Author: Olanrewaju Adesina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMag2cQq4bo A member of the House of Representatives, representing Aba North and Aba South federal constituency, Hon. Chimobi Ebisike, has said that only massive investment in agriculture would fast-track Nigeria’s economic recovery. The lawmaker, who made the submission while declaring open a one week skills acquisition progromme for his constituents in Aba, urged youths to embrace agriculture for self-reliever. Obisike argued that Nigeria fared better during the era her economy was dependent on agriculture, regretting that the discovery of crude oil has not added much value to the country, warning that Nigeria’s economic woes would worsen unless there is massive investment in agriculture.
The Bridge That Gap, a non-governmental organisation has advised farmers in Kaduna State to adopt climate-smart agriculture due to the changing rainfall as a result of climate change. The Executive Director of the NGO, Ms. Gloria Bulus, who made the call in an interview with the newsmen in Kaduna, said that based on the Nigerian Meteorological Agency’s rainfall forecast, Kaduna state was likely to experience an earlier than the normal onset of rainfall in 2022 compared to the previous years. According to her, the prediction shows that the earliest onset of rainfall is likely to occur between April and May, as such, residents should look out for…
Millions of Nigerian youths can significantly contribute to the economy and get profitably employed if various technologies developed by research institutes and universities will be adopted, up-scaled and escalated to every local government. This was the submission of the Overseeing Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, Dr. Agnes Yemi Asagbra, at Technology and Innovation Expo 2022, organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, in Abuja, recently. The director-general specifically called on states and local government authorities to play greater roles in employment creation and food production and value chain development by adopting value chain technologies to…
An agriculture expert haschided the government over the high cost of rice despite over N850 billion onthe rice value chain under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. The National President of NigeriaAgro Input Dealers Association (NAIDA), Kabiru Fara, argued that if the moneyspent by the Central Bank investing in rice was spent on importing it,Nigerians will have more than enough to eat at a lower price. Currently a 50kg of Nigerian rice is sold for between N25,000 and N27,000 while foreign rice is sold for between N30,000 and N32,000. Rice millers had blamed the high cost of the staple food on the…
