The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Shehuri, has solicited more funds to upscale investments in the agricultural sector.
The project seeks to build the capacity of smallholder farmers to be able to produce more to feed Nigerians.
The project seeks to build the capacity of smallholder farmers to be able to produce more to feed Nigerians.
The protesting farmers on Monday squatted on railway tracks in several parts of India disrupting train services.
Beans, rice, millet, and sorghum farmers battle to salvage their crops. Some of them were forced to hire generators to pump water from waterways or rivers to their farms.
The NSCDC said there have been disputes between herders and farmers in a Kwara community over grazing land.
Lawmakers are worried renewed farmers-herders clashes may ensue as herdsmen migrate southwards during the dry season.
“We envisage that we may have more than 25 million job losses in the country’s poultry sector with the current challenges.”
Mr Obaseki said that the people of Edo had resolved that ranching was a private business and should be treated as such.
The speaker conducted a voice vote on each of the 39 clauses of the bill before it was passed.
