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A project started by a parent volunteer and Garden Club Coordinator, Martha Rypstra to encourage gardening among the young stars.

Food comes first in the basic needs of humans, here’s a list the most consumed food in Nigeria on a daily basis.

As part of efforts to end farmers-herdera clashes and ensure peace, farmers and herders in over 40 communities in Riyom, Bassa, Barking Ladi and Bokkos in Plateau State were engaged for fours days on Peace building by Pastoral Resolve in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Mercy Corps.

5700-hectare irrigation has been inaugurated in Jigawa state, to address Nigeria’s quest for food security, job creation, and economic diversification.

The Lagos Rice Mill, the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa and fourth largest in the world will create close to 250,000 direct and indirect jobs producing 2.8million bags of 50kg rice per annum.

Opportunity: Nigeria is the fifth largest producer in the billion dollars cashew nuts industry, however, only 10% of his products are processed locally.

Africans have been urged to eat what they produce as well as export the surplus, embrace innovative policies while African leaders should demonstrate the political will and re-commit themselves to the transformation of agriculture on the continent.

Amidst drylands, droughts and shortage of water on farmlands, All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN and Federation of Agricultural Commodity Association of Nigeria, FACAN have recommended the need for irrigation facilities to enable them produce all-year-round.

Nigeria can produce up to 500,000 metric tonnes of Cocoa by 2024. Here’s how…

$538.05m was given to the Federal Government of Nigeria by the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development for Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones for Nigeria programme.