2022 Flood: NAERLS reports N700 billion damages on food security

The National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS) has submitted an official report which reveals about Seven Hundred billion naira (N700B) as being lost to 2022 flood incidences in food system of agriculture alone. 

Images speak as NAERLS presents 2022 Flood reports in Abuja

 

Images speak as NAERLS presents 2022 Flood reports in Abuja

2023 planting: IAR boss recommends May, June to farmers

The Executive Director (ED), Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR)Prof. Mohammed Ishiaku has recommended later parts of May, and early June as suitable periods for the planting of cereal and legume crops respectively in the Savanna area of Nigeria.

Varietal chairman commends Premier, NIHORT for tomato varieties, one other release

Premier Seed Nigeria Limited, a first famous indigenous seed company has recently received a pat on the back along with National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) for being able to bring for documentation and release of two different tomato varieties after a very long while in the history of crops varietal release in the country, just as one yellow hybrid maize fortified with pro-vitamin A was also approved for registration and release for the company.

Lake Chad releases 3 millet varieties, promises more to farmers, says ED

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.

Interior Minister calls for weather gardens in schools

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.

Premier seed MD promises farmers availability with unchanged prices

The new Managing Director (MD) Premier Seeds Nigeria Limited, Mr. Ibitoye Oyewale Olumide has assured farmers of improved seeds availability with affordable prices towards rainy season plantings.

Lack of policy aids Governors' disregard for Agric extension, says NAERLS boss

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).

Coconut election: Okoroji , others emerge, woo Nigerians into COSIN

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.

2023 SCP predicts early rainfall, food increase, pockets of flood, says NiMet DG

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.