AGRICULTURE

This crop which grows tall like corn in the tropics is used for a lot more than just meal for...

Mrs Malokwu says she had to quit tailoring for farming after losing her husband.

Asibi Gede, 55, who owns farms in Abuja says she has suffered from insecurity and feeders have destroyed her farms.

Nigeria has relied almost entirely on sugar imports for at least 30 years despite the government’s professed efforts to boost...

The proposed legislation is aimed at solving the challenge of animal identification and management by establishing the National Livestock Bureau.

Yinka Adesola is a large-scale vegetable farmer in Oyo State.

The currency rate remained unchanged on the black market.

Vendors, such as market women, don’t have food to sell. In addition, without buffer capacity in stores the cost of...

Ukachi Ogujuba is a volunteer for an agric tech firm and a smallholder farmer in Imo State.

The FAO food price index averaged 118.5 points in March, 2.1 per cent higher than in February and reaching its...

The Chief Research Officer, Cassava Research Programme at the National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike, says Nigeria's productivity is too...

Hope Isaac also speaks about farming and schooling.

The Anambra State government last year said more than 1,00 active erosion sites across the state have become a major...

The organisation also launched a report on the various factors affecting farmer’s productivity in the region.

Nigeria's per capita consumption of milk is 8 litres per year compared with the global average of 44 litres of...

Nigeria generates an average of $1,400 per metric tonne of sesame exported.

Eheduru-Onyejekwe, the co-owner of Mozani farms, also speaks about the challenge posed by herders.

Mr Buhari says the revolution of rice production across the country is the product of his administration’s clear-sighted policy on...

Fertilizer producers say from three blending plants operating at 40 per cent capacity in 2016, Nigeria today has 44 fertilizer...

The researchers say crisis in Nigeria’s Benue valley has led to deaths, loss of livelihoods, displacements and disruption of states’...

The bill will have to be approved by the House and signed by the president to become law.

Other countries identified by the report are Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, The Sudan and Syria...

Ogochukwu Maduako, owner of I farm, You Eat, shares his experience how she quit an oil service job to build...

“We must lay our cards very well, if not we can become slaves in our country.’’