• Deficits limit potential to address food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change • Nigeria-based Value Seeds tops the rankings in W/C/Africa

“One very good example that we see today is the locally home grown Nigerian rice, hitherto, Nigeria has been a major and largest importer of rice from Thailand and this implies largest importer in the world."

 Few days to Easter celebration, prices of tomatoes, pepper and rice have remained stable in most markets in Lagos, Journalists report.

“About 60 of them have been displaced and they were here in my palace till Wednesday before they left.”

“In the agric value chain, there are a lot of options, choose areas you have prowess at; if it is seed supply, fertilizer supply, piggery, food processing, production…; just take a particular area and specialize in it. "

…as small scale farmers worry over the cost.

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a motion to critically look into the issuance of licences for fish importation in Nigeria.

Agricultural data collected by governments, agribusinesses and banks is regulated in a piecemeal fashion, and ends up beyond the reach of the very farmers who generated the data.

“Failures in agriculture have been caused by a number of factors, sometimes the excessive interest rates and sometimes agronomic practices which are not in place or properly aligned, then of course there is the issue of management.”

“The commission has spent about N12m buying these food and non-food items for these refugees and persons of concern."

“The objective of this workshop is to achieve a safer food of animal origin for our citizen amidst other benefits such as domestic and international trade, safer environment and a sound well being of our livestock."

A company known as Popular Farms & Mills Nigeria Limited has laid the foundation for 44,000 MTs per year Sesame Processing Plant at its Challawa Unit in Kano State.

Yam Farmers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria have urged the Ministry of Agriculture and the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to resolve their differences toward boosting the country’s non-oil exports.

"The banks need to come down to the farm, spend like six months and look at what the farmers suffer before they say they want to support. If not so, we can’t move forward.”

“For now we are working with only two, out of the 23 LGs, but we are hoping to extend it to other LGs with a hope to bringing an end to the long existing crises”

“We have already profiled over 3,000 farmers, who will benefit more agro inputs in the coming weeks,”