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...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday inaugurated the N30 billion Integrated Feed Mill, Hatchery and Breeder Farm in Kaduna. Middle East Olam International Business Head, Mr. Vinod...
Nigeria has been chosen as one of the eleven priority countries to benefit from the US $280 million Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa (PIATA)...
The Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR), has identified Agriculture as Africa’s quiet revolution, with a focus on SMEs and smallholder farmers creating the high productivity jobs...
Ten poultry farmers registered under Nigeria’s broiler out-grower scheme, natnuPreneur, have become the first beneficiaries of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s poultry Anchor Borrowers Scheme (ABP)....
Central Bank of Nigeria has reviewed the commercial credit scheme with the intention of making the N200 billion funding more accessible to farmers. The apex bank...
The Federal Government says it will stop issuing fish importation quota to importers, saying that the venture was no longer sustainable. Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister...
Africa richest man Alhaji Aliko Dangote President of Dangote Group, has said that his group of companies would invest $450 million in agriculture in Niger State...
The Food sufficiency goal of the Federal government has receivied a major boost in Kebbi state through the collaboration between WACOT Rice Limited and the Kebbi...
The University of Ilorin, and a Lagos-based Company, Origin Group Nigeria Ltd., have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for commercial production of honey through the...
“It is impossible for government to ever be able to provide all the capital needed to invest in infrastructure, or to catalyze economic activity. The best...
Helios Investment Partners (“Helios”), the leading Africa-focused private investment firm, has acquired100% of Fertilisers and Inputs Holding B.V. the “Company”, which holds Louis Dreyfus Company’s (“LDC”)...