In the midst of scarcity and taste for polished rice, a Nigerian businessman, High Chief Emeka Agbanari, has unveiled the largest rice mill in Africa. CONVERSEER learned that the rice mill, located in Nnobi, Anambra State, South East Nigeria, has started production. According to sources, the rice is branded Seaman Parboiled Rice. “The rice meets…
…for all less privileged in Akwa Ibom as he commences construction of two more roads in Uyo Senatorial District The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno has announced that under his food palliative programme through the Bulk Purchase Agency, the less privileged captured in the social register will now be given the food items…
Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu has disclosed that his administration is driving a major reform in the agriculture sub- sector of the state. Governor Otu who spoke in his office Wednesday, when he received the report of the committee set up by his administration to get the digital soil mapping and fertility survey…
By Solomon Azu Cross River State governor, Senator Bassey Otu has been urged to urgently wade into the looming crisis over threats by the task force of the state Cocoa Allocation and Rehabilitation Committee to forcefully eject Cocoa farm allottees from their genuinely acquired Cocoa plots allotted to them by the previous administration to avoid…
By Mo Isa Farmers in northern Nigeria have been made to pay up to N120,000 to bandits in order for them to farm (planting and harvesting). This was revealed in a report by SB Morgan Intelligence, which added that failure to do so usually results in forfeiture of harvest, kidnapping or even death. According to…
By Chris Njoku 243 farmers in Cross River have received the Federal Government’s agricultural inputs and feeds in the ongoing National Poverty Reduction Programme with Growth Strategy (NPRGS). The farmers who were from different value chains in the state were first verified and validated to ensure that those receiving the items were the real farmers…
By Frank Ulom The European Union, EU Ambassador to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Ms Samuela Isopi, said the union has committed five million euros (€5m) to conserve wildlife and forestry in Cross River State. Isopi stated this on Friday while being hosted by the Governor of Cross River State,…
By Frank Ulom Nine farmers have been struck with the worst disaster after fire gutted their farm produce in Cross River State. CONVERSEER learned that the farmers were heartbroken when they arrived at their farms on Monday (22 Jan. 2024) just to see their yam barns completely razed. The ugly incident happened along Bishiri Road…
By Chris Njoku A group known as Rise and Thrive Humanitarian Foundation has distributed over 570, five kilogrammes bags of fertilisers to women vegetable farmers in the Anantigha area of Calabar-South Local Government Area in Cross River State. The donation which came in the form of an outreach initiative with the theme, “a blessing to…
By Chris Njoku Poultry farmers in Cross River have alleged that the cost of rearing chickens quadrupled in 2023 due to different factors. This was disclosed by Mrs Grace Ochang, a poultry farmer in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Friday in Calabar. Ochang who said in previous years, she used…
