Nigeria Agriculture News

Joint border operations seize 22 trailer loads of imported rice in eight months

Joint Border Operations Drill Sector 3, of the North Central zone, says it...

NIRSAL Microfinance Bank begins CBN N50bn COVID-19 facility disbursement

NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, NMFB, yesterday, commenced the disbursement of the Central Bank of...

How To Venture Into Livestock Feed Business

Livestock Feed manu­facturing refers to the process of producing animal feed from raw...

COVID-19 Lockdown: Farmers Share Experiences, Call For Govt’s Support

LAGOS – As the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic is biting hard...

Farm Tech investment up 370% in 6 years. How will Covid-19 impact 2020 trends?

Come rain, shine, or coronavirus, there’s just no halting the AgFunder Research mothership....

COVID-19: Ogun Govt. clears air on movement of agricultural supplies

The Ogun Ministry of Agriculture says there was no movement of Cattle into Isheri...

AgFunder Digitalk #2: Asian agri-foodtech & sustainability amid food security challenges

Covid-19 started in Asia, and the region was the first to feel the...

BRIEF: Welsh hydroponics startup Phytoponics raises fresh round of £500k

The Welsh controlled environment farming company Phytoponics designs, develops, and supplies Deep Water...

BREAKING: Pivot Bio raises $100m Series C to meet demand for sold-out nitrogen-fixing microbe product

Agriculture has a big nitrogen problem. As farmers spread synthetic nitrogen fertilizer on...

COVID-19: Institute advocates for adoption of organic agriculture

The Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI) Ilorin  in Kwara State is...

Herdsmen operate from 30 camps in Delta forests

INVESTIGATIONS by Vanguard have revealed that over 86 persons have been killed, with...

Lockdown: Cheaper ways to produce your poultry feeds

The effect of COVID-19 is biting hard on livestock farmers particularly those in...

What onion farmers must do to get bumper harvest

Onion is one of the most-prized crops because growers can make a fortune...

Covid-19 is accelerating inevitable food trends but which changes will stick?

The news cycle for the entire Covid-19 pandemic crisis has been awash with...

Customs closes gate to stop Oyo govt from returning 1,800 bags of rice

The imbroglio between the Oyo State government and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over...

FARMVEST SEALS MORINGA CONTRACT, EYES GLOBAL MARKET

-Farmvest Agricapital SA secures a multi-year contract agreement for production and processing of Moringa Farmvest...

Covid-19: I can’t share FG’s rice to Akwa Ibom people, may not be safe — Gov Emmanuel

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has suspected that the 1800 bags of...

Starbucks enters China’s agrifood investment scene with Sequoia Capital partnership

Starbucks is set to become an investor in China’s tech startup scene after...

Poisonous rice saga: League demands sack of Customs’ CG, controllers over show of shame

 AFTER a careful appraisal of what can be regarded as a show of...

Zoetis’ acquisition of Performance Livestock Analytics is major milestone for livestock tech space

Monsanto’s acquisition of The Climate Corporation in 2013 marked a major turning point...