Support raises farmers’ productivity, income of 99,400 households, says FAO

The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Country Representative in Nigeria, Suffyan Koroma, has...

Lifting Nigerian farmers out of poverty with Lagos’ model agro-market

Agro-economists like the current President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina...

Amid water shortage, high price forces massive tomato cultivation

High market demand and rise in the price of tomato has instigated a...

Why Nigeria is losing cocoa wealth

• Adesina, Ogbeh failed to resuscitate production• experts watching current agric minister’s body...

Operation desert corn: Bayer opens new high-tech greenhouse in Arizona

The German chemicals and life science giant Bayer has opened its new automated...

How Culture Biosciences is helping biomanufacture agrifood, pharma products from microbes at scale

You may have heard a growing number of agri-foodtech startups talk about how...

Herdsmen kill four in renewed attack in Benue

Suspected herdsmen have killed four people in a renewed attack in Kwande local...

Nigeria Spends $500m Annually On Importation of Palm Oil- OPC Africa Boss

ABUJA- The Managing Director, OCP Africa Fertilizers Nigeria Ltd, Mohamed Hettiti said Nigeria...

How founders can prepare for the tail risk of COVID-19

Editors Note: Rob Leclerc is a founding partner of AgFunder, where he co-leads...

Priva is seeking horticulture tech startups for its new Priva Horticulture Innovation Lab

If you are a startup innovating in the horticulture space, there is a...

Agriculturist to partner Unilorin on commercial farming

Mr Ajisefinni Ayodeji, an Agriculturist and Entrepreneur, has expressed his readiness to partner...

FG warns rice millers, dealers against outrageous price

He explained that there is no justification for selling a bag of rice...

FG urges youths, farmers to take advantage of border policy

The Nanono made the call during the project inauguration of the Youth Agro-preneurial...

Agric varsity’s feed research lowers cost, duration of poultry production

The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, through its research on...

‘How rice farmers in Taraba maximise rice production’

Farmers in Taraba State have taken maximum advantage of the closure of land...

Agro-climate information gets boost as UNILORIN hosts NiMET’s weather station

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) has concluded arrangements to establish a Regional Centre...

Soil fertility decline threatens food sufficiency

• Nigeria Has High Declining Soil Fertility — FAO • Soil Overdue For Intensive...

FUNAAB, French government collaborate nn acuaculture, others

This was disclosed when the Regional Agricultural Counsellor for Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger,...

How quelea birds play hide-and-seek with Borno farmers

In response to the negative effects of Boko Haram insurgency, the Borno State...

Jos: Vegetable production growing, but market filthy, unorganised

Jos is home to large production of vegetables – cabbage, carrot, lactose, cucumber,...