Posts
All Comments
Posts
All Comments
.jpeg)
" Yesterday in Nairobi, I delivered the Keynote Address at the 20th Anniversary of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa ( AGRA ) titled “A Harvest That Employs the Century: Yields, Value Chains, and the 2050 Workforce”. In it, I laid out a broad strategic agenda to improve the productivity, value chains, and governance capabilities of African agriculture.
The Managing Director ( MD) Kano State Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (KNARDA), Dr. Farouk Ahmad Kurawa has asked the farmers and pastoralists to pray for more food security interventions just as he pleaded for peaceful coexistence within the state.
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria ( AFAN) has announced with sad note the passing away of its former president, Architect Kabiru Ibrahim, just as the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Association (FACAN) also expressed sadness over the death of its former National Deputy President, late Chief Adjaroh Oghenekaro.
.jpeg)
All the membership, Federation of Agricultural Commodity Association of Nigeria (FACAN) has expressed its deep sorrow over the sudden death of the former All Farmers Association of Nigeria ( AFAN), late Architect Kabiru Ibrahim just as he was described as a person who lived his life for Agricultural development in Nigeria.
The National Food Community Bank, the pet project of Her Excellency, Chief/Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, the wife of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria is breaking ground to get nutritional foods to the poorest of the children through the established food banks already in Borno, Jigawa, Kogi and the recently inaugurated one in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
.jpeg)
As part of humanitarian support to Nigeria, the government of Thailand has donated rice valued approximately at $20,000 to address food related challenges.
.jpeg)
The three major parties, Accord, All People Conference (APC) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) have said agriculture would be given priority to ensure food security and revenue generation through employment creation with the use of modern technologies.
The Federal Government ( FG) is working out a plan to establish an agricultural mechanization plant that will be capable of producing 2,000 to 4,000 tractors in Nigeria.
Africa has been said to be spending an estimated $70 billion annually on food imports even at the expense of her great agricultural potential in research and improved innovations across the continent.
The Bank of Agriculture (BOA) in an effort to stabilize food prices for has hinted a plan to initiate a N200b post harvest interventions for price stabilization just as smart transportation will be initiated to ensure accessibility, availability and affordability of the agricultural produce.
The Agric Minister, State, Nigeria, Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has asked the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) to apply the same measure of technologies transfer in Asia and Latin America to African food security, saying this is what would quickly advance commercial food system development among the nationals in the continent.
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, State, Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has said that Nigeria is presently upscaling the use of science and technologies to drive her food value chains system beyond farmers' tables.
The National Agricultural allocations for 37 states including FCT has been reported to have had lower budgets as against 10% Maputo stipulations which Nigeria was a signatory.
The Federal Government ( FG) through the Minister of Livestock, Alhaji Idi Mukhtar Maiha has approved a new leader for National Veterinary Research Institute ( NVRI), Vom, Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology ( FCAHPT), Ibadan and Institute of Animal Health and Production ( FCAHPT), Vom.
.jpg)
.jpeg)
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ( PBAT) has approved the appointment of Engr. Julius Oloro as the new substantive Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) of National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization ( NCAM), Ilorin, Kwara state.
.jpeg)
Over 3,000 farmers from the farm settlement in Araromi-Oke-odo, Ife South Local Government Area of Osun State, staged a peaceful protest in Osogbo, calling for urgent government intervention over land grabbing, recurring attacks, and insecurity threatening their livelihoods.
.jpg)
Nigeria's farmers of the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT) chapter has demanded for the immediate release of the 6,800 fertiliser bags meant for them to grow rainy season food for year 2026.
The National Agricultural Land Development Authority ( NALDA) has told the states' government that food increase synergy would not be achievable except they made legal lands available for community agriculture development.
.jpeg)
The presidency through the Vice President's office has announced a $500 million Agricultural business development fund to diversify crude oil economy in the Niger Delta Region to food sustainable more economy earnings.
