Agriculture in Nigeria
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NIGERIA, 2017/03/22
Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu says efforts to get the country out of its present economic challenges is beginning to yield positive results, particularly in the area of agriculture.
The presidential aide said this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday.
According to him, an increase in the volume of rice production and processing across the country is by presently saving the country a lot of foreign exchange.
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NIGERIA, 2017/01/17
The federal and national governments will spend less than two % of their N13.5 trillion total budgets this year on agriculture despite their publicised commitment to the sector, Daily Trust investigations have shown.
Analysis of the 2017 combined spending of the federal and 30 national governments shows that they will spend N254 billion (1.8 %) on agriculture.
This figure is slightly higher than the N196.3 billion (1.6 %) they spent on the sector last year.
About half of these figures would be expended on running the bureaucracies of the agric ministries and their related agencies of forestry, rural development and water resources, part others.
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NIGERIA, 2017/01/17
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has canvassed the immediate imposition of a minimum of 150 % appropriate levies on all tobacco products.
Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, had, in a circular to the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) two weeks ago, announced a raise of import business on tobacco from 20 % to 60 %. Other products that as well had their duties reviewed upwards are imported rice, sugarcane, cassava products and salt, part others.
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INDIA, 2016/08/25
The Katsina National government has pledged to assist farmers in the national to acquire about 1000 tractors in the next three years to make farming fully mechanised in the national.
The appropriate adviser to the governor on Agriculture, Dr Abba Abdullahi, stated this at the same time as the deputy governor and Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Mannir Abdullahi, inspected the initial tranche of 50 tractors under Katsina Mahindra Agricultural Intervention Programme that have arrived in Katsina.
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NIGERIA, 2016/01/04
The Bankers Committee said it has set a target of N300 billion to boost lending to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) and the agriculture sector in 2016.
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, said this while briefing journalists on the communiqué released next the 7th Annual Bankers Committee Retreat held in Lagos from December 10 to 11. The theme of the conference was “‘Creating an Enabling Environment for SME Increase’.
Mr. Emefiele said that the facilities would not only be for SMEs, but as well to large scale farming companies.
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NIGERIA, 2015/10/31
Some stakeholders in the Agro-Commodity Export on Sunday urged the Federal Government to address the ban placed on some Nigerian produce by the European Union.
Obiora Madu, the Chairman, Export Group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), made the appeal at the same time as he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
He spoke on the sidelines of a one-day interactive conference with exporters.
Mr. Madu said that it was imperative for the government to resolve the issue before the June 2016 deadline given by the EU to correct the anomaly.
“Yes, there are a lot of export markets beyond Europe but if we do nothing, it is likely to escalate at the same time as other nations join the EU to reject our produce again we are in trouble.
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BENIN, 2015/07/23
Fears are growing that without timely intervention to stem outbreaks of the highly virulent avian flu virus H5N1 across West Africa, further spread across the region and beyond is inevitable, FAO said today.
To this end, the agency is calling for $20 million for prevention and response activities.
The call follows outbreaks of the virus in poultry farms, markets and family holdings in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana.
The outbreak comes as nations across West Africa are still recovering from, and in some cases still battling, Ebola. Avian flu could trigger a mass die-off of chicken – a nutritious and inexpensive source of food for a lot of people– with detrimental impacts on diets and on the economy of the region, exacerbating an by presently difficult situation.
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NIGERIA, 2015/06/06
In order to accelerate the development of Nigeria's agricultural sector and ensure food security, President Muhammadu Buhari has said that agriculture must be treated as a business.
The president stated this in Calabar yesterday while declaring open the 55th annual general conference of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA).
Buhari who was represented by the permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Mines and Solid Minerals, Alhaji Baba-Umar Farouk, as well advocated the active participation of the private sector towards developing agriculture in Nigeria.
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NIGERIA, 2015/01/30
Thousands of small farmers in northeastern Nigeria are facing eviction from their ancestral lands without consultation or compensation to make way for a U.S.-owned rice plantation, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
A new 30,000 hectare rice plantation, owned by Oklahoma-based Dominion Farms, will displace up to 40,000 people in Taraba national, said Mariann Bassey Orovwuje, a spokeswoman for the NGO Friends of the Earth Nigeria, one of the environmental and activist groups behind the statement.
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NIGERIA, 2014/04/07
A 10-hectare cassava farm pilot project, which aims to contribute to efforts to ensure food security and reduce poverty in Nigeria, is due to be launched in the country's South-west Ogun national next week, the project's promoters said.
Caterina de’ Medici Africa Projects Ltd (CDMA) as saying in a press statement issued here this weekend that the project would be launched at Ikenne 9 April by the national governor, Mr. Ibikunle Amosun.
CDMA said the pilot farm would serve as a prelude to a bigger 4,000-hectare cassava farm to be supported by Thai Farms International Ltd and other investors, USAID- Nigeria Expanded Trade and Transport Programme (NEXTT) and the local Diamond Bank.
