Agriculture

Some yam and plantain sellers in Lagos on Sunday decried the multiple levies they were subjected to in the process of bringing agricultural produce from other states to the city for sale.

By Udo Onyeka The Federal Government is shopping for $1.1billion to implement the Nigeria-Brazil Cooperation Project Agriculture tagged:“Green Imperative.”

From Udo Onyeka, Lagos The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operation Unit (FOU), Zone B, has stated that it has arrested 21 suspects for allegedly smuggling over 4,000 bags of foreign rice into the country in December 2018.

The Technical Committee on Nigeria Yam Export say it is targeting the exportation of no fewer than 5,760 tonnes of yam to different countries in 2019.

More than 10,000 small-scale farmers from Kogi are to benefit from a ,$200million grant under the World Bank-assisted Agro Processing Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Support (APPEALS) project.

The Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) has established 160 hectares of National Mandate Tree Species across ecological zones in Nigeria between 2017 and 2018 under the national afforestation programme.

National Coordinator, Zero Hunger Commodities, Dr Tunde Arosanyin, has urged the federal, state and local governments to encourage family gardening, as part of efforts to boost food production in the country.

An Agriculturist, Dr John Olaoye, has called on the local government councils to re-establish community sanitation to help control the menace of chemicals used in foodstuffs in the market. Olaoye, a lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin, made the call in an interview with the News Agency …

The Head, Media and Communication, Elephant Group Plc, a local rice producing company in Lagos, Mr Babatunde Ajibola, says Nigeria has everything to become giant in rice production in Africa.

The U.S. Embassy in Abuja is partnering with an NGO known as R.H Equipped to train 150 unemployed youths in Katsina State on agricultural entrepreneurship.