Nigeria Agriculture News

FG to register cattle from neighbouring countries

Sixty years after the suspension of registration of cattle, sheep and goats coming from...

Agriculture Stakeholders Differ On Economic Growth

 Nigeria’s economy is still rated as the largest in Africa by international rating...

Functional Cold Chain System Vital For Achieving Sustainable Food, Nutrition Security

 A functional cold chain system has been said to be vital for achieving...

Plantain, Money Spinner For Those That Understand The Value Chain – NIHORT ED

 The Executive Director, National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Ibadan, Oyo State, Dr. Abayomi...

Nigeria Partners AfDB On SAPZ Development

 The Federal Government is partnering with African Development Bank (AfDB) on the Special...

Snail Farming Business

Snail farming is a lucrative business enterprise that is yet to be appreciated...

Bitter Kola: Another Export Commodity To Turn In Hard Currency For You

Last week, I engaged you on a discourse on Sesame Seeds export that...

Agri-FoodTech is global: here’s a list of the top 15 deals outside the US in 2019

The US still dominates investment in the agri-foodtech space, with 44% of all...

NFGCS initiates hydroponic livestock fodder programme

The Nigerian Farmers Group and Cooperative Society, NFGCS, on Thursday, initiated the Hydroponic...

Buhari commends Kebbi rice project

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the Kebbi State governor Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu...

Precision biologics: the key to reducing antibiotic use in livestock?

Pathogens, as is clear to anyone tracking the outbreak of Covid-19 on humans...

Poachers kill Kenya’s white giraffes

Kenya’s conservancy was thrown into bewilderment when two white giraffes (a female one...

How farmers can get healthy, bigger yams as season approaches

Yam farmers are yet to embrace new methods of growing yam vine in...

Understanding the desert locust

Desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a large herbivore insect that looks like a...

African farmers get platform to sell produce directly to buyers worldwide

Selina Wamucii, the platform that helps businesses from anywhere in the world to...

EXCLUSIVE: Crop Enhancement raises $8m Series B to support trials for its ‘safer chemistry’ pesticide coating

When you think about putting a film around something in the food space,...

500 youths to be trained in farmer’s business school

No fewer than 500 Nigerian youths will be trained on Agricultural Skill Acquisition...

What do Walt Disney, Chuck Berry and Mark Twain have in common?

Editor’s Note: Dr Belinda Clarke is director of UK-based Agri-TechE (formerly known as...

Input marketplace InstaAgro raises $600k to target Brazil’s underserved small farmers

Small farmers in Brazil have a new option when it comes to procuring...

Biotalys increases Series C to €45m to mimic the immunity of certain animals in biological crop protection

Chemical fungicides are a tried and tested way to get rid of fungal...