Our Investment Drive In Agriculture Lifting Our People Out Of Poverty, Mbah Tells IFAD

By Tony Adibe Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has said the investment drive of his administration over the past nine months in office had started to lift poor citizens out of the pit of poverty through its deliberate efforts and determination. Governor Mbah disclosed this while receiving the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)’s Associate Vice President (AVP), Dr. Donal Brown, and members of his team who were on a working and inspection visit to the state in Enugu on Wednesday. This was even as the AVP lauded the…

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NDE To Train 120 Enugu Youths On Confectionery, Baking, Souvenir

By NewsBits The National Directorate of Empowerment (NDE), Wednesday flagged off the training of about 120 youths in Enugu State on Confectionery, Baking and Souvenir making them eligible to become employers of labour. The Enugu State Coordinator of NDE, Engr. Thecla Ndibuagu, who declared the training open on behalf of the Director General, NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, said that the training was in line with NDE’s mandate to fight mass unemployment with emphasis on self-reliance and skills acquisition. The beneficiaries will enjoy the privilege of not only being their…

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5,104 Dry Season Farmers In Enugu Benefits From ATASP Water Pumps

By NewsBits No fewer than 5,104 dry season farmers in Enugu State have benefited from the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Programme Phase One (ATASP-1) water pumps for dry season irrigation farming. The 5,104 dry season farmers in Enugu State within 52 farming clusters (or farming cooperatives) are within the Adani and Omor farming zone. Presenting the 52 water pumping machines on Wednesday in Enugu, the state’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro Industrialisation, Mr Patrick Ubru, said that the gesture was just the first step of ensuring that Enugu State become…

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Enugu Government Acquires Additional 200 Hectares Of Land For Cassava Cultivation In Nkanu East LGA

By NewsBits The Enugu State government has acquired additional 200 hectares of land for the cultivation of cassava in Nkanu East Local Government Area of the state. The State Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro-Industrialisation, Mr Patrick Ubru disclosed this during an inspection tour of cassava farmlands in Amagunze, Nkanu East Local Government Council. Mr. Ubru, who was accompanied by the Chairman of Nkanu East LGA, Hon. Sydney Okechukwu Edeh, expressed delight over the fertility of lands for the cultivation of a variety of crops in the area, saying the state…

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Enugu To Build Bioethanol Plants, As Aninri Donates 500 Hectares Of Lands For Cassava Cultivation.

By Tony Adibe The Enugu State Government said it has acquired 500 hectares of lands in Uhuezeoke, Okpanku in Aninri Local Government Area of the state to support the bioethanol value chain development in the state. The lands were donated by the community. NewsBits recalls that the State Governor, Dr Peter Mbah had in June disclosed the government’s interest in partnering with the federal government to cultivate over 100,000 hectares of land to boost cassava production for export and create jobs for youths. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro-Industrialisation, Mr.…

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Governor Mbah Releases ₦60 Million Counterpart Fund For World Bank’s Livestock Project

By Tony Adibe The Enugu State governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has approved the immediate release of sixty-million-naira counterpart fund for the World Bank-assisted Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES) to boost productivity in the state. This development came as the State Project Coordinator, Dr. Ifeyinwa Nnajieze, commended the governor’s determination to grow the state’s economy from $4.4 billion to $30 billion, eradicate poverty, scale up agro-allied activities and engage women and youths in the livestock value chain. NewsBits recalls that the governor had committed N274m as its counterpart fund…

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Former President Obasanjo Advocates Single Digit Interest Rate For Agric Loans

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged the Federal government to reduce agriculture interest loan to single digit to help transform the agribusiness. Obansanjo made the call on Friday in Abuja at the Launch of Youths in Agribusiness project with the theme, “Enabling Scaling of Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Food Solutions.’’ He said that if youths had to go to bank to borrow money at the rate of 20 per cent interest rate, it would be difficult for them to succeed in agric business. The former president appealed to the Federal…

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Firm, NEPC Introduce Nsukka Farmers To Export Business, High Yielding Seedlings

By NewsBits At least 120 local farmers in Nsukka area of Enugu State have been sensitised and taught procedures for exporting their produce to earn foreign exchange and get more money from their yields. The Ski-Business Solutions Limited also introduced the farmers to quick grow and high yield seedlings in palm front and jumbo-cashew nuts meant to reposition them for effective export business. The seminar, which was organised by Ski-Business Solutions Limited, NEPC and Udoamaka Diogbe Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society Limited, was themed: “Innovative Seminar on Cashew Nuts Production and…

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Tension As Herdsmen Kill Man In Fresh Imo Community Invasion

Community Stakeholders, Others Call On Imo Govt, Security Agencies, To Come To Rescue Obvious tension is currently in Agwa town in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State as persons suspected to be herdsmen have killed one Emeka Nnorom, an okada rider. The incident, which happened last weekend followed a fresh invasion of the community by the suspects, who have occupied parts of the community. The herdsmen were said to have been operating in some parts of the clan, particularly Umuekpu Village since the past four years, destroying their crops…

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