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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for stronger integration of plant breeding, seed delivery systems, agro-industrialisation and private-sector investment to accelerate Nigeria’s agricultural transformation and strengthen food security. The Bank’s Officer-in-Charge, Vice-President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development Complex, Dr Martin Fregene, made the call on Wednesday at the 4th

The Kwara State Government has commenced a statewide artificial insemination programme aimed at improving cattle breeds and increasing milk and dairy production across the state. The initiative is being implemented in collaboration with Genex URUS, a United States-based international animal breeding company. The Press Secretary, Ministry of Livestock Development, Ahmed

The Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support (L-PRES) project in Borno has called on livestock farmers to embrace modern production methods to increase productivity and strengthen the state’s livestock value chain. Makinta Ali, State Coordinator of L-PRES, made the appeal at the project’s fourth stakeholders’ engagement meeting held on Saturday in

Artificial insemination (AI) is increasingly being used as a livestock breeding tool to improve animal genetics, reproductive management and productivity. Although the technology is used mainly in cattle, it is also used, to a lesser extent, in sheep, goats and pigs. For Nigerian and other African livestock farmers, understanding how

The Deputy Director of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Michael Ononugbo, has attributed the difficulty faced by Nigerian farmers in accessing finance to weak agricultural infrastructure, inadequate research funding and other structural challenges within the sector. Ononugbo said expanding the volume of credit available to agriculture would not

The Nigeria Agribusiness Register (NAR) has partnered with Propcom+ and other capital providers to strengthen access to investment for agribusinesses, with a focus on driving food security and economic growth. The initiative was unveiled at the Agriculture Summit Africa (ASA) Investment Deal Room in Abuja, where agribusinesses were connected with

The Kaduna State Government has identified year-round production of quality livestock feed as a key strategy for sustaining gains recorded in the state’s dairy sector under the five-year Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria (ALDDN) programme. The government said lessons and interventions from the programme would be integrated into its

The Federal Government through the National Agricultural Development Fund has entered into a partnership with German climate fintech company, YAPU Solutions GmbH, to strengthen its capacity to identify, assess and manage climate related risks within its agricultural finance portfolio. The partnership, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding, is expected to

As part of efforts to tackle food insecurity, create employment and strengthen economic activities in the South East, the South East Development Commission, SEDC, is set to commence its agro-mechanisation programme with the development of pilot farms across the region. The first of 15 projects planned across the senatorial zones

An investigation by AgroNigeria has established that comments attributed to retired Professor of Animal Products Science, Prof. Funso Sonaiya, in a report titled “U.S. Imports to Heighten Competition in Nigeria’s Meat Market,” were presented out of context, according to sources knowledgeable about the matter. The clarification follows concerns raised over