Borno Governor, Northeast Nigeria, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday visited New Marte, a former stronghold of Boko Haram on the shores of the Lake Chad, to explore how major irrigation farming activities of the Chad Basin Development Authority (CBDA) could be restored by July, this year. This is just as the Governor ordered the […]

Borno Governor, Northeast Nigeria, Babagana Umara Zulum Tuesday paid an inspection visit to the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries Development, Poultry Production unit along Gamboru Ngala road, Maiduguri. Zulum explained during the visit that, his Administration would support poultry production in the state, in a bid to provide job opportunities to the teeming youth […]

418 women and youth from Kaduna State, Northwest Nigeria have completed a two-week training in fish and poultry farming, animal husbandry, dairy production and others at Audu Bako College of Agriculture, Dambatta, Kano State. The 418 women and youth are the second batch of trained beneficiaries under the World Bank’s Agricultural Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood […]

 Tomato farmers in Kumo Community in Gombe , North east of the country have called on both the Federal and the State Governments to assist in combating the perennial plant pests affecting tomato cultivation in the community. The farmers made the appeal in separate interviews with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Kumo […]

  Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Sabo Nanono (fourth from left), during a familiarisation tour of Nestlé Nig. Plc. headquarters at Ilupeju, Lagos, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020  Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Sabo Nanono on Monday scored high, local rice production in Nigeria, predicting that the country might soon begin exportation […]

Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has on Thursday said We’ll be proud to encourage production for export to boost our economy, when he recieved the Executive Director  , Nigerian Export Promotion Council, Mr  Olusegun Awolowo at the Government House, Maiduguri. Zulum added that, the strategic location of Borno gives the state added advantage of controlling […]

The Federal Government has established a Farmer Help Line centre in Maiduguri to enhance access to extension and farmer support services in the northeast. The establishment of the centre was a collaboration between the  Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Lake Chad Basin Research Institute, Maiduguri. The centre had been equipped with modern […]