ShareBy Aluta News Dec 2, 2023 Niger State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TATA Group of Companies on emergency intervention in Agriculture. The agreement was signed in Abuja and geared toward engaging the youth of the state in agriculture mechanisation service provision. This is contained inContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Dec 1, 2023 The Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) has urged the Federal Government to halt export of maize and soybeans to ensure availability of the commodities and reduction in cost of poultry production. Ichie Ezeobiora, National President of PAN, made the appeal at the 2nd editionContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 19, 2023 Alhaji Musa Bosso, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development in Niger, says the state government would mobilise 250,000 farmers to engage in mechanized agriculture during the upcoming dry season. Bosso made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Oct. 13, 2023 Minister of Agriculture Abubakar Kyari, says the Federal Government is giving out 50 per cent subsidy to wheat farmers in the upcoming dry season farming to ensure massive production of the grain in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that KyariContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Aug 29, 2023 Some farmers in Gombe State are taking unusual steps to safeguard their crops as a result of the increasing cases of theft of farm produce. While some farmers now sleep on their farms to keep vigil, others now pay between N30, 000 and N50,Continue Reading
Share On August 20, the 2023 Youyang International Conference on Rural Development, jointly hosted by China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture (CRISSCA) of CAU, National Institute of Rural Revitalisation of CAU, and the People’s Government of Youyang County, was held in Hejiayan Village, Huatian Township, Youyang, Chongqing, where expertsContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News July 13, 2023 President Bola Tinubu has ordered immediate action to stem rising food prices and ensure sustainable food security in the country. At a briefing on Thursday in Abuja by Mr Dele Alake, Presidential Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Tinubu said the interventions wereContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News June 17, 2023 Gov. Umaru Bago of Niger State says his administration has concluded plans to cultivate 7.6 million hectares of land to boost agricultural production for food security. Bago disclosed this when he received a Blueprint from a pressure group tagged, “Technocrats and Professionals in NigerContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News April 13, 2023 The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said it has directly invested 604.6 million dollars in Nigeria’s Agricultural sector through domestic and international co-financing from 2016 to 2023. It said that 5,144,805 persons across 28 states of the country benefitted from viable interventions initiatedContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News March 12, 2023 The African Development Bank (AfDB), has signed a 362,000 Euros grant agreement with Hadejia Jama’are Komadugu Yobe Basin-Trust Fund. The bank in a statement said the grant would prepare additional studies under the second-phase of developing a strategic plan for managing water resources in theContinue Reading
