Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region’s starving millions. Subsistence agriculture is a lifeline in the northeast but the eight-year Islamist insurgency has devastated activities, causing a desperate lack of food and sky-high prices. Many […]
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Farmers have started accessing fertilisers at the new rate, which is about 50 per cent less than what obtained some weeks ago, Punchng has learnt. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Audu Ogbeh, had in January announced that the price of fertilisers would crash by half, down from N12,000/N10,000 to around N5,000. Ogbeh also […]
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The Rural Finance Institution Building Programme (RUFIN) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Union Bank Nigeria Plc to enhance access to finance for rural farmers. The National Programme Coordinator, Mr. Olumuyiwa Azeez, during the signing of the MoU in Abuja, said the MoU was part of efforts made to ensure that credits are […]
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