The year 2016 will be very busy for farmers and agriculturists in Ogun state going by special interventions coming from...
A total of N746 billion worth of agricultural products was imported into the country in the third quarter of 2015,...
Bank of Industry (BoI) has injected $3 billion investment funds into Nigeria’s sugar industry as part of effort to promote...
Mohammed Maifata, chairman, Umza International Farms Limited, has denied the involvement of his company in smuggling of rice through land...
Eric Umeofia is chief executive officer of Erisco Foods Limited. Umeofia tells JOSEPHINE OKOJIE, in this interview, that the foreign...
As part of efforts to shift focus of youths from white collar jobs to agriculture, agribusiness as well as to...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has applauded the World Bank for allocating $500 Million for the rehabilitation of irrigation...
Professor Peter Okuneye, a renowned researcher and scholar in the field of agricultural and environmental economics at the Federal University...
The Federal Government is reviewing the recent lifting of restrictions on rice importation by the Nigerian Customs Service, with a...
Mali has produced 2,451,321 tonnes of rice as it approaches the end of the 2015/16 harvest, up 13 percent from...
One of the greatest problems confronting rural farmers and communities in Nigeria is the absence of critical infrastructure such as...
Rice farmers in Emigi, Katcha local government area of Niger State have begun the harvest of rice produced using bio-fertilizers...
Pearl Universal Impex Limited, an Indian company, has invested over $100 million in rice farming in Niger State. The investment...
As part of efforts to ensure adequate food security in Southwest states and increase Nigerian gross domestic product, the Ogun...
Following the dwindling crude oil price and its negative effect on Nigeria’s economy, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), an...