The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammed Mahmood, made the announcement when he briefed State House Correspondents after a closed-door meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Tuesday.
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This, the government said, would spur productivity and enhance the quality of food consumed by the people in the state.
This was contained in a statement by the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Adeniyi Adebisi, to commemorate World Food Day on Saturday.
The implements include: 5,411 sachets of fungicide Ultimax Plus, 500 litres of Insecticide Avesthrin and 100 knapsack sprayers as support to the cocoa farmers.
The passage of the bill into third reading was as a result of considerarion of the report of its committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Nanono said this at a Consultative Meeting on Restructuring of Presidential Fertilizer Initiative for Sustainability in Abuja on Monday.
Ezeaja Ikemefuna, the Chief Information Officer, FMARD disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, Minister of Environment; Alhaji Sabo Nanono; Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development; and Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Interior, all called for synergy to safeguard the National Parks and make them tourist attraction centres.
Chief Audu Ogbeh, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has commended the Central Bank of Nigeria for reducing interests’ rates on its funds from nine per cent to five per cent.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, says Federal Government’s closure of the Nigerian border does not in any way breach the free trade agreement in the West African sub-region.
The Federal Government has begun the distribution of cattle feed mills and rice milling machines to increase local rice production and end farmers/herdsmen clashes across the country.
The Nigeria Institute of Soil Science says the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, has developed recommendations on fertiliser use for different crops and soils.
The Federal Government has unveiled the National Gender Action Plan on Agriculture to support and empower women farmers to move from subsistence to commercial farming.
The Federal Government has appealed to states and local governments to invest at least five per cent of its budget to agriculture to achieve zero hunger by 2030.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says the Federal Government has set aside an intervention fund to support rice farmers, millers and marketers.
The Federal Government has called for partnership with the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to develop flood resistant seed varieties to ensure food security in the country.
Nigeria is to begin the production of pulses for export to India by 2019, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has said.
Ogbeh stated this while giving a goodwill message at the 2nd First Bank Agric. Expo 2018 with the theme: “Innovating for a Sustainable Green Economy,’’ in Lagos.
Ogbeh said this in Abuja on Thursday when the ministry signed a Memorandum of Understanding with John Deere Tractor Manufacturing Company on the procurement of tractors and the provision of farm mechanisation services.
He said that a change in the pattern of providing pasture for cattle would reduce farmers-herders clashes, while producing healthier cattle and guaranteeing better milk production.