Agriculture

Abuja, May 8, 2025 – The federal government has signed a $158.15 million financing agreement for the Value Chain Programme in Northern Nigeria (VCN) to revolutionise the nation’s agriculture sector. The implementation of the project is to begin immediately to support agriculture value chain development in nine states in the North with the signing of the agreement. The project support value addition for farmers The initiative is co-funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Government of Nigeria. Vice-President Kashim Shettima, who …

Birnin Kebbi, April 4, 2025 – Mr. Eric Opoku, the Minister of Food and Agriculture in Ghana, says Ghana is seeking partnership with Kebbi State of Nigeria to boost its food production. He said the new administration in Ghana was seeking the partnership to find solutions to food production challenges in the country. The minister said this in Birnin Kebbi at the weekend during a courtesy call on Sen. Umar Abubakar Tafida, the Deputy Governor of Kebbi State.   He said Ghana had fertile land and abundant water to support …

Ibadan, May 2, 2025 – The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Oyo state, has supported 70 young farmers in the state who were trained in Agriculture. They were trained under Youth-in-Agribusiness (YAS), a model designed to combat widespread youth unemployment and foster self-employment in agriculture. The young farmers, who came from various local government areas of Oyo state, were presented with multimillion naira worth of inputs and farming equipment.  The equipment included solar irrigation system, rotary slashers, defeathering machine, stems of improved cassava varieties, fertilizers, Gaari fryers, water …

Abeokuta, April 13, 2025 – Ogun State Government has officially flagged cassava harvest on 80 hectares of farmland at Ifonyintedo in Ipokia Local Government Area. The initiative is part of the Ogun State Economic Transformation Project (OGSTEP) to boost agricultural production in the state and improve livelihood of farmers. Simbo Olayinka, the Project Communications Officer, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.  Dapo Abiodun, the State Governor, who spoke on the initiative, said the intervention was designed to enhance food security and economically empower farmers in the state. “The farmland, …

Washington, March 22, 2025 – United States is importing Turkish and South Korean eggs to ease an avian flu-fueled supply crunch that has pushed up prices across the country, Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary confirmed Friday. Brooke Rollins told reporters in Washington that imports from Turkey and South Korea had already begun and that the White House was also in talks with other countries about temporarily importing their eggs. “We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term,” she added. The cost of eggs has skyrocketed …

Abuja, March 9, 2025 – The Democratic Front (TDF) has described the recent drop in food prices across the country as a reflection of the success of government efforts to stem the tide of food inflation. In a statement signed by its Chairman Mallam Danjuma Muhammad and Secretary, Chief Wale Adedayo, the group noted that the drop in food prices was a confirmation of its belief in the ongoing reforms. TDF said: “We receive the heartwarming news about the significant drop in food prices across Nigeria as the beginning of …

Accra, March 8, 2025 – Oro Oil Ghana Limited, the largest exporter of palm oil to Nigeria, has sealed a 10-year partnership deal with Nigerian investors to upscale production potential and expand into other markets. The initiative among other things, aims to reduce reliance on traditional methods, boost smallholder farmers’ income and set up Ghana as a major player in the palm oil industry on the continent. CEO of Oro Oil Ghana Limited, Maxwell Commey, said that the decline in Ghana’s production levels is due to the lack of support …

Abuja, Feb. 6, 2025 – Jibrin Barau, the Deputy Senate President on Thursday unveiled a N2.79 billion agriculture loan scheme for farmers across the 186 local government areas in the North-West geo-political zone of the country. Barau, representing the Kano North Senatorial District, said 69 farmers each from Kaduna and Sokoto states would benefit from the initiative, while 132 from Kano, 63 from Kebbi, 102 from Katsina, 81 from Jigawa and 42 from Zamfara would benefit from the loan scheme. He said the project, which would start in April, planned …