The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has targeted 42,400 household farmers in Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Sokoto and Taraba States. Out of the vulnerable households, 19, 898 smallholder farmers are in Borno state; affected by the over a decade insurgency. Flagging of the 2022 distribution of farm inputs, yesterday (Friday), in Maiduguri,…
Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the decision of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to approve three FAO-led projects in five countries, totalling $18 million in funding. The three new projects – in Nigeria, Venezuela and a regional initiative encompassing Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda – will improve the…
Kwiza Mbumbeh, Maiduguri The Food and Agriculture Organisations (FAO) of United Nations is training 51 facilitators of the Farmers’ Field School (FFS) in Northeast. According to the organization, the training of facilitators was to build their capacities to facilitate innovations in the agricultural sector of economy. He said that the training and capacity building of…
