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The federal government would also acquire 100,000 hectares of land in each state for food production

The leaders of the community have asked the company to vacate their land in the interest of peace, alleging that...

The index tracks international prices of the most commonly traded food commodities.

Nine million people are already in the first phase of the food crisis, which runs from October 2020 to December...

The proposal is still the highest when inflation is discounted to give its real value, but amongst the lowest when...

Food processing is the sector with the most number of manufacturing jobs in West Africa.

''We will ban importation milk in this country because we have 25 million cows in this country, we consume 5...

The AFAN national president said the items purportedly to be launched by the minister, along with three other ministers, are...

The MOU is on a project awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to IITA in May to transform Nigeria's...

"Millions of people are threatened with hunger and malnutrition due to the socio-economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The man posed as the owner of thousands of day-old chicks lost in Imo State weeks ago.

"Our farmers can now be able to identify the different cassava varieties."

The official said the development is at variance with the 10 per cent agreed upon by African Heads of State...

Mr Onu bemoaned the misfortune of post-harvest losses in the country’s agricultural sector, adding that the ministry will support the...

Mr Umar said that Nigeria should pay more attention to agriculture, to fast track the revival of the nation’s economy.

The Product is expected to protect farmers from bad weather risks and losses.

The Imo State government said it hopes such incident does not reoccur.

The agency fears that more people will die of the economic impact of COVID-19 than the virus.

Food prices rose the highest in Ogun State.

Nigeria has seen double digits food inflation for more than three years.

The 2020 Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) concludes that improved urban food system governance and performance can create new opportunities...

Farmers can now buy at a subsidised rate.

The Food Price Index report said average prices were 96.1 points in August, up 2.0 per cent from the previous...

Four companies have been granted permission to import 262,000 tons of the cereal

The suspects, including a 16-year-old, were arrested with 1,522 bags of foreign rice, the navy said.