Agriculture

Addis Ababa, July 28, 2025 – Nigeria is deploying modern technology like artificial intelligence, geospatial analytics and satellite-based climate tools to transform its agriculture and achieve food security. Vice-President Kashim Shettima disclosed this in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday during the United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4). “We are deploying these tools to monitor production, enhance transparency, connect producers to markets and reduce waste across the value chain.” “The Fourth Industrial Revolution has not only disrupted the old order but gifted us instruments that were once confined to imagination. …

Abuja, July 18, 2025 – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Muhammad Babangida, the son of the former military President, as chairman of the revamped Bank of Agriculture. President Tinubu approved the appointment today, along with eight others who are to serve as chairmen or directors-general of Federal agencies. Muhammad Babangida, 53, is an alumnus of the European University in Montreux, Switzerland, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Public Relations and Business Communication. He later attended Harvard Business School’s Executive Program on …

Brasilia, July 7, 2025 – President Bola Tinubu says the federal government will remove all bottlenecks hindering the realisation of Nigeria’s potential in agriculture. He said this would facilitate food sovereignty, food export and livestock production. Tinubu made the promise during a bilateral meeting held at the Copacabana Forte with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and some members of both countries’ cabinets. He said Nigeria was already undergoing reforms to reposition the economy for global competitiveness, particularly in agriculture, where it already has a competitive advantage. Tinubu said …

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 …