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The Nigeria Britain Association 2018 Annual lecture provides a platform to lend our voice to the national desire to shift focus and attention to agriculture and reposition it as the bedrock of Nigeria’s economy. The seminar, which is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, 21st of March at the Agip Recital Hall, Muson Center, Onikan, Lagos, […]
At BASICS Cassava Workshop, Farmers List Challenges, Commercial Cassava farmers, commonly called Basics Village Seed Entrepreneurs (VSEs) have identified lack of access to needed land; inability to get loans, farming inputs, chemicals, mechanicals and timely technical information as impediments to massive cassava production in their states. The VSEs, numbering 50 and drawn from Abia, Akwa […]
AFEX Commodities Exchange, the only private commodity exchange in Nigeria will host a workshop on Thursday March 1st 2018 in Lagos that brings over 90 corporates and startups in the finance and technology sectors into the same space with agriculture entrepreneurs to cocreate a functional prototype for collaboration that nurtures the competitiveness of the agribusiness […]
The Federal Government, has said that the on-going Kaduna International Trade Fair is well-timed and aptly linked to the nation’s industrial revolution plan. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 39th edition of the Kaduna Fair in Kaduna, President Muhammed Buhari who was represented by the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Enelamah, […]
An international non-governmental organisation, Oxfam has highlighted the critical role of Right to Food campaign and access of land in solving inequality in Nigeria. (Oxfam Food Campaign) The organisation, which launched and implemented its strategic partnership programme in 25 countries in 2015, has three basic theories for change: Right to food, conflict and fragility and […]
Kebbi Daily Trust Agric Exhibition, The Kebbi State Government, in collaboration with Media Trust Limited, publishers of the Daily Trust newspapers, is to hold a one-day farmers interactive forum and exhibition with the theme ‘Agriculture As Solution to the Economic and Social Programmes of Nigeria.’ The event is expected to hold in Birnin Kebbi on […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the hosting by Nigeria of an international conference on saving the Lake Chad. The conference is to revitalize the basin’s ecosystem for sustainable livelihood, security and development. According to a statement by the Media aide of the President, Garba Shehu, this is the first time an international conference on Lake […]
Mrs Folusho Olaniyan, the Programme Director, Agra Innovate West Africa, says over 40 exhibitors and 60 speakers are expected at its exhibition this year. Olaniyan said via a statement in Lagos on Monday that the annual exhibition, which involved crop production, crop processing and manufacturing concerns, would hold in Lagos from Nov. 21 to Nov. […]
By Adeyemi Bamidele Ezekiel HarvestPlus is partnering with the Enugu State SME center to host the third edition of its annual Nutritious Food Fair (NFF). This event is scheduled to take place at the Michael Okpara Square in Enugu on 28—30 November, 2017. NFF 2017 will among other objectives facilitate at least 3000 jobs […]
Agrobusiness Times, Nigeria’s premier online medium on agriculture and its related businesses has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Cooman Event Servi ce, CEMS, for the International Agro Chemical and Agro Equipment Expo, West Africa, (NIAA EXPO WEST AFRICA) scheduled for January 16-18, 2018, at the prestigious Abuja International Conference Centre, FCT Abuja, Nigeria, […]
Agrobusiness Times, Nigeria’s premier online medium on agriculture and its related businesses has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the US-Nigeria Trade Council for the next US-Nigeria AgriBusiness (Non-Oil) Investment Summit, scheduled for November 16-18, 2107, at the prestigious Hilton Atlanta Airport Hotel, in Atlanta, USA, as official media partners. By this MOU, AgroBusiness […]
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commissioned an integrated poultry farm and animal feed mill in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The inauguration of the N20 billion facility, built by Olam Group was the President’s first public function outside the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) since his return from London, where he spent 103 days on […]
A former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi, on Thursday provided insight to how countries with similar challenges as Nigeria fixed their economies and left Africa’s most populous nation behind. He said Nigeria needs to embark on aggressive savings to return to growth pattern and sustain it. He was speaking in Lagos at the annual conference […]
Mr Suffyan Koroma, Food and Agriculture Organisation Country Representative to Nigeria, has said that the organisation will organise a livestock development conference in August to address challenges in the sector. Koroma made the disclosure when he presented his letter of commission to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, in Abuja on Tuesday. He […]
President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, in a goodwill message at the ‘Feed Nigeria Summit (FNS) 2017 series, held in Lagos said Nigeria is well-positioned in the matrix of feeding Africa sustainably. Adesina said the summit provides an excellent platform for discussing how to further ramp up support for agriculture as […]