Cross River Showcases Agricultural Achievements

Cross River State ( CRS) is doing the best in her capacity to bring Agriculture back to its lost glory through a quiet number of proactive repositioning to attain  food sustainability for local consumption and export.

16th Agric Show: Stakeholders call FG on pressing challenges"

Stakeholders at the recently concluded 2024 National Agricultural Show have urged the Federal Government ( FG) to immediately address the numerous challenges confronting the sector.

Presidency to proactively drive Agric sector with centralized data

The office of the Vice president, Federal Republic of Nigeria has set in motion a centralized data platform that will enhance pragmatic decisions to be quickly taken for food security in the country.

Nigeria launches seeds portal, plant protection regulation

*Promises farmers'  training 

The Nigerian Government has stepped up her seeds productivity system as she launched a portal in order to track and protect the quality of all released seeds varieties with breeders' protection regulation just as farmers were promised  of better training in the use of the new technologies.

2024 Agric Show: Stakeholders Flock Exhibition Ground, Preparations in Full Swing for Tomorrow's Opening Ceremony

The excitement is building up as stakeholders in the agricultural sector from across Nigeria are already arriving at the exhibition ground, gearing up for the highly anticipated Agric Show 2024. 

FAO warns against zero hunger, 33 million Nigerians facing food deficit

As effort towards zero hunger for the year 2030 is facing challenges in about five years to go, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) representative to Nigeria, Mr. Kofi Dominick has alerted that stakeholders must show more concerns to achieve the targets, just as he pointed out the 33 million Nigerians being affected by food deficit as a result of rising prices.

Nigeria imports $1.2B fish annually for 2.5m deficit, says ActionAid

Nigeria’s fish import bill stands at a staggering $1.2 billion annually, a situation exacerbated by a 2.5 million-tons deficit in local fish production by ActionAid Nigeria.

ATASP supports Nigeria wheat production with improved seeds, says Nat. Coordinator

The office of Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program Phase 1 ( ATASP-1) has released 2, 500 metric of improved wheat seed variety to support the expansion of the produce in Nigeria.

Editorial: Using Agric Value Chains for Economic Growth

Our crave to be a food secured nation will be in vain except will passionately deplore the value chains Agricutural model into driving the sector in an holistic manner for every economic crops and livestock productivity.

Cross River sets to launch cereal productivity

Cross River State is set to launch a cereal grain productivity leveraging on fertile soil with favourable climate conditions, said, Agric Commissioner, Mr. Johnson Ebokpo.