*Kwara Gov launches 10-year agric transformation plan* •NEPAD, govt to spend $2bn to boost food security •Plan, a product of consultations: Farmers’ body Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Friday…
Agriculture
Kwara govt facilitates CBN support for local rice farmers
Kwara State Government has facilitated the disbursement of N115m by the Central Bank of Nigeria to local rice farmers to cultivate 420 hectares of land for the 2020/2021 dry season…
NCRI Boss Visits Bacita Out-station, Tasks Civil Servants to Engage in Farming
The Executive Director of the National Cereals Research Institute, NCRI, Badeggi, Dr. Aliyu Umar has called on Nigerian civil servants to use their non-official hours and other periods to engage…
Governor Inuwa hails Establishment of Institute of Trypanosomiasis Research in Gombe
…As Minister of Science and Technology Commissions North East Zonal Office of NITR in Gombe ” You are True Example of What APC Governor Should Be”, Dr. Onu Lauds Gombe…
Cocoa Market: West Africa Hard Pressed to Expand Share
Ghana and Ivory Coast account for two-thirds of the world’s cocoa supply, but unlike oil-producing countries, they are unable to influence prices that are historically too low to meet the…
Govt to establish cottage industries Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Kwara State Government and National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization…