Gender

Mercy Nnanna says rural women farmers should be given loans at single digit interest

Mrs Isarah says big farmers hide information on market, fertiliser and quality seeds from smallholder farmers

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

Janet Jiya says her land is good but lack of capital is keeping her from expanding her farm.

Women in the agricultural sector contribute 75 -80 per cent of the production in Nigeria.

Women in the agricultural sector contribute 75 -80 per cent of the production in Nigeria.

"In reality, we perform more than (male farmers) from production to processing"

The speaker said increase in budgetary allocation to agriculture in the sub-region will help boost food security thus reducing food...

"Chinese are merely ripping us. We have to desist from flipping licences to them."

80 women picked from across the six geo-political zones are p[articipating in the project.

The official said it is time for women to be prominent in the agricultural sector.

The winners will benefit from a two-year career-development program.

By Peter Jopke For Susan Godwin, this nation’s role model female farmer, honour came with a sense of irony. At...