Federal Government
Agriculture Farming

Don seeks subsidised inputs for farmers

From Our Correspondent A university lecturer, Dr Suleiman Lawal, has urged the Federal Government to provide farm inputs to farmers at subsidised rate. Lawal, a lecturer at Economics Department, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina, gave the advice on Sunday in Kastina. He said such subsidy would help to stem rising cost of food in the […]

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Agriculture

Nigeria’ll earn N18bn from grain silos concession – Minister

By Our Correspondent Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammad Abubakar, says the Federal Government will earn N18 billion from the concessions of its 19 silos to the private sector. Abubakar said the government concession the silos to enable farmers to have access to storage facilities. He announced the government plan at the opening of […]

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