Nigeria Agriculture News

Three AgFunder portfolio companies selected as World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers

We’re proud to announce that The World Economic Forum has named three AgFunder...

Syngenta Group launches after taking $5.6bn Chinese biz on board

Switzerland’s Syngenta has relaunched and rebranded following its merger with the agricultural businesses...

BREAKING: TechAccel subsidiary RNAissance acquires RNAgri to boost manufacturing capacity

The biopesticide market will reach an estimated $10 billion by 2025 and this...

EU puts $20m into building a sugarbeet biorefinery to make organic acids

With the pursuit of carbon neutrality still looming large over political and corporate...

Herdsmen Attacks: Anambra to establish Forest Guards

WORRIED  by the space of criminal activities in the state, especially, the murderous...

Jai Kisan banks $3.94m for its farmer finance platform

Ask any shopkeeper, milkman, dhobi (launderer), or other merchant in India how many...

‘Data-driven inclusion of small-scale farmers can boost food security’

Experts have said data utilisation to include small-holder farmers could boost means of...

Consider this crop, you can harvest for 70 years

Plant it now and the journey of a 70-year harvest will start after...

How Kastina can be rescued from bandits – Farmers’ leader

The National President of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Kabir Ibrahim, has...

Food prices highest in Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Edo in May — NBS

Prices of food items rose highest in Ebonyi, Bayelsa and Edo States in...

Gov Inuwa Pegs Price Of Fertilizer At N5,000 Per Bag For 2020 Farming Season

Gombe – Reprieve may come the way of farmers in Gombe State amidst...

Herder, 22, jailed 1 year over open grazing in Benue

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ court has sentenced a 22-year-old herder, Bala Juli of Adadu...

Sollum Technologies raises C$2.7m to expand greenhouse LED tech in North America

The smart greenhouse market could reach $2.1 billion by 2025, increasing from $1.4...

Ohanaeze unveils agricultural programme for Igbo youths

Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Wing has unveiled an agricultural programme initiative, aimed at encouraging...

Herdsmen: Rise up, defend yourselves, we’ve been pushed to the wall, Ohanaeze tells Igbo

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze ndigbo, yesterday, rose against the menace of herdsmen...

The need for radical shift in Africa’s agricultural funding models

With unsustainable forms of intensification driving negative social and environmental impacts in Africa,...

How the Colorado Potato Beetle could inspire a Covid-19 vaccine

Switching sharply to developing a vaccine for Covid-19 appears to have proved a...

A sweet fruit beyond reach

Editor’s Note: Dmytro Lennyi is agritech practice leader at Intellias, a software engineering...

GFI and Gastrotope launch alt-protein innovation challenge for India

The Good Food Institute (GFI) India and agrifood accelerator Gastrotope have launched a...

Smallholder farmer inclusion: Nigeria, data and the path to food security

OVER the last couple of weeks, there have been a lot of conversations around...