President Buhari, on Monday in Iota, Lagos State told Governor Sanwo-Olu in a simple sentence: “You are doing well.”
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Idinoba expressed the concern in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Gombe on Tuesday.
Atho told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the state had the capacity to feed itself in the area of rice production, if fully harnessed, including cultivating the crop all-year round.
The Plateau chapter of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria has hailed the ongoing closure of the nation’s land borders by the Federal Government, saying the measure has boosted rice production in the state and country.
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria has urged the Federal Government to sustain its current border closure, saying it would help boost the economy.
Alhaji Suleiman Umar, the National Programme Manager of Popular Farms Mills in Kano State, says the company is targeting to process 1.5 million tonnes of Paddy Rice per annum in the country.
The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya, disclosed this during an inspection tour of the mill alongside other members of the State Executive Council.
Ernest Aubee, Principal Programme Officer and ECOWAS Head of Agriculture Division, made the disclosure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday.
Bagudu gave the assurance when he conducted round the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, who was on assessment tour to Kebbi State on Monday.
Buhari decried the way and manner the nation’s scarce resources were wasted on the importation of food items by the previous regimes.
He said the nation had no option than to concentrate more on agriculture and solid mineral activities.
It will boost banks’ financing to the agricultural sector, enhance capacity utilisation of agricultural firms involved in the production of identified commodities, increase the productivity and incomes of farmers
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The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, made this announcement while inspecting a 420-hectare rice farm and mill belonging to Olam Nigeria in Rukubi, near Doma, Nasarawa State
He said there were lots of funding packages initiated by the bank to
encourage agriculture, saying the low budgetary allocation for
agriculture was not good enough