Nigeria’s economy is primarily driven by its non-oil sectors, with agriculture serving as a significant foundation, even with its ongoing productivity and security hurdles. There’s optimism ...

By Modupe Elizabeth AdesobaDespite being blessed with over 80 million hectares of arable land and a youthful workforce, Nigeria’s agriculture sector remains stuck in a cycle of low productivity ...

Nigeria has actively pursued ways to reduce its dependence on oil revenues during the recent period, and the agricultural ...

The group stressed that more than 80 per cent of pesticides distributed to smallholder farmers in Nigeria have been banned or phased out internationally, mostly due to health and safety concerns.

In the 1960s, before it turned to oil, Nigeria was one of the most promising agricultural producers in the world. Between 1962 and 1968, export crops were the country’s main foreign exchange earner.

Nigeria has committed $538.05 million to the first phase of its Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) programme and unveiled a ...

Babban Gona provides agricultural services such as crop training, financial literacy training and storage facilities for small-scale farmers in northern Nigeria.

Collectively, the interventions of “Team Europe” (EU and its member-states) exceed EUR 1.5 billion in support of climate-smart agriculture in Nigeria, through the development of agricultural ...

The Alliance for Action Against Pesticides in Nigeria (AAPN) says Nigeria is losing about $363 million annually due to the ...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS) will, henceforth, no longer be too visible at the nation’s airports.

Pitan Babalola, a former Programme Manager of LSADA in his presentation on ‘Issues and Challenges Of Food Security In Lagos State- The Way Forward,’ pointed out that proper orientation, training and ...

After serving the country between 1983 and 1984, he joined the Bauchi State Civil Service Commission where he served in the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources.