The United Nations Development Programme UNDP, has unveiled an agro-challenge programme to enhance the rapid growth of Nigerian agricultural sector. The UNDP said the programme was...
Federal Government in a bid to diversify the economy from oil and gas dependent, President Muhammadu Buhari, has launched Special Agro-Processing Zones Programme, SAPZ, in seven...
The International Fund for Agriculture IFAD, said in Abuja that it has granted five million dollars for Nigeria on climate resilience and to boost dry season...
The global Roundtable on Sustainable Oil Palm, is committing 300,000 dollars to the implementation of its oil palm community engagement and outreach programme in EDO. Its...
BUA Group has said it was no longer interested in the 50,000 hectares of land allocated to it by Kogi state in 2012 due its inaccessibility...
World Bank President David Malpass has said that Food, energy and fertiliser cycle going into 2023 presents grave danger. In a dinner speech in Washington to...
The International Monetary Fund has said that food crisis may hit Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad as a result of the recent incidents of flooding in some...
The gauge of global food commodity prices declined for the sixth consecutive month in September, with sharp declines in vegetable oil prices more than offsetting higher...
A fifth vessel chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), NEW ISLAND, has arrived at Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Chornomorsk and will deliver...
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has launched the Shea Export Development Project (2022-2025) for export growth. Dr Ezra Yakusak, Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of NEPC,...
Staffers of FADAMA, Community and Social Development Agency, CSDA, and Medium and Small Scale Enterprises, MSME, in Ebonyi State have cried out following the non-payment of...
As part of Union Bank’s commitment to driving financial inclusion in Nigeria, the Bank has partnered with WACOT Rice Limited – a rice processing company, to...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo now a farmer, has said that only 10 per cent of the cashew produced in Nigeria is gainfully processed for export locally....
Nigeria quest for valued added export of its primary products received a boost as the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food for Progress programme entered into...
Crown Flour Mill (CFM) Limited, the wheat milling subsidiary of Olam Agri, a global agribusiness in food, feed, fiber, has unveiled an impressive first-year report of...