By Our Reporter ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State has been honoured with the Best Governor in Agriculture and Food Security at the 2025 Africa Food Heroes Awards. The event which held Thursday at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre in Abuja was in recognition of Governor Otu’s administration’s significant contributions to…
By Archibong Emmanuel CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – Cross River State Commissioner for Education, Senator Professor Stephen Odey, has encouraged secondary school students to combine theoretical knowledge with practical agriculture to become self-reliant. Odey gave this advice while addressing winners of the 2025 Young Farmers Quiz Competition, organised by the State Committee of the Young Farmers Club,…
By Our Reporter ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – The Center for Agropreneurship and Green Economy is set to host the Africa Food Heroes Awards tomorrow, November 20, 2024, at 4 PM at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre in Abuja. The prestigious award ceremony will recognise and celebrate the outstanding contributions of eminent personalities in the areas of…
By Mercy Omoike LAGOS (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Systems has wrapped up its 2025 Agrithon with 36 applicants reaching the grand finale on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Lagos agrithon is an initiative of the Ministry and the Lagos Agrinnovation Club formed in…
By Felicia Imohimi ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Agbeyewa Farms Ltd. for cassava production. NALDA Executive Secretary, Mr Cornelius Adebayo, said at the signing in Abuja on Friday that the partnership aimed to accelerate land development and large-scale cassava cultivation. He…
By Vivian Ihechu ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – For many years, families like Faustin Menzan’s in Côte d’Ivoire, who farm cocoa in West Africa, have been suffering. They help produce chocolate for the whole world, but they never see enough money to live better. Their farms are old, the market price for cocoa is never stable,…
By Christian Njoku Calabar (NAN, CONVERSEER) – Dr Sani Abiodun, National Project Coordinator (NPC) of the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprise in the Niger Delta (LIFE-ND), has urged 630 new LIFE-ND incubatees not to see their selection as national cake. Abiodun, who disclosed this on Monday in Calabar during a One-Day Orientation Session of the FGN/NDDC/IFAD-assisted…
By Christian Njoku BAKASSI (NAN, CONVERSEER) – A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has disclosed that introducing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) was no solution to Nigeria’s food insecurity. This was disclosed by Ms Joyce Brown, HOMEF’s Director of Programmes, on Thursday during a one-day practical agroecology training for farmers, with the…
By Christian Njoku CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – In the heart of Nigeria’s last remaining rainforests, a growing crisis is unfolding. Once symbols of nature’s Majesty’s, elephants in the Mbe Mountains of Cross River are now seen as threats by local farmers. The reason is their devastating crop raids that are pushing already struggling communities to the…
By Christian Njoku AKPABUYO (CONVERSEER) – Every morning, as the sun rises, Mary Okon, a young lady in Ikot Nakanda, Akpabuyo Local Government Area, Cross River State, rolls up her sleeves and goes about her job of feeding the fishes in her fish farm, looking out for anything strange. Dressed in jean trousers and rain-boots,…
