultural sector.

The minister said antibiotics use in agriculture has consequences on human health, animal health, plant health and food safety.

"At least 700,000 people die each year due to drug resistant diseases."

Experts believe that the Nigerian government will once again offer lip service to the plight of smallholder farmers who are...

The academy, if implemented, will be the first of its kind in the country.

The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) has introduced the National Transit Insurance Scheme (NATIS) and National Anti-Multiple Taxation Scheme (NAMTAXS)...

According to the guidelines, the Private Sector-Led Accelerated Agriculture Development Scheme shall be funded from the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP).

The FAO's Food Outlook is a biannual publication focusing on developments affecting global food and feed markets.

The Governor said that profit is the first thing in any business, saying that once profit is not made, investment...

Despite its huge coconut consumption record, Nigeria buys the bulk of its coconuts from Ghana and Ivory Coast, and ranks...

The proposed budget for the agricultural sector is less than two per cent of the 2021 budget.