Agriculture

Yemisi Izuora Ecobank Nigeria has restated its commitment to the Agricultural sector and is supporting over 70,000 farmers with special loans to increase their capacity and yields during this planting…

Agency Report Gunmen on Monday killed 15 farmers in Nigeria’s northwest Katsina state, police said, in the latest violence by cattle thieves in the restive region. Roughly 200 gunmen on…

Arc Kabir Ibrahim That Nigeria is going to spend 13b to fight quylea birds, locusts and pests is not provided for in the 2020 budget and therefore unappropriated by the…

Yemisi Izuora The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has concluded arrangements to support 70,000 maize farmers under its Anchor Borrowers Programme, during the 2020 wet farming season. Head, Development Finance…

Hyacinth Chinweuba Niger State government is stepping up efforts toward boosting livestock and dairy production. The government says that the take-off of the multi million naira Bobi Grazing Reserve in…

Yemisi Izuora The Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System (BASICS), a research project of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), has created over 150 cassava entrepreneurs across…

Hyacinth Chinweuba Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has warned against the sale of fertlizer above government approved price. Governor Sani Bello gave the warning when he visited Savannah Fertilizer Services, Kontagora,…

Yemisi Izuora The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Zenith Bank Plc Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu has said that the bank is prioritising lending to the agricultural industry and other raw material suppliers…