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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that Nigeria would soon become the world’s food basket. The Vice President stated this yesterday when he received a group of Chinese investors and officials of the African Development Bank (AfDB), at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to...

Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has revealed that the nation was losing about $9billion annually following poor investment in agriculture business. Besides, the Minister said Nigeria was losing over 240 million metric tonnes of fish production in world market...

The Federal Government on Sunday said it was losing 9 billion dollars (N3.2 trillion) annually due to poor investment in agriculture before the present administration came to power. The Minister of State for Agriculture, Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, disclosed this … Read more via P.M. News –...

Against the background of Nigeria’s economic vulnerability, President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has said the current efforts of the Federal Government at diversifying the economy to an agriculture-centred one remains the viable solution to creating a healthy economy. … Read more via...

The anti-corruption drive of Mr. President Muhammdu Buhari put to a halt the exogenous leakages in the Agricultural sector to encourage, empower, and enhance the locally made farm produce thereby increasing our internally generated revenue (IGR) index and foreign exchange capacity and reserve to...

A breakdown of the $373 million said to have been facilitated to different areas of the agricultural value chain by the Nigerian Incentive Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, (NIRSAL), has been provided to BusinessDay. In a detailed response provided by NIRSAL .... Read more...

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said the slow growth in agriculture in the second quarter (Q2) of the year was largely due to the fact that it was a dry season, adding that lack of adequate irrigation also affected the sector.... Read more via TODAY.NG...