Agriculture

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From an app to diagnose disease on Zambian farms to Tinder-style matchmaking for Senegalese land owners and young…

The Feed the Future, a U.S. government global hunger and food security initiative, has earmarked 12.5 million dollars for food security in…

Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has appealed to commercial banks to reduce their lending rates to farmers to…

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that the deepening of partnership with the World Bank in agricultural development would usher…

No fewer than 33,974 rice farmers in Zamfara state are to benefit from the Anchor Borrowers loan of the Central Bank of…

African Development Bank AfDB said it has initiated a $40 million project to develop agriculture in Nigeria and 26 other African countries.…

Two years after he performed the ground-breaking for the 274-kilometre superhighway of Cross River state, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned the…

A Nigerian company, Dalisatech Limited, has produced a machine that  automates garri production, from cassava  peeling to frying into the end product, a…

Renaissance Capital, a leading emerging and frontier markets investment bank, has initiated coverage on the shares of Nigeria’s staple food producers: Flour…

The Nigerian Government says it will shut the land border between it and a neigbouring country in a few days time to…

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has estimated that remittances sent to developing countries could cross 6.5 trillion dollars between 2015 and…

Local palm oil producer, Okomu Oil Palm Company in Udo in Ovia South West local government area of Edo state, has declared…

Banks in Ivory Coast are struggling to secure repayment on up to 200 billion CFA francs ($348 million) in outstanding loans made…