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African sugar producers should eye regional…
African sugar producers will have to focus on growing regional markets before the European Union dismantles…
‘Investors need institutional framework that will…
Emmanuel Ijewere, coordinator, Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) and chairman, Best Foods/Fresh Farms, speaks on…
World Bank outlines agenda to help end poverty, hunger
With 800 million people going to bed hungry every night, countries combating hunger must build better food systems…
Investing in fish smoking, packaging, distribution
One of the ways to fight unemployment is identification and creation of investment and income opportunities for…
Agric ministry moves to protect poultry industry against…
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has begun the training of key stakeholders in the poultry…
Cassava peels’ commercialisation viable with growing…
With increasing use of cassava in the production of cassava chips for bread, starch, ethanol and other products…
Investing in oil palm plantation establishment
Oil palm can be used in various ways; the leaves are used in making brooms and as roofing materials (in the rural…
Water hyacinths provide organic manure, cooking gas
Due to the efficient uptake of such nutrients as nitrogen and phosphorus by water hyacinths planted in polluted…
Agrikexpo partners EU Conference as event date shifts
The 2015 edition of the annual agriculture/food exhibition (Agrikexpo) is being partnered by the Conference of the…
River basins show massive job creation potentials with…
Public-private partnership (PPP) has been identified as the key that would unlock the full agricultural potentials…
ICT tools providing mobile money for agribusinesses
ICT-based agricultural financing/mobile money services are no doubt the result of firm collaboration between…
Industry watcher x-rays FG’s fertiliser policy
The agricultural policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria, especially its effort at ending the age-long corrupt…