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The wheat value chain continues to play key roles in providing employments for the active segment of the population while strengthening the nation’s food security position

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu would today (Thursday) launch the State 5-Year Agricultural and Food Systems Roadmap (2021-2025) at the Continental Hotel, Kofo Abayomi, Victoria Island Lagos

For Nigeria to become self-sufficient and drastically reduce the importation of wheat by 60 per centover the next two years as targeted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), there is need for a concerted effort by government and other critical stakeholders within the wheat value chain to galvanize and aggressively drive the wheat development programmes in the country

Lagos State Government has called for private sector investment and collaboration in its agriculture sector particularly in the Red Meat Value Chain, Artisanal Fisheries and Livestock Feed Mills

In furtherance of efforts to curb the rate of malnutrition in the country, nutrition and agricultural experts have called on Nigerians to as a matter of priority begin to produce soybeans, a nutritious food source

A renowned university don, Professor Oluayo Anthony Bello-Olusoji has canvassed for the establishment of Shellfish Bank to deal with classification/mapping of the indigenous mollusks in Nigeria for cultivation and harvesting

security is at the heart of a nation’s development agenda. This comes with a clear commitment to end hunger, achieve food stability and eradicate malnutrition in all its forms, especially protein deficiency

To reiterate its commitment towards developing the agricultural sector, Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC, a member of Stanbic IBTC Group, has concluded plans to sponsor the Alternative Agriculture Equipment Trade Show organised by Developing Markets Associates (DMA).

Key players in the wheat production value chain have called on the Federal Government to summon a national stakeholders forum to address challenges in the production chain

Numbers tell a story. If you can connect one story with another, you can make plausible inferences. Two reports released last week showed the power of these connections.  The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics showed that the unemployment rate for the fourth quarter of 2020 hit 33.3 per cent. This is an increase from the 27.1 per cent recorded in Q2, of the same year