Agriculture

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

Kogi’s 50 tons per day capacity rice mill ready soon

  …prepares 800 hectares of rice plantation to feed mill   The over N4billion Kogi rice milling plant with the capacity of producing 50 tons of r

Group petitions Audu Ogbe, Adamu over members’ extortion in Benue

A group known as the Federated Food Stuff Dealers Association of Nigeria (FFSDAN) has called on the minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbe, to quick

Why access to farm inputs is declining

For many smallholder farmers, access to quality farm inputs is declining and several factors are responsible. Issues around the cost of inputs, insecu

400,000 farmers to go into sorghum production this year

…as farmers target 5 million metric tons   Pour hundred thousand sorghum famers are to be mobilized for this year’s wet season farming. National

Despite Ramadan, Sokoto records glut in millet, beans

Grain dealers in Sokoto State are experiencing a glut despite the commencement of the Holy month of Ramadan and they attribute it to delay in the paym