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The Nigerian authorities want to be reassuring about the supply of fertilizers. Certainly, said the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, imports are likely to be disrupted. But, he reassured, the national production of fertilizers is sufficient to meet demand.

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Alhaji Sabo Nanono, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has allayed fears that the impact of the Coronavirus disease will lead to scarcity of fertiliser for farmers as the rains set in.

Nanono made this known when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) flagship programme, NAN Forum in Abuja.

He said while there was no doubt that importation of fertiliser would be affected, he assured that ...

The African Fertilizer Development Financing Facility (MAFDE) launched a $ 2.2 million project to provide Nigerian fertilizer suppliers with financial support to improve the supply of 200,000 smallholder farmers.

The commercial credit guarantee project is the first of MAFDE in the West African nation and will involve 10 fertilizer suppliers, 12 agricultural traders and 120 agricultural retailers. The project will also train farmers in the proper use of fertilizers ...

The chief executives were Dr Abayomi Olaniyan of the National Horticultural Research ...

The newly signed National Fertilizer Quality Control Act 2019 has awarded a stiffer penalty of at least five years imprisonment for offenders. The Act, assented into law by President Muhammadu Buhari in October 2019, prohibits unauthorised activities of manufacturers, blenders or importers and distributors of fertilizer.

The Act also stipulates the procedure for obtaining permits or certificate of registration; provide timeframe for issuance of authorisation by the prescribed authority; as ...