Insecurity: Farmers look up to security forces as season begins
The president told the service chiefs “to go out into the field and secure the country” in order to build farmers’ confidence to return to farmlands.
Agriculture
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Ending Nigeria’s herder-farmer crisis: The Livestock Reform Plan
Approved by the National Economic Council in January 2019, the Plan represents the most comprehensive effort to overhaul Nigeria’s inefficient and gro
Farmers apprehensive as planting season begins with erratic rains
In the 2019/2020 wet season, erratic rains in the North and mid-season draught in the South-West made farmers lose their money due to crop failure.
Despite huge deposit, Nigeria spends millions on barite import
Despite abandoned barite deposit in Nigeria, the country still spends about $29.9 million to import 13,000 tonnes of the mineral resources annually to
Kwara subsidizes inputs for 10,000 farmers, to partner Lagos on rice production
Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has launched an agricultural input subsidy scheme that will give 10,000 farmers access to various inputs a