Paul Ikonne, Executive Secretary of NALDA, revealed this development in a statement he issued on Monday.
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The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has said Ekiti has the capacity to feed the South West geopolitical zone and the country when the agricultural potentials of the state is fully harnessed with the activation of all its plans.
‘Farming’, the acclaimed memoir film of Nigerian-British actor, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, featuring Nollywood Diva Genevieve Nnaji, is to hit Cinemas on October 11,its producers has said.
Internally Displaced Persons at the Gwoza and Bama camp Durumi, Abuja, have appealed to the Federal Government to allocate farming lands to them to cater for themselves.
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians not to relent in their support for the Federal Government’s drive to move away from over dependence on oil to agriculture.
Jacob Erikstrup, the Minister Counselor of Denmark in Lagos on Tuesday expressed concern about post-harvest losses by Nigerian farmers.
A Director at NAQS, Dr Maimuna Abdullahi, disclosed this on Monday in Kano at a One-Day sensitization workshop on Good Agricultural practice.
A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who visited the area on Wednesday reports that many farmlands abandoned for several years were being cultivated by the returnees.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that for the past few weeks, rain had not fallen in most parts of the state and the prospect of the farmers having to re-plant, is very high.
“The government is planning to introduce six mega-rice cities in the state and any Local Government Area that covers 5,000 hectares of land for rice production would benefit from the interventions
Hon. Mohammed Kurfi, a member of House of Representatives from Dutsin-ma/Kurfi Federal Consistency, stated this during an interview with newsmen to mark the All Progressives Congress one year in office in Katsina State