Agriculture

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

Scientist to gov’t: Improve cotton production, grant stimulus to shelve distraction

A soil scientist at the Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR) Samaru, Zaria, Professor Ado Yusuf, has advocated the improvement of National Cotton

High cost of sugar: Businesses resort to use of sweeteners in Kano

The recent hike in sugar has forced many businesses to resort to the use of different forms of laboratory made sweeteners as sugar has become unafford

Ondo cocoa farmers lose farmlands, allege threat to lives

Scores of cocoa farmers in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State have alleged attacks on their lives by armed guards working under the instructio

Farmers to Tinubu: Move anchor borrowers programme from CBN to agric ministry

The APC Agric Stakeholders and the Agricultural Commodity Associations have appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to move the Anchor Borrowers’ Prog

‘Nigeria lost 60% of poultry farmers in one year’

  The General Manager of Obasanjo Farms, Dr Ariyo Eyitayo Olusegun, has said over 60 per cent of poultry farmers in Nigeria have quit the busines