China’s disease control authority said on Saturday that contact with frozen food packaging contaminated by living new coronavirus could cause infection. The…
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Federal Government of Nigeria in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), is set to inaugurate…
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African Risk Capacity partners Insuretech Pula to deliver Best Agric index insurance products to protect African farmers
The African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd), the commercial subsidiary of African Risk Capacity Group (ARC Group), has announced a partnership agreement…
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CBN urges banks to lift loans to agriculture to 10%, sets to establish infrastructure coy
Nigeria needs to more than double the proportion of bank loans it makes to the agricultural sector to 10% within the next…
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Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc. is set to add not less than 1, 250 new jobs to the Edo State economy with…
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The Dawn Project has commenced the planting of over 250 carefully selected indigenous trees in and around Lagos as it fights climate…
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The Federal Government is set to inject over N600 billion as stimulus response into the agriculture sector. The Minister of Agriculture and…
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Nigerian cocoa output is likely to drop by at least 20% this season as measures aimed at curbing the spread of the…
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An industrial agric company, Spring Plantation and Processing Company (SPPC), has unveils its industrial agric initiative that will make possible people-participation and…
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ECOWAS faces imminent hunger as COVID-19 restrictions threaten farming
The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has warned that the region is facing an imminent hunger threat…
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Ecobank Nigeria has assured farmers who are beneficiaries of the Anchor Borrowers programmes for the 2020 wet season and members of the…
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The Government of Madagascar has received $2.13 million from the African Risk Capacity Insurance Company Limited (ARC Ltd) to cover anticipated losses…
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CBN unveils plans for non-interest facility in ABP, targets N432bn for 2020 wet season
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled plans to release a framework for the integration of non-interest window in all its…
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The Cross River Government and Israeli Bean & Co. Global Ltd. has signed a full Venture/Public Private Partnership agreement of 15 million…
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Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Zenith Bank Plc Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu told Bloomberg Media that the bank is prioritising lending to the agricultural…