Tag: women in agriculture

The initiative will enhance productivity, and expand women’s participation in both local and international markets.

Weyinmi Eribo is the Director-General of the Women Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture (WCCIMA)

To prioritise unleashing women’s economic power, we need to reform our policies to position women at the heart of decision ...

The women pleaded in separative interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos.

Theresa Odu runs Odu Farms in Abuja but says she is constrained by financial and labour shortages

The food processor, a retired civil servant, asks the government to give women farmers grants, not loan.

Joy Itamah, who grows crops and rears goats in Oyo State, has a difficult experience with Nigeria's perpetually poor power ...

A computer science student who has been at home due to lecturers' long strike says she has found something profitable ...

Ada Osakwe is the chief executive officer of Agrolay Ventures, an agribusiness investment company based in Lagos, which invests in ...

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

Juliana Achimugu cultivates rice and maize on her one and a half hectare of land.

Theresa Paul, who farms in Abuja, says she faces other challenges as a farmer.

"I started raising capital in my university days as a student. I was working and saving but I never knew ...

Rebecca Isaac, a cassava and beans farmer, gets inputs, chemicals and even labour on credit.

Ruth Suberu, a graduate of History and International Relations from Lagos State University, says she wants inputs and machines for ...

Namoi Yusuf of Nasarawa State says the government needs to act fast to save small-scale farmers from hunger amid growing ...

Bolanle Titilola says she lost about N15 million and could not recover it.

Olubunmi Agbato processes fish into 10 products which has attracted international grants.

A smallholder farmer in Abuja says the government needs to do more to help food production.

Aishat Titilola, 29, runs TAD Farms in Oyo State where she breeds and processes livestock.

Mira Mehta runs the promising firm that has received $10 million worth of investment.

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

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

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

Modupe Oyetosho started with five acres but has now grown to 5000 acres.