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[ad_1] The acquisition, according to the company will see Farmcrowdy owning majority stakes in Best Foods L&P, including its assets, team and customer contracts to supply meat across the country. Best Foods is an agribusiness group of over 16 years focused on the processing of livestock (Best Food Livestock and Poultry), farming (Best Food Fresh […]

[ad_1] The appeal was made in a communiqué issued at the end of the South West Zone Research Extension Farmer Input Linkage System (REFILS) Steering Committee meeting held in Iwo, Osun State. The meeting, which was attended by 44 participants from the ADPs in Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Oyo states; NARIs (National Horticultural Research […]

[ad_1] He said the population of Africa, which stands at 1.2 billion, would double to 2.5 billion by 2050, adding that it is only through food and agribusiness that the feat can be achieved. Adesina who disclosed this at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), while being conferred with an honorary doctorate degree, in […]

[ad_1] Edo State Government has called on communities with contiguous land sizes (minimum of 50 hectares) to offer their land for agricultural use under the state’s Agripreneur Programme. The Programme is an initiative of Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration, aimed at de-risking the agricultural value chain. It is being run in partnership with a number of […]

[ad_1] Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina, disclosed this after inspecting facilities of the pilot phase of the agricultural revolution of the Federal Government’s intervention programme in the local government area. Odedina explained that the facilities strategically situated near the border were to assist rice farmers in the area and to create jobs for the […]

[ad_1] What you get from your wheat farm is determined by a number of factors. Although wheat production in Nigeria is not largely mechanised, adopting aspects of global best practices, even among the smallholder farmers, has been very low. Despite the fact that the country spends about $4 billion annually importing over 3.5million tons of […]

[ad_1] The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mustapha Baba Shehuri, has said that the Turkish Government would invest $15 million (about N5.4) in the country’s agricultural sector in two years. The minister disclosed this when he received a Turkish investment delegation led by the commercial counsellor, Turkish Embassy in Nigeria, Mr. Onur […]

[ad_1] The Anambra State Government has promised to build world class fish villages in each of the three senatorial districts of the state to promote fishery and create employment. Mr Emeka Iloghalu, the managing director and chief executive officer of the  Anambra State Fisheries and Aquaculture Business Development Agency, made the disclosure in an interview […]

[ad_1] …Targets 1m farmers by 2025   BabbanGona Farmers Services Limited has spent over N6billion in its nine years of operation in Nigeria, giving loans to over 70,000 smallholder farmers for improved staple food production. The managing director of the organisation, Mr Bukola Masha, disclosed this at the emir’s palace, Kano after their three-day annual […]

[ad_1] The Minister of Agriculture, Sabo Nanono, has disclosed that the cashew sub-sector of agriculture generated over N280billion for the country’s foreign exchange earnings between 2015 and 2017. Nanono spoke through a director in the ministry, Mrs Karima Babaginda at the recent Cashew Stakeholders/Export Summit, organised by the Association of Cashew Farmers, Aggregators and Processors […]

[ad_1] Following several warnings from international organisations like United the Nations World Food Programme (WFP) that hunger crisis is looming in some parts of the country, the Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) and AgriFin Nigeria have begun strategic moves to tackle the situation headlong. The Federal Government established the NCX to provide a national trading platform […]

[ad_1]  Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President African Development Bank (AfDB) has advised the federal government to develop an integrated agricultural value chain and make Nigeria more competitive in the food and agriculture industry.  He gave the advice in his acceptance speech after he was conferred a Doctorate Degree in Agricultural Science, Honoris Causa, of the Federal […]