Niger, IFAD Celebrate Major Strides in Rice and Cassava Value Chains, Push for Expanded Support to Smallholder Farmers The Niger State Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)-assisted Value Chain Development Programme Additional Financing (VCDP+AF) say they have…
By AgroBroadcast News | Ilorin | November 2025 Stakeholders in Nigeria’s agricultural sector have renewed calls for improved agricultural mechanisation as a pathway to achieving national food security, self-sufficiency, and economic stability. They made the call on Wednesday during the…
By Agrobroadcast News Desk Nigeria’s dream of achieving sustainable food security is under growing threat from poor storage infrastructure and a deteriorating rural road network that continues to choke the movement of agricultural produce from farms to markets. This warning,…
By AgroBroadcast Team The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to sustaining the recent drop in food prices across Nigeria through intensified interventions along the country’s agricultural value chains. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, disclosed this…
Nigeria’s Federal Government has unveiled a renewed strategy to boost local milk production from the current 700 million litres annually to 1.6 billion litres, matching the country’s fast-rising consumption demand and cutting a yearly US$1.5 billion import bill. The initiative,…
Farmers across Zamfara State and Sokoto State are increasingly alarmed by renewed banditry at a critical time — the harvest of maize, rice and other staple crops — and are appealing to the federal and state governments to step up…