NIGERIA AGRICULTURE NEWS

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development has distributed relief items to fisher folks and fish processors at Keta in the Volta Region. This is to cushion the fisherfolks during...

As the lingering scarcity of foreign exchange (FX) is hampering their ability to import raw materials, manufacturers in Nigeria are increasingly shifting towards local substitutes. The FX scarcity in Africa’s...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Friday approved a $134 million loan for the National Agriculture Growth Scheme – Agro Pocket program in Nigeria to...

ONE Campaign, a global organisation campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030, has called on the government, donors and investors to make African agricultural productivity a priority...

Moroccan firm, OCP Group, has donated 15,000 tonnes of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilisers, a development that will support the country's fertiliser use and increase farm productivity efforts, according to Gerardine...

The Nsukka Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (NCCIMA) says agriculture businesses in the area are dying over the high cost of diesel. The Director-General of the chamber, Mr...

In the midst of a sunlit room in Nnewi, south-east Nigeria, a woman measures out four parts of sweet potato puree – the colour of apricot – into a large...

The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has reiterated the importance of agriculture in addressing unemployment, poverty and food shortage in Nigeria. Echono stated this in Abuja...

Olanrewaju Saheed (not real name), a 35-year-old Katsina-based farmer moved in 2020 to Chitimu village in Abuja, under Gwagwalada area council which shares boundary with Niger State. He shut down...

Major cocoa buyers have agreed to pay a premium and back a price floor on cocoa sold by Ghana and Côte d'Ivoireas part of an agreement reached last Friday to...