Rising insecurity deters agricultural investments
Olanrewaju Saheed (not real name), a 35-year-old Katsina-based farmer moved in 2020 to Chitimu village in Abuja, under Gwagwalada area council which shares boundary with Niger State.
He…
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Input costs, floods seen shrinking agric output
Nigeria’s agricultural output in the second half of this year is expected to slow on the back of flooding and the continued surge in input costs, which have compounded the challenges facing…
Microsoft taps digital transformation to aid food security in Nigeria, others
Microsoft has disclosed plans to aid food security in Nigeria and other African countries by enabling digital transformation in Agriculture.
This was disclosed in a virtual roundtable…
How 3100 Benue & Nasarawa smallholder farmers lost N111.4 million in 2021
Agriculture is the superfood of any economy. This statement is especially true in the case of underdeveloped and developing countries that are still pivoting towards economic stability and…
XtraLarge Farms’ Agritech City: The real deal
“Modern, technologically-driven agriculture is our future. We do not need to import any food item that we can produce locally here in Nigeria. My son is studying agriculture because I have…