Nigeria Agriculture News

Investing In Poultry Value Chain Business

Poultry farming is the rais­ing of domesticated birds such as chickens, tur­keys, ducks, and...

The implications of Covid-19 on ESG and impact investing in agrifood

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in our new What The Fork? series of...

Farmers Seek Right Environment, Support To Meet Nation’s Food Needs

Last Updated on 12:44 pmLAGOS – Nigerian farmers have assured that they are...

COVID-19: Fish Farmers Support State Governments With Palliatives

 Fish farmers under the aegis of Catfish and Allied Fish Farmers Association of...

Israel’s Saturas secures an initial $3m of Series B funding

Two years on from raising its $4 million Series A round, the Israeli precision irrigation technology...

IITA develops cheaper, faster tool for identifying cassava pest -Report

Scientists at CGIAR-IITA have developed a more cost and time-effective molecular diagnostic tool...

BeeHero blossoms with $4m seed round to commercialize precision pollination

Although the number of crops that rely on bee pollination is increasing, according...

Africa Day: CSOs task African leaders on health, water, agriculture, others

AS African Union, AU, formerly known as Organisation of African Unity, OAU, marked...

Achieving accelerated wheat production in Nigeria

Given both its burgeoning population and current global health and economic crisis, the need...

Brrrief! InspiraFarms closes Series B to roll out solar powered cold storage units across Africa

Expanding the cold chain across the African continent is both necessary and hard. A...

Australian insurance giant IAG invests in CSIRO-backed ag and climate platform

Digital Agriculture Services (DAS) has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Firemark Ventures –...

Makinde distributes seedlings, herbicides to Oyo farmers

By David AdeoyeGov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has distributed seedlings and herbicides...

Mike Smith Appointed First Milk’s New Director

First Milk has announced today (May 28) Mr Smith will succeed Jim Baird as...

Step–by-step guide to effective herbicide use

Increased rain is causing rapid growth of weeds on farms, thereby threatening crops.Farmers,...

COVID-19: Olam wades in, donates N1billion

Olam Group, one of the country’s largest food and agri-business companies has contributed...

China’s meat import bans – let’s put them into context

According to the headlines, a new challenge has risen for our agriculture industry, with China...

Farming: Benue proposes 2-day leave per week for civil servants

The Benue State Government has proposed a two-day leave of absence each week...

Syngenta invests in $7m seed round for Israeli autonomous chemical reduction tech Greeneye

Regulators across the world are gradually pushing back against the overuse of chemicals on...

West Africa at risk of desert locusts’ invasion – FAO

New swarms of desert locusts will threaten West Africa in June, the Food...

Fly, my pretties! NextProtein closes $11.2m Series A to scale up insect production in Tunisia

NextProtein, a French-Tunisian startup working on new ways to produce insect-based animal feed...