Agriculture

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

Information wheat farmers need on production

Wheat is one of the most important raw materials used in Nigeria for bread and cake (85-99%), Semovita (10%), biscuits (about 4%), pasta (below 1%) an

NALDA kick-starts campaign on growing vegetables, distributes seeds

The National Agricultural Land Development Agency has flagged off its ‘grow your vegetables’ campaign with 200 farmers in Abuja. Speaking at the train

AATF launches foundation seed entity to bridge seed gap

The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) Wednesday in Abuja launched ECOBasic Seed to produce breeder and foundation seeds to bridge dema

What must be done for smooth agro export

For many years, Nigeria has continued to face various export rejections on many of the country’s agricultural commodities. Some of these commodities a

70,000 smallholder farmers trained on dairy management

As part of efforts towards increasing local milk production in Nigeria, over 70,000 smallholder dairy farmers in Kano State have been trained during a