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Nigeria: NALDA Recovers Abandoned Farm Estates in 21 States
This Day, 10 June 2021
The Executive Secretary, National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA), Paul Ikonne, has said the authority had identified and recovered various abandoned farm estates… Read more »
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Nigeria: 30,000 Litres of Rabbit Urine Harvested for Fertiliser Production
Daily Trust, 13 June 2021
A federal government agency, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) says it has harvested over 30,000 litres of rabbit urine and 1,000kg of rabbit droppings… Read more »
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Nigeria: NALDA Derives Organic Fertilizer From Rabbits to Boost Farm Yields
This Day, 4 March 2021
The Executive Secretary/and Chief Executive, National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA), Paul Ikonne, has disclosed that about 25, 000 litters of urine had been… Read more »
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Nigeria: Rabbit Farmers to Make N100, 000 Monthly From Urine, Poo - Nalda
Daily Trust, 10 December 2020
The National Agricultural Development Authority (NALDA) has rolled out a programme to engage 17,000 rabbit farmers in the south with about 5,000 rabbits already distributed to… Read more »
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Nigeria: 17,000 Young Nigerians to Be Trained in Rabbit Farming - Official
Premium Times, 2 December 2020
The authority would make available the rabbits, cage, vaccine and training for the youths free. Read more »
Rabbit Urine the New Liquid Gold for Nigerian Farmers
The National Agricultural Land Development Authority has said that it has harvested over 30,000 litres of rabbit urine and 1,000 kilograms of rabbit droppings for fertilizer production in the country. Farmers using rabbit urine in the production save on pesticide and fertilizer costs as the liquid offer major nutrients required by crops. Organic fertilizer companies and a few rabbit farmers are turning the urine into a business venture. Rabbit droppings also serve as organic manure and help to boost nitrogen and ammonia content in crops.
NALDA has recovered farm estates that were abandoned in the last 20 years in Katsina, Ekiti, Gombe, Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, Niger, Kebbi, Oyo, Imo, Lagos, Delta, Bauchi, Yobe, Kaduna, Benue, Kogi, Osun, Anambra, Akwa Ibom and Abia States. It plans to start animal husbandry programme, which included rabbitry and goat rearing in some pilot states that have recorded huge success. The rabbit rearing programme kicked off about three months ago after President Muhammadu Buhari flagged off the National Young Farmers Scheme, NYFS, in November 2020. The pilot States for the programme are Imo, Abia, Oyo and Cross River.
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