The Present Administration’s Transformation Agenda on Agriculture has generated about Forty-Seven Trillion Naira into the Nation’s Gross Domestic Products GDP in the last three years. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina made this known in Abuja while receiving an award of outstanding Minister of the year organized by the News watch [...]
FISON decries absence of Fisheries Act in Rivers state
Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), Rivers state chapter, has decried the absence of Fisheries Act, which they said is preventing farmers from obtaining Food and Agricultural grants in the state. Dr. Awotein George, the Chairman of FISON, said in Port Harcourt that the state had no law that would enable farmers to access the grant. “Without Fisheries Act you cannot access [...]
Nigerian Farmers Added Over 21 millions Metric Tones Of Food To National Production
Nigerian farmers have added over Twenty one million metric tones of food to National production in the last three years, thereby decreasing food import bills from eleven billion dollars to less than four billion dollars. This is why agriculturists are highlighting a vibrant and effective market system for agriculture to remain key to economic revival. This was according to [...]