Agriculture

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

Plant Tela Maize, Bt cowpea, CSO tells farmers

The executive director of Citizens Advocacy for Social and Economic Rights (CASER) and convener of Food Avail Nigeria, Barr. Frank Tietie, has called

Cassava farmers applaud variety yielding 20 tonnes per hectare

Cassava farmers in Benue State are thrilled with the prospects for their crops, expecting bumper yields this harvest season. Hundreds of them have eve

Plateau farmers get disease-resistant potato seedlings

In order to tackle the menace of the blight disease ravaging Irish potato farms in Plateau State, about 4,000 farmers from Mangu and Bokkos local gove

FG, centre build farmers’ capacity on agricultural best practices

The Centre for Dryland Agriculture (CDA), Bayero University, Kano (BUK) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security ha

CBN’s 2.15m fertiliser: Ministry yet to get locations as wet season approaches

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is yet to get the locations of the fertiliser recently donated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (C