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Nigeria: Enhancing Food Security Through Public Private Partnership
This Day, 30 June 2020
The agriculture sector provides sufficient opportunity for Nigeria to diversify its economy, making it less susceptible to the volatility of oil prices. Read more »
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Nigeria: 2.4 Million Farmers to Benefit From Govt's N600 Billion Loan
This Day, 30 June 2020
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Sabo Nanono, has stated that the federal government has set aside N600 billion as a loan to support farmers. Read more »
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Nigeria: #fundnutritionng - Reviewing Nigeria's National Strategic Plan of Action for Nutrition (2014-2019)
Nigeria Health Watch, 24 June 2020
As part of efforts to improve Nigeria's nutrition statistics, a National Strategic Plan of Action for Nutrition (NSPAN) was devised for implementation between 2014 and 2019. It is… Read more »
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Nigeria: Farming Agriculture Into a Wealth Creating Sector
This Day, 29 June 2020
Farming is becoming an attractive vocation to Nigerians because food is a basic and essential need for survival. Without food in our stomachs, everything else is meaningless. A… Read more »
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Nigeria: Experts Push for Review of National Food Security Structure
This Day, 29 June 2020
Some agriculture experts have advocated a review of the national food security structure to forestall a likely food security crisis that may hit Nigeria as a result of the effect… Read more »
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Food Security Crisis Imminent in Nigeria - Experts
Daily Trust, 29 June 2020
Food security crisis may hit Nigeria as a result of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the agricultural sector, experts have said. Read more »
Financing Scheme to Assist Millions of Nigerian Farmers
The government has set aside over U.S.$1 billion to help farmers with interest-free loans, seeds and equipment to expand their operations and create employment opportunities - this as they increase the nation's food security, improve productivity and increase food exports, Minister of Agriculture Sabo Nanono has said.
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President Muhammadu Buhari says the directive to the Central Bank of Nigeria to stop providing foreign exchange for food importation aims to improve agricultural production and ... Read more »
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Nigeria has been relying solely on crude oil as its major source of revenue. Now the government has said unfolding events of the past few months, the coronavirus pandemic and the Read more »
