Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has appealed to commercial banks to reduce their lending rates to farmers to spur the development of...
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that the deepening of partnership with the World Bank in agricultural development would usher the state into a...
In an effort to protect local production, Tanzania has placed a blanket ban on the importation of carrots from Kenya. The ban has aggravated the cross-border...
No fewer than 33,974 rice farmers in Zamfara state are to benefit from the Anchor Borrowers loan of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The Rice...
African Development Bank AfDB said it has initiated a $40 million project to develop agriculture in Nigeria and 26 other African countries. Dr Adeniyi Adediran, the...
Two years after he performed the ground-breaking for the 274-kilometre superhighway of Cross River state, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned the state’s Rice Seedling Factory...
A Nigerian company, Dalisatech Limited, has produced a machine that automates garri production, from cassava peeling to frying into the end product, a popular staple in the...
Renaissance Capital, a leading emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has initiated coverage on the shares of Nigeria’s staple food producers: Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote...
The Nigerian Government says it will shut the land border between it and a neigbouring country in a few days time to avoid smuggling of foreign...
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has estimated that remittances sent to developing countries could cross 6.5 trillion dollars between 2015 and 2030, involving over one...
Local palm oil producer, Okomu Oil Palm Company in Udo in Ovia South West local government area of Edo state, has declared a dividend payment of...
Banks in Ivory Coast are struggling to secure repayment on up to 200 billion CFA francs ($348 million) in outstanding loans made to cocoa exporters during...
Chinese importers seeking alternative sources of sorghum as risks of a trade dispute with the U.S. linger are finding Nigeria, the world’s second-largest producer, unable to...
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state is concluding the mapping of its land resources to determine areas suitable for large-scale agricultural projects...
Chairman of Okomu Oil Company Plc., Gbenga Oyebode SAN, has pledged that the company is committed to creating not less than 40,000 jobs with expansion of...