Agriculture

Minister inaugurates tomato monitoring team

Hajia Aisha Abubakar, the Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, on Monday inaugurated a…

Senator distributes pumping machines to farmers in Kaduna

Sen. Mustafa Bukar (APC-Katsina North) has commenced the distribution of 120 water pumping machines across…

Why establishing cattle colonies will be difficult- former NVRI boss

The Federal Government’s plan to establish cattle colonies will be “very difficult now because arable…

Committee partners agric varsity, institute on seed yams export

The technical committee on Nigeria Yam Export Programme said it had started work with the…

States to commence cattle colonies next week – FG

The Federal Government says work will commence next week on cattle colonies in states that…

Open grazing: Herdsman docked in Benue

The Police on Thursday arraigned a 20- year-old cattle header, Ibrahim Yau, at a Makurdi…

Kogi to become leading cassava producer- Official

By Richard Elesho/ Lokoja Kogi State Government has said it is working hard to make…

Paddy rice production increases from 5m tonnes to 17m tonnes in 2 years

Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that the production of…

FG pledges support for Kogi’s Agric sector

The Federal Government is to support the Kogi Government with agricultural equipment to encourage farmers…

Kogi to inaugurate rice factory

Kogi Government on Wednesday said its Confluence Rice Factory, Omi, would be inaugurated in March…