The Federal Government has commenced the process of moving the Universities of Agriculture away from the Federal Ministry of Education (FMOE), to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD). In addition, it is also seeking the amendment of the Act establishing the Universities of Agriculture in…
The current wholesale price of maize (White and Yellow) from Gambaru Market Borno state is NGN15, 700 and NGN 15,000 respectively. In Ekpoma market and Ujemeh market both in Edo state, the maize (White and Yellow) is sold for NGN 18, 000 respectively. The current wholesale price…
The National Interpretation Working Group Nigeria has announced that the Board of Governors of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has endorsed the National Interpretation (NI) of the Principles and Criteria of RSPO for sustainable palm oil production in Nigeria. According to the announcement made by the RSPO secretariat in a press release in…
Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice). As a cereal grain, it is the most widely consumed staple food for a large part of the world’s human population, especially in Asia. The rice plant can…
The price of some Agro commodities in Nigeria has recently been on the high side, there are many factors that are responsible for the price increment in the Nigerian markets. Currently, the wholesale price of tomato from Mile 12 Market and Oke-Odo Market both in Lagos State are NGN25, 000 and NGN20, 000 respectively…
Novus Agro Nigeria Commodity Index (NANCI) is a weekly average price of key agricultural commodities in selected markets (Dawanau in Kano state, Gombe main market, Igbudu market in Delta state, Makarfi in Kaduna state, Mile 12 in Lagos state, Mutum Biyu in Taraba state, Ogbete market in Enugu state, Relief market in Anambra state and…
The Federal Government has announced the new policy for tomato aimed at reducing N52 billion spent on the annual importation of 150, 000 metric tons of tomato concentrate through the neighboring countries into Nigeria. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment (MITI), Okechukwu Enelamah who announced the new policy…
In the company of the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja recently, the Zamfara State governor revealed that China has agreed to offer a loan value at $4.5 billion to fund agriculture projects in Nigeria. The governor explained that this development was as a result…
As I wrote earlier in our last post based on vegetable farming as an avenue to create wealth and improve the nation’s economy. We will keep referring to agriculture as a way out of poverty, food scarcity and development of the economy. Growth in the agricultural sector reduces poverty twice as much as any…
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has revealed plans to revive the cassava bread initiative to encourage the use of cassava in food production and processing. Ogbeh lamented that though Nigeria was the largest producer of cassava in the world, the economic and industrial potential of the crop had yet to…
