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Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

FMAFS

Nigeria’s federal ministry for agriculture and food security. The ministry publishes under the FMAFS identity on a federal government domain retained from its former name.

Jurisdiction
Nigeria
Government level
National
Authority type
Ministry
Status
Active

Visit the official websitehttps://agriculture.gov.ng/

Official name in local language

  • en Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

Responsibilities

Each item below is recorded from the authority’s own published material, not inferred from its name.

  • Farm policy

    Published on a federal government domain as Nigeria’s ministry of agriculture.

    Source: Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Nigeria

  • Food safety

    Food security is named in the ministry’s current official title.

    Source: Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Nigeria

Former name

Established by reading the body’s own material. An alias, an abbreviation or a legacy domain is not a former name.

Nigeria

  • Observed 2026-08-19Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) → Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS)date not published by the sourceThe ministry’s site was loaded on 2026-08-19 under the title Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, while continuing to serve from the fmard.gov.ng domain retained from its former name. The domain was verified as serving the current ministry, so the older name is a former title rather than a separate body.
    • The date the rename took effect is not established here. Only the date AgricultureID observed the current title is known.
    • A retained domain is evidence of continuity, not of a rename date.

History records what an official source published at a point in time. Where the source states the date a change took effect, that date is shown; where it does not, only the date AgricultureID observed the change is shown, and it is labelled as such.

Why this body is recorded

Official name of the body responsible in Nigeria.

Official source
Source page
https://agriculture.gov.ng/
What the source says
“Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security”(official name)
Standing
Verified against the sourcelast verified 2026-08-19
  • The ministry’s current title (Food Security) differs from the fmard.gov.ng domain retained from its former name; the domain was verified as serving the current ministry.

Evidence shows what an official source published and what AgricultureID made of it. The two are always shown separately: quoted text is the source’s own, and a normalised value is AgricultureID’s vocabulary, not a quotation.

Sources and verification

  • Official site loaded in a real browser on 2026-08-19; it resolved with HTTP 200 under the title “FMAFS – Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security”.

    Verified 2026-08-19 against https://agriculture.gov.ng/ · domain classification: Verified official

Important limitations

  • The ministry’s current title (Food Security) differs from the fmard.gov.ng domain retained from its former name; the domain was verified as serving the current ministry.

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