The British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation has distributed 6,000 Noiler birds to 300 women farmers to enhance livelihood and encourage poultry production in Bauchi State.
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The Nigerian Senate has urged the executive to ensure allocation of at least 10 percent of total annual budget revenue to agricultural production.
The projects are expected to reach at least an extra 60,000 farmers and create up to 2,800 jobs among low-income communities in Nigeria.
The ECOWAS Commission said more than 4.8 million people across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are facing food insecurity resulting from the spate of terrorist attacks and military takeover of their governments.
An agriculture expert, Dr Ismail Olawale, has called for increased budgetary allocation to the agriculture sector as the 2024 Appropriation Bill is before the House of Assembly.
ASHENEWS reports that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has criticized the volume of climate finance flows globally.
ASHENEWS reports that the global roadmap released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says that an estimated 590.3 million will suffer hunger by 2030.
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT) have lamented the increasing cost of onions and how they have been forced to use them sparingly.
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari says the Federal Government is working toward increasing Nigeria’s current production level of coconut from 224,186 Metric Tonnes (MT) to 500,000MT by 2025.
A Bauchi based NGO known as Al-Muhibah Foundation, has conducted a three-day training for 50 women farmers on fonio farming in the state.