The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) says that it paid claims of more than N504.5 million to 8,393 insured farmers who were affected by the 2022 flood that ravaged the country.
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A Babcock University undergraduate student, who majors in agriculture and industrial technology at Ilishan-Remo in Ogun State, Heman Zakaria, has won the ‘2022 Farmer of the Year’ award.
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has approved the implementation of the Farmers’ Intervention Programme (FIP), focusing on subsidies of farm inputs for farmers in the state.
The Enugu State Agricultural Development Programme (ENADEP) has registered and trained 400 farmers from various agricultural value chains on organic fertiliser production.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) has said that the African yam-bean contains more than 30 percent protein, higher than other plants and crops, and has the ability to survive different ecological systems in Nigeria.
The National Programme Manager of the Flour Milling Association of Nigeria (FMAN), Dr. Aliyu Samaila, has said that Nigerian wheat farmers have cultivated a total of 114,000 hectares in 16 states.
A few years ago, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) rated eighty-six countries as low-income and food-deficient nations, thus, considered to be food insecure (http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9290e/w9290e01.htm). Forty-three out of these food-deficient countries are located in the African continent, which has a total of 58 countries. The most affected among the forty-three countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where chronic hunger, squalor, and abject poverty are widespread. This is despite overall gains recorded in food production and food security over a decade on a global scale.
ASHENEWS reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has disclosed that the country spends N2 billion for the importation of wheat annually.
ASHENEWS reports that the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has identified suitable planting windows for cowpea also known as beans for the different ecologies in the country.
Dr. Jean Baptiste, AATF Regional Representative for West Africa who made the disclosure during a visit to Pandagric Farms, near Keffi, Nasarawa state said the windows will enable farmers to cope with the vulnerabilities of climate change.
Sixty corps members were on Friday trained on modern farming methods at the College of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Technology (CAFFTECH), Ijeda-Ojesa, Osun.