The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has announced plans to accelerate private capital mobilisation on the African continent in line with its 2023 lending programme.
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ASHENEWS reports that a seed, and Managing Director of the ECOBasic Seeds Company Limited, Mr. Brighton Karume, has observed that Nigeria’s quest to be self-sufficient in food production will remain a mirage if farmers continued to plant grains as seeds.
The Flour Milling Association of Nigeria (FMAN) says it is cultivating 4,000 hectares of land for wheat production across the country in its 2022- 2023 programme.
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.
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.