Food Security: Terror attacks threaten maize production, farmers warn

Mrs Kikelomo Chibeze, the Project Manager, VET-Toolbox, has said that the organisation alongside with Julius Berger Plc would orgnise pilot training programmes for 1,000 cashew farmers in the country. Chibeze said this at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja, adding that the beneficiaries would be trained with the sole aim of the growth of the sector. She said that the training would also include factory workers to tackle some of the challenges bedeviling local processing industry of the Raw Cashew Nut (RCN). The project manager listed some of the challenges facing the sector to include low RCN quality, weak…

A cashew nut processing expert, Mr Pankaj Chawla, says aging trees remain the major challenge to cashew nut business, both for local consumption and export purposes in Nigeria. Chawla, who is the Country Representative of Valency International Agro Limited, said this on Wednesday at a training for Wild Organic Cashew Nuts Farmers/Producers and Marketers for Export Intentions, in Enugu State, said that, most cashew trees in the country are between 30 and 40 years old, adding that most of them had been caught up with aging attributes and signs. According to him, the yield of the cashew tree keeps decreasing…

22/3/22. Import/PMB President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that Nigeria will stop dependence on imported agricultural products. He made the declaration in Lagos at the inauguration of Dangote Fertilizer Plant, which has an installed capacity of 3.0 million metric tonnes of Urea per annum. The President noted that the plant would further advance Nigeria’s drive towards achieving self-sufficiency in food production, job-creation, increasing the inflow of foreign exchange and accelerating economic growth. On other benefits of the plant, the President expressed delight that with the commencement of exports to other countries, including the United States, India, and Brazil, Nigeria was already…