UK to provide digital, financial support for Nigerian farmers The Punch
Published 20 July 2021 Commonwealth Farmers, a UK-based data management firm with goals of providing business solutions for agricultural markets especially in Africa, has announced plans to partner with the South West Farmers Association of Nigeria to provide digital and financial support for Nigerian farmers.
This was disclosed in a meeting with the UK Department of International Trade at the British Consulate, Lagos. In a statement, Acting Managing Director of CwF Nigeria, Ibrahim Shelleng, disclosed that the firm will educate Nigerian farmers on the improvement and storing of seeds, farming techniques and the use of technology to boost production.
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Adams Aduojo was dissatisfied with the conduct of the labourers he contracted to plough his farmland for planting of beans.
The commercial farmer who lives in Enjema, a rural community in the eastern part of Kogi State, had hired their service a few months before this reporter visited but the farmland was yet untouched.
“They just collected my money and did nothing for more than a month. They must go there and do the work,” an angry Mr Aduojo said that evening.
He was reporting the perceived laziness of the labourers to his aged mother when our reporter arrived in the community.
Caught in the web: Killer herdsmen, floods overrun farms, destroy yields, insurance firms fail to lift hapless farmers The Punch
Published 15 July 2021
With only about five per cent of agricultural crops in Nigeria insured, operators see this as a threat to food security, OKECHUKWU NNODIM writes
The insurance of crops in Nigeria’s agricultural sector is low as most farmers across the country shy away from insuring their crops and produce.
Agro-insurers, government officials as well as farmers believe that it is vital to insure crops, particularly to forestall the devastating impact of adverse weather on crop production.
Operators in the sector see the about five per cent level of agriculture insurance in Nigeria as another potential threat to food security nationwide.
[FILES] Rice Farmers
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), on Wednesday, empowered 150 rice farmers with improved rice seeds and other farm inputs in Edo State.
Distributing the farm inputs to the farmers in Benin, Hajia Karima Babangida, Director, Federal Department of Agriculture, Abuja, said the effort was to ensure food sufficiency in Nigeria.
Represented by Aliyu Suleiman from the ministry, Babangida said the intervention was aimed at supporting 1,500 farmers (150 in each state) in 10 states of Edo, Kogi, Oyo, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Gombe, Katsina, Sokoto, Ogun and Benue. x
Babangida added that 150 smallholder farmers were selected from each of the benefitting states to cultivate one hectare of rice farm each.
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