Agriculture

The latest news on all things agriculture, rural news, and information on farming.

Farmers highlight tomato seed options as dry season production begins

As dry season farming for different crops commences in earnest in Plateau State, Tomato farmers and value chain stakeholders have expressed confidence

‘Nigeria can earn $1.2bn from cashew’

Stakeholders at the 16th African Cashew Alliance (ACA) Annual Cashew Conference recently in Abuja said the country can harvest about N507 billion (abo

Farmers in pain as flood ravages farms worth millions of naira

By Vincent A. Yusuf (Abuja), Abubakar Akote (Minna) & Magaji Isa Hunkuyi (Jalingo) Across the country, many farmers have suffered heavy losses as

‘How I started chicken business with N4,500’

Chicken roasting as a segment of the agricultural value chain has been one of the means of earning a living for a significant number of people, thus p

Cotton: Ogun allocates 10,000 hectares of land to farmers

The Ogun State governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said his administration had released over 10,000 hectares of land to cotton farmers in the state.    While