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The Ministry of Food and Agriculture is seeking a legislation that will make it compulsory for lenders to dedicate at least 20 percent of their loan portfolios to the agriculture sector.

Dr Peter Beine is also accused of reportedly incentivising an investigator attached to the State House’s Anti-Corruption Unit

To boost the adoption of sustainable climate-smart agriculture and renewable energy in Nigeria and grow the country’s economy, the European Union (EU) has unveiled

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Agric best for youth entrepreneurship - Deputy Trade Minister

Our immediate neighbour Kenya now grows Bt cotton that is resistant to boll warm and GM cassava bred to resist the deadly cassava brown streak disease

Gbenga Adeniji and Dele Ogunyemi The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has urged the six governors in the South-West to inject at lea...

NiMet’s forecast foregrounds food insecurity Global researchers and agricultural scientists have said that stockpiling and trade restrictions by countries producing major food grains could lead to intercontinental food shortage, hunger and malnutrition for food import-dependent countries. x The fear is intensified as the Nigerian Metrological Agency (NiMet) predicted crop failures as climate change induces elongated droughts amid insecurity for farmers, fol...

Modi govt allocated 438% more budget towards agriculture sector compared to UPA, says Giriraj Singh I want to stress on the budget (allocation) for the agriculture sector. The budget allocation for agriculture was Rs 88,811 crore between 2009 and 2014, which was increased to Rs 4,87,238 crore between 2014 and 2020, registering a growth of 438 per cent, he said PTI | February 6, 2021 | Updated 14:36 IST Union minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday said the budgetary allocation made by the Modi gove...

And fit but i mean. its clear that the agric. actual sector is responsible for this pollution. but its doing nothing about it i think that theyre going to. test indicate that much of the pollution comes from the pond and behind the lagoon where broccoli lettuce an artichoke some grow some fields have apparently been irrigated illegally. but farmers like my northern martinas refute such claims he says more farmers are switching to more modern irrigation systems which allow them to use fewer ferti...