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The Chairman of JOSAN Integrated Rice Mills and Farms, Chief Oliver Okeke, has commended the Anambra Government for the successful inauguration of the JOSAN Rice Mills, with about 10,000 farmers.
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No fewer than 237 million people are affected by hunger in sub-Saharan Africa.
Read More No fewer than 5, 814 rice farmers have been presented with various farm inputs under the Anchor Borrower programme of the Federal Government for the 2019 dry season rice farming in Plateau.
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Nearly 235,000 vulnerable households will benefit from a US$101 million project that aims to improve the living conditions and climate resilience of rural populations in five provinces of Burundi.
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said the agriculture sector of the economy grew by 18.58 per cent year-on-year in nominal terms in fourth quarter of 2018.
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The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it is seeking 940 million dollars to meet urgent needs of more than 32 million food-insecure people living in more than 30 countries.
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WorldStage Newsonline– The National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NCAN), Kaduna State chapter has pledged to produce 15,000 tonnes of cotton in the 2019 farming season.
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Local rice millers and farmers in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to put a stop to the massive smuggling of rice into country if its quest to encourage local production was anything to by.
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WorldStage Newsonline– The Federal Government of Nigeria has assure stakeholders that it will do the needful to actualize both the immediate and long- term goals of the Hadejia Jama’are Komadugu-Yobe Basin (HJKYB) project; sourcing for funds for the implementation of the priority projects and host a donors’ roundtable to prospect for funding.
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In a bid to enhance productivity among Cocoa farmers, the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Ibadan has banned the use Acephate, Amitraz, Aldrin and others insecticides for cocoa production.
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