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Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki has disclosed plans to make the state the focal point for agribusiness in Nigeria.

The Governor who made the disclosure during a 3-day agribusiness workshop at the Randekhi Hotel in Benin City with the theme: “Harnessing resources and opportunities to optimize agribusiness in Edo State” expressed that his administration would be initiating strategies that could enhance agricultural development, create jobs and guarantee food security.

“While we must continue to encourage small farm holdings to improve and obtain modern technology, we must address the policy of mechanization, characterization using technology’’, he explained.

He also informed that the state government had promised to work with the federal government to revitalize arable lands for optimum use.

Meanwhile, the Chairman, Wells Sam Calos Farm, Hosa Okunbor, has commended the initiative of the state government on agricultural development and food security.

He however urged all the stakeholders to work with the state government towards achieving the agricultural development plan.

 https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/30/obaseki-to-make-edo-state-foremost-agribusinesshub-in-nigeria/

Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has urged Nigerian youths to take advantage of the Agriculture Finance Bill recently passed by the 8th Senate to enhance their investments in agribusiness.

In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Print Media, Chuks Okocha, the senate president commended youths who have decided to exploit opportunities in the agricultural sector  instead of waiting endlessly for non-existing white collar jobs.

The Senate President, who addressed the members of the Tomatoes and Orchid Producers Association of Nigeria, (TOPAN) during a visit at the National Assembly complex in Abuja said if the youths harness the provisions of the finance bill, it would ensure food security, generate employment and ultimately develop the economy.

“The youths should take advantage of the recently passed Agro Finance Bill by the 8th Senate and access the benefits of agriculture on the small and medium scale financing and agro allied jobs. This bill, if properly harnessed by the youths, would create jobs and ensure food security for the country and help grow the economy, especially in the time of recession in the country”, he explained.

Meanwhile the leader of TOPAN, Oyeleke Job has expressed that members encourage massive production of tomatoes and orchids by offering training and technical assistance to producers in the rural areas.

He added that the association has contributed greatly to improve the quality production of tomatoes and orchids as well as creation of jobs for the unemployed youths.


https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/30/senate-president-urges-nigerian-youths-to-harness-benefit-from-agrofinancing/

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has said that at least a sum of $265 billion annual investment is required to end poverty and hunger by 2030.

This revelation was made by the President of the agency Kanayo Nwanze at the ongoing UN International Conference tagged ‘Investing in Inclusive Rural Transformation: Innovative Approaches to Financing’.

According to him, the world as matter of urgency, should take urgent action to raise the estimated 265 billion dollars a year needed to achieve the first two Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty and hunger by 2030.

Nwanze lamented that despite several years and efforts geared at combating poverty, about 800 million children, women and men today still languish in abject penury.

“Despite decades of commitments and considerable effort to end poverty and hunger, nearly 800 million children, women and men still go hungry every day and an almost equal number live in extreme poverty,” Nwanze said.

He stressed the need for private sector investments in rural areas, where rates of poverty and hunger was highest adding that the financing needs for development were enormous, but with potentials for development.

“Agri-food is already a five trillion dollars sector, and it is growing. It holds tremendous promise for the private sector and for producers in developing countries,” he said.

The president therefore emphasized the need to direct investments to the rural areas noting that the majority of poor and hungry people lived in rural areas of developing countries.

“Investments need to be targeted to transform rural areas into vibrant places that offer all people the opportunity to have decent jobs and lead dignified lives free of poverty and hunger”.


https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/27/265-billion-needed-to-end-global-poverty-and-hunger-by-2030/

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As part of efforts to boost agricultural production in the country, the Federal Government is set to reduce the price of Nitrogen Phosphorus and Potassium (NPK) fertiliser from N7,500 and N9,000 to N5,000 per bag.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Chief
Audu Ogbeh while addressing journalists on Tuesday  in Abuja. According to the Minister, the exercise was aimed at making food production easier and enhance profit for farmers in the country.

Ogbeh noted that government would take delivery of the first shipment of 800,000 tonnes of NPK fertiliser from Morocco by Jan 27, adding that the blending would take place in all parts of the country to enable farmers have access to fertiliser at a very low cost.

“We expect the first shipment of phosphate from Morocco to arrive on Friday in Lagos and then the blending will be done here. We want to ensure that every blender in the country who has the capacity will blend and even those that their machines are not in order, are going to supported’’

The Minister expressed concerns about neighbouring countries who depend on Nigeria for fertilisers and assured Nigerian farmers that government would ensure that the fertilisers go round, despite demands from these countries.

“The target we have is about 700,000 to 800,000 tonnes of fertilisers per annum from  Morocco but the problem is we do not only satisfy Nigeria, our neighbouring countries also come in and take a bit. We cannot deny them entirely but we have to satisfy ourselves first.”  He said

https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/25/fg-to-slash-fertiliser-price-ogbeh/

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has accessed a $67m World Bank loan to rehabilitate Hadejia Valley Dam in Jigawa.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Water Resources, Senator Ubale Shittu, who informed News agency of Nigeria in Dutse explained that the project was aimed at enhancing irrigation, water supply and fish farming in the area.

The senator, representing Jigawa North-East said the $60m would be used to repair and expand the dam by 1,000 hectares while the remaining $7m would be spent on dredging of the river from Tiga Dam in Kano State to Koli in Kirikasama Local Government Area of Jigawa state.

He explained that the contract for the project would be awarded next month while work is expected to commence by the end of first quarter.

He also informed that 25 per cent of similar projects had been injected into 2017 budget presented to the National Assembly.

Lauding the efforts of the Federal government towards agricultural development, Shittu reiterated that the present administration’s commitment to the development of dams across the country was to boost agriculture.


https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/24/fg-to-access-67m-world-bank-loan-to-develop-dam-in-jigawa/

Obaseki partners with private sector to revamp agriculture in Edo state
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has inaugurated a nine-man ad-hoc committee to start agricultural empowerment programme targeted at creating 50,000 to 80,000 jobs.

The governor explained that the committee was constituted to commence some of the administration’s agricultural activities before the next cropping season towards reviving agriculture in the state.

“This is an advocacy committee which we expect to start the agriculture mandate as contained in my manifesto. We will soon constitute a full committee to look at our agricultural initiative. We want to ensure we begin some of our agricultural activities before the next cropping season. We want this committee to help the government think and identify the project we must implement”, he said.

Speaking on the scope of the programme, Obaseki highlighted four areas of focus including 5,000 hectares of maize, 10,000 hectares of green house for vegetables and tomatoes, 4,000 hectares of piggery.

Obaseki also avowed that his administration would provide support for 3,000 cocoa farmers to improve their yields.

The committee headed by the Obazelu of Benin, Chief Osaro Idah is a product of the Public Private Partnership between the State and private sector partners.

Expressing optimism that the partnership will lead to generation of employment for youths in the state, the governor noted that the partnership will also create wealth through agricultural activities and ensuring food security for the over 4 million people of the State.

He added that the Ministry of Agriculture will serve as the secretariat while the Secretary to the State Government will provide the necessary support to the committee that will in turn submit reports on the level of progress being made, weekly.

https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/23/edo-governor-initiates-agric-committee-targets-80000-jobs/

About 16, 000 farmers in Bauchi State have been selected to participate in the state’s Anchor Borrowers Programme for the 2017 rice production scheme.

The Consultant to the state government on the programme, Dr. Nura AbdulMalik who disclosed this while addressing journalists at the state capital said the 16,000 were selected out of 25,000 who registered for the programme.

According to him, “we have verified 16,000 farmers to take part in the programme and each of them is expected to cultivate one hectare of rice farm”.

Speaking on the selection process, he informed that the state government targeted 30, 000 farmers but only 25, 000 registered. However during the verification, they discovered that some of the farmers could not meet the scheme’s requirements.

“Some of them are not real practicing farmers; some did not own farmlands while the farmland of some of them are not suitable for irrigated agriculture” he explained.

AbdulMalik said the selected farmers were currently undergoing training on the best agronomic practices across all the 20 local government areas in the state.

He however urged farmers to be fully involved in the training adding that the banks would not give loan to farmers who failed to participate in the ongoing training in local government areas of the state.

https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/23/anchors-borrowers-scheme-16000-farmers-to-participate-in-bauchi/

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As parts of efforts to boost rice production in Sokoto State, the state government said it has commenced the sale of 5000 water pumps worth N235 million to rice farmers in the state at subsidized prices.

This revelation was made yesterday in Sokoto by the Chairman of the State Committee on Immediate Framework on Agriculture, Alhaji Chiso Abdullahi at a town hall meeting on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s Anchor Borrowers Programme for the 2017 dry season rice farming in the state.
According to Chiso, the pumps that were purchased at N47,000 each, would be sold to the farmers at N10,000 each adding that that no fewer than 30,000 rice farmers the state  would benefit from the scheme.
The chairman, who is also a former deputy governor of the state, commended the state government and CBN for their commitment to the scheme, expressing confidence that the programme would boost food security in the state.
“Their gesture under the programme will really boost food security, curb poverty, unemployment and restiveness.” he said
Also speaking at the event, the CBN Branch Controller in the state, Mohammed Idris, noted that the aim of the meeting was to appraise the progress and challenges facing the programme.
Mohammed however assured that scheme will ensure that only genuine farmers directly benefit from the initiative. https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/20/rice-production-sokoto-sells-5000-pumps-to-farmers-at-subsidized-rate/

Cattle breeders in Zamfara State can now breathe a sigh of relief as there are reports that cattle rustlers in the state have started returning stolen animals following a successful peace dialogue with authorities of state.

This assurance was given by the Chairman of Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara, Alhaji Ibrahim Tanko while addressing journalists yesterday in Gusau.

According to him, as a result of the meeting of the committee headed by the State’s Deputy Governor, Malam Ibrahim Wakkala with major stakeholders in the state. The rustlers through their leader, had agreed to return more stolen animals and surrender weapons.

“Even though some of the bandits are yet to surrender their weapons, they have assured the committee of their willingness to do so at an agreed date”, he said

The Local Government Chairman therefore called on people of the state to support the peace initiatives that are ongoing in the state.

It would be recalled that cattle rustlers had in recent times surrendered a large cache of weapons to the authorities in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state.

https://thefarmersdiary./2017/01/19/excitement-in-zamfara-as-ex-cattle-rustlers-surrender-weapon-and-cattles/

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