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Farmers in Achalla, Awka North local government area of Anambra state are still counting their losses following the devastating flood that ravaged the farmlands in the area. Over 50 hectares of rice farm in the council area was said to have been destroyed by flood after heavy rainfall that lasted several hours. Newly planted rice seedlings, as well as other ...

Osun State government in the last eight years has provided necessary farm inputs and infrastructure that has transformed the fortune of farmers and boost agribusinesses in the state. However, one major albatross is transporting farm produces to market. For years it was gathered farmers were running at a loss, as their produce perishes before getting to market. This has become ...

Farmers in Benue State have lost about N25bn to herdsmen attacks within the last nine months. Chairman, Benue State All Farmers Association of Nigeria, Aondoana Hembe, stated this on Tuesday while speaking to our correspondent on the phone. Hembe said that the loss covered crops, farmlands and other property belonging to farmers. He further said that some of the farmers ...

As part of efforts aimed at improving farmers’ productivity in Niger state, the state government has started the construction of a 55 kilometers road in Layun Local Government area of the State, under the second phase of its Rural Roads Mobility Project (RAMP). The State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, who inaugurated the project in Kutigi-Dasun-Tasha Hajiya, said that it would ...

Rice farmers in Borno State have called for road rehabilitation to accelerate production and ease movement of produce to markets. A cross section of the farmers made the call in separate interviews with newsmen, yesterday, at Zabarmari Rice Plantation in Maiduguri, the state capital. They described the deplorable state of road to the rice plantation as “inimical” to sustainable growth ...

PM News reports that no fewer than 2000 farmers in Awe Local Government Area of of Nasarawa State have received full compensation for ceding their lands for the construction of the Dangote Sugar Company in Tunga community. Alhaji Aliyu Ibrahim-Shuaibu, the Emir of Tunga, confirmed the payment of the compensation while speaking with newsmen in Lafia on Wednesday. The News ...