Akume, who knelt down at the IBB square, where the state APC governorship candidate, Emmanuel Jime, officially launched his election campaign, said he was sorry for his action.
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The Federal Government and the Government of Brazil on Thursday inaugurated 1.1billion dollar agricultural mechanisation programme that covers the entire agricultural value chain.
The National President of the association, Bello Abubakar, disclosed this an interview with newsmen in Abuja.
Abubakar said 50,000 hectares were being cultivated for maize production nationwide to meet the targeted output.
Ogbeh made this assertion in Abuja on Thursday at the Africa International Investment Summit and Expo (Africinvest) 2018, which also featured the Commodities International Summit and Exhibition.
Ogbeh made this known during a seminar and fish exhibition organised by the National Fish Association of Nigeria, South East Zone in Enugu on Thursday.
The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, on Monday, linked low irrigation practice as one of the setbacks to agricultural production in Nigeria, putting it at only two per cent.
The agriculture sector has significantly reduced the rate of employment in the country as over 12 million Nigerians have ventured into rice production in the last two years.
Onu made this known at ta news conference on the newly released MRC7377 BGH MAYCO 567 BGH and MRC 7361 transgenic cotton hybrid varieties in Nigeria.
Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has called for an urgent campaign against the use of pesticide to store agricultural produces for local consumption and exportation.
The Federal Government has approved N60 billion in support of its rice subsidy programme aimed at bringing down the price of the commodity across the country.
The Federal Government says it is considering fixing a guaranteed minimum price for agricultural produce to reduce the fluctuating and high cost of commodities.
The Vice President who stated this while responding to a variety of questions from Nigerians across different professions and persuasions at a town hall meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, said the programme would become the largest post-tertiary job scheme in Africa
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Monday in Dutse at the Special Town Hall Meeting on Agriculture.
According to him, the Central Bank of Nigeria has not issued any Letter of Credit for importation of rice in 2018.
Ogbeh said in an interview with journalists in Otukpo, Benue, that the act was detrimental to human health and the environment.
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 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this on Tuesday, at the launch of a five-year cocoasoil project organised by CRIN in Ibadan, to improve cocoa production in Nigeria.
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.
Ogbeh disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday at the inauguration of National Agricultural Seed Council Molecular Facility and the 2018 seed fair and Farmer’s field day.
The inauguration will be done as the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja by 12 noon