Category: Agriculture

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…

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…

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…