Some agriculture experts have called for the sensitization of local against agrochemicals misuse in the country to boost food security.
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From time immemorial, agriculture was Nigeria’s economic mainstay, however, overtime, agriculture has been relegated to the background for obvious reasons, it’s on record that Nigeria’s endowment with vast natural resources of arable land from the stretch of savanna grassland, the dense swamp and rainforest, the untapped and unhannessed abundant quantities of solid minerals almost all over the country have either been misused or put to abandonment over the years.
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, says about 50 million out of the 80 million hectares of arable land in the country remain uncultivated.
In 2022 Heman Gabriel Zakaria a final year Agricultural student at Babcock University, having passion for finding solutions to problems around agriculture and food security, this passion was directed toward addressing the issue of food insecurity, and led to the initiation of a research on boosting agricultural productivity and mitigating post-harvest losses experienced by farmers in Nigeria and Africa as a continent which happens to be the major occupation practised in the continent.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF), and the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) have launched a $100 million financing initiative to support ongoing efforts to improve food security in Africa and make the continent the world’s major food producer.
ASHENEWS reports that the Niger State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TATA Group of Companies on emergency intervention in Agriculture.
Livestock keeping in Africa is being recognized as a credible climate solution, as it is a means to provide valuable agricultural resilience to climate extremes
Niger East senatorial district has been grappling with a persistent issue of low farm yields for quite a number of…
It is the dawn of a new administrative journey in Nigeria, and newly or reelected government representatives are taking the…
The governors of the Northeast Nigeria have pledged to boost small scale irrigation farming to mitigate negative impact of climate change in the region.