Tag: farmers

An official said the use of organic rather than chemical fertilisers meant that soil quality improved every season

President Buhari advised other African leaders despite the failure of his government to improve funding for the Nigerian agricultural sector ...

The experts said the digitalisation of extension services in Nigeria should be human-centred and that there is a need to ...

The ministry would acquire 10,000 units of tractors to kick start the programme, an official said.

“Between January 1 and January 23, we have had 268 suspected cases of Lassa Fever, 106 confirmed cases and unfortunately ...

Despite repeated promises to improve budgetary allocation, the agricultural sector has remained underfunded under Mr Buhari

Residents say attacks by suspected herders in Edo communities have forced farmers away from their farmland, with at least 15 ...

The farmers said the flooding being experienced in the state was due to the release of water by the HJRBDA.

The worst hit victims of the floods are residents of communities hosting major tributaries of the Benue River that cuts ...

"The price of diesel has gone high because the management of this country is not what it should be."

Nigeria's food inflation reached 17.2 per cent and 18.37 per cent in March and April respectively, fuelled by factors that ...

“While I am deeply honoured, humbled and grateful for all the incredible goodwill, kindness and confidence, my current responsibilities at ...

They said the boss of the country's apex bank placed priority on commodity and agricultural value chain in the country.

Securing livelihoods in Lake Chad Basin is vital for communities to resist and recover from the conflict.

The police spokesperson in the state, Lawan Adam, said the clash occurred on Friday at Magirami Bush in the area.

The group works with MasterCard to support 65,000 farmers in Nigeria, of which 80 per cent of that number must ...

The government says farmers have been exploited by middlemen who buy cheap yet drive prices high.

Governor Muhammad Badaru says the atrocities of bandits are not being recorded in Jigawa because the state has a policy ...

"This life is not fair that it is poor people like me who are being kidnapped," a farmer says.

President Buhari is unveiling rice pyramids in Abuja.

Some of the victims are still counting their losses but news of clashes between farmers and cattle herders are becoming ...

Hundreds of people are killed yearly across Nigeria in violence between herders and farming communities.

Nigeria’s performance in 2019, the study year, was still worse than two years earlier.

Over 100 residents of Tse-Poor, an agrarian rural community in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, are still licking their wounds, ...

About 300 farmers use wastewater from the Ajiwa Dam in Katsina for irrigation.