Dr Forster Ihejiofor, Commissioner For Agriculture In Anambra State, has said, Following high cost of food items across the nation, he predicted better days ahead if farmers and teeming population will harken to call for massive cultivation of land. Dr Ihejiofor, who was speaking with newsmen on food scarcity in his office, noted that the current…
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, said yesterday that the database of farmers benefiting from agricultural intervention programmes of the federal government was corrupt and politicized. He said many beneficiaries of the funds did not have a square metre of agricultural land anywhere in Nigeria. He also lamented that the naira redesign…
The National Economic Council on Thursday announced plans to channel at least $1.52bn donor funds into 36 special agro-industrial processing zones across the nation, aiming to create over 18.1 million jobs, including 100,000 farmers nationwide. The first phase, which now runs in Kano, Kaduna, Kwara, Ogun, Oyo, Imo, Cross River states as well as the…
