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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.

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.”