Agriculture

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

Paddy price remains high despite early wet season harvests

Melon stays at all-time low Despite the harvest of dry season rice and the beginning of the early wet season harvests  across the country, the price o

Why farmers should plant jute leaves

Jute leaves popularly known as ayoyo in Hausa and ewedu in Yoruba is cultivated in Plateau State by women who have acknowledged its health benefits. S

Katsina poultry farmers lose N216m to theft, banditry

Poultry farmers in Katsina have lost N216m as a result of banditry and theft of chickens from late last year to date, the chairman of the state chapte

Inside tilapia farm where ‘sex reversal’ is done in 4 weeks

Hope is rising for farmers looking forward to growing 1.2kg all-male (monosex) or mix-sexed tilapia in northern Nigeria. Until recently, there was no

Edo 2020: Obaseki flaunts achievements, flags off harvesting in Usugbenu farm

Edo State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 19 gubernatorial election, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has flagged-off