African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina’s agripreneur fund set up last week to finance and attract African youths to agriculture business, has risen to $600,000. Adesina...
Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the Nigerian born President of the African Development Bank has became the sixth African to be awarded the World Food...
The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), DrAkinwumi Adesina, said that Africa will be spending up to US$110 billion net by 2025 on food importation if...
Managing Director of Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority NSIA Mr Uche Orji, (NSIA), has advised farmers to buy fertiliser early for the 2018 farming season to ease...
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) says it will reduce the price of locally produced rice from N18,000 per 50kg. bag to N6,000 within the...
An International non profit organisation Synergos has set up a yam for export preparation, conditioning and cleaning centre in Nigeria. Synergos is an international non-profit organisation...
The Federal Government says despite the revolution witnessed in the agricultural sector, the cost of food items is still high because of infrastructural deficit and export...
Minister of Agriculture Chief Auxdu Ogbe has said that at least 10,000 contractors are bidding for different contracts in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural...
Federal Government new export initiative titled Zero Oil Plan is to add $150 billion to Nigeria foreign reserves over the next 10 years. The plan is...
Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Chief Audu Ogbe has said that Nigeria exported N30 billion worth of agricultural products in the first three months...
Federal and states governments in the country have decided to set up an inter ministerial committee to work out measures to boost export of made...
The world’s six largest multilateral developments banks (MDBs) continued to make a strong contribution to the global climate challenge in 2016, increasing their climate financing in...
Global wheat supplies for 2017/18 are projected to lower as a 1.7-million-ton production increase is offset by a 2.7-million-ton decrease in beginning stocks. The primary production...
National Cashew Association of Nigeria, NCAN, yesterday, warned that unless something is done urgently to curb the activities of foreign produce buyers in the country that...
African Development Bank (AfDB) has commenced a new youth training drive in partnership with the Brazil-Africa Institute to train young farmers (aged 18-35 years) in commodity...