The Executive Director (ED) Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI), Prof. Baba Gana Kabir has promised to continually ensure that farmers across all the ecologies of the country have access to all the newly released millet varieties of the Institute to achieve availability of well-fortified nutritious food in commercial quantities to checkmate import bill and create good health and wealth for Nigerian people.
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The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has in the 2023 Seasonal Climate Predictions (SCP) called on the Government to revive schools' weather garden across the country to create awareness of climate change negative effects on farmlands, properties and human lives.
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The National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS), Executive Director (ED) Prof. Emmanuel Ikani has attributed lack of extension policy to why states' Governors are not funding officials in this department, saying the document to achieve it was still pending in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ( FMARD).
The election into executive positions
of the National Coconut Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of
Nigeria (NACOPPMAN) has re-elected Amb. Okoroji, Nma Okechukwu for another four
years along with 15 others just as business investors were hosted to dinner to
showcase the potential of the produce for health and wealth creations.The Federal Government (FG) through the Nigerian Meteorological Agency ( NiMet) Director General( DG)/ CEO, Prof. Mansur Bako Mutazu has predicted early rainfall in some parts of the country with friendly agricultural weather to increasing food production as some pockets of flash flood incidences should be expected.
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The Federal Government (FG) constituted Committee on naming, registration and release of crop varieties has approved six improved tomato seeds and fifteen other crops for commercial release to farmers.
The Federal Government (FG) through National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Ibadan, Oyo state has commenced training of the nation’s youths in vegetables production in both low and uplands with irrigation applications for round the year planting.
Contrary to many people’ thinking, the World Bank- Nigeria Covid-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-Cares) assisted program of $ 750 million assigned to states government through their Governors to cushion the effect of 2020 pandemic disease on the human livelihood in the rural areas has been said not to replace the Fadama project which had closed down officially.
