Category: Agriculture
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Kogi govt unveils food sufficiency roadmap
As part of efforts to make the state the top producer of rice, cashew and cassava in the country, the Kogi State Government has unveiled its food sufficiency plan under the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement, and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS). Disclosing this on Monday in Lokoja, the deputy governor, Chief Edward Onoja, said “to achieve this…
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Nassarawa state takes delivery of over 30,000 ruminant feed supplements, mineral salts from Federal Gov’t
Nasarawa state government has taken delivery of over thirty nine thousand bags of ruminant feed supplements and sixteen thousand blocks of mineral salt from the federal government for onward distribution to pastoralists to tame farmers herders skirmishes. Recieving the items in Lafia, State Deputy Governor, Emmanuel Akabe said the items will be distributed in…
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FOOD SUFFICIENCY: Nassarawa to cultivate 500 hectares of land for irrigation farming, sign pact with Lower River Basin Authority
NAS/IRRIGATION 12/5/2020 Nasarawa state government has signed an agreement with the lower Benue River Basin development authority on cultivation of five hundred hectares of land for irrigation farming to enhance food sufficiency and to boost socio economic well being of the state. Governor Abdullahi Sule gave this indication during an inspection tour of the site…