By Oluwatoyin Adegoke The Federal Government is working with the Ogun State government and other relevant stakeholders to support Cassava farmers with knowledge-based trainings and provision of farm input. The collaboration, anchored by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Continue Reading
Rice farmers in Ogun state has called on the federal government to expand the numbers of benefitiaries for the free inputs support for rice farmers in the state. The farmers while speaking with Radio Nigeria after the distribution of the support at the Kotopo, Abeokuta office of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development […]Continue Reading
One of the cardinal objectives of Federal government is the use of indigenous agricultural raw materials in the food chain production. Hence, the need for cassava flour use as an alternative flour in bread making came to the fore as master-bakers drawn from Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, and Lagos States converged in Ibadan for a […]Continue Reading
The gradual transition into extinction of one of the Africa’s nutritional delicacy, African Yam Beans, known as “Ewa Otili” among the Yorubas have become a great concern to stakeholders in the agricultural sector. At a day stakeholders privatization workshop on African Yam Beans held in Ibadan, participants frowned at the way Nigerians abandoned the planting […]Continue Reading
The number two goal of the Global Sustainable Development, SDGs, to improve people’s lives by 2030 is zero hunger. The goal is targeted at ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Little wonder then, why the 2019 World Food Day has, as its theme “Healthy Diets for a Zero-Hunger World”. The […]Continue Reading