The price of a 50 kg bag of local rice surged year-on-year (YoY) by 152.9%, reaching N95,738 in September 2024,…
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More than 2.8 billion people in the world cannot afford healthy diets, the Director-General of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Qu Dongyu, has said.
Nigeria, as a developing country, has a pocket of rotten eggs but is endowed with kindhearted people who give a helping hand to people in need. Hajia Salamatu Garba is a benevolent personality who founded the Women Farmers Advancement Network (WOFAN) to provide hope to the hopeless. The story of WOFAN creation is a heartwarming and motivational tale of how an act of kindness from one person can spark a lifetime dedication to helping the unfortunate and rescuing those in need.
An agricultural expert in Uganda, stunned a farmers’ conference in the capital Kampala recently, when he revealed that nowadays most homesteads have no fires nor smokes during the day, because people are not cooking due to acute food shortages.
In 2022, the African region accounted for the highest level of hunger as described by Global Hunger Index. According to the World Health Organization, over 340 million Africans were undernourished and severely food insecure between 2014 and 2020.
The global rice market is set to log its largest shortfall in two decades in 2023, according to Fitch Solutions.
The federal government has obtained a $134 million loan from the Africa Development Bank (AfDB)to boost wheat production. Minister of…
The federal government of Nigeria has disclosed that the demand for fish exceeds 3.6 million metric tons but the country…
The federal government of Nigeria says it has licensed 164 vessels to operate on territorial waters and exclusive economic zone.…
The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina on Tuesday told Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria…