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On Thursday, 11th of January 2018, the National Cashew Association of Nigeria (NCAN) revealed that Nigeria has become the fourth largest producer of cashew in the world. This was made known when NCAN President, Tola Fasheru visited the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Aisha...

By Victor Ahiuma-Young As part of its goal to see a generational shift in agriculture on the continent, the African Development Bank has taken its ‘Farming is Cool’ initiative to school children in Nigeria. The Bank has also launched a Junior Art Contest in Nigeria to promote the potential of...

HOPE MOSES-ASHIKE The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday bolstered activities in the agricultural, airlines, petroleum products and raw materials and machinery sectors with a total of $262.5 million in the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market. The intervention was the CBN’s first Retail...

Nigeria’s Commercial Banks have begun to disburse a 26 billion Naira special intervention fund for agricultural Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This was made known at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Bankers Committee’s yearly retreat in Lagos last week. The scheme, called the “Agriculture...

THE Nigerian Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has on Thursday said it has placed a ban on the importation of beans in the country. The Acting Director General of the Agency, Mrs. Yetunde Oni, said the ban is not for the ones produced in the country, but ‎on the ones that are...

Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, made a strong warning yesterday that Nigerians are at the risk of starving to death by 2050 if nothing was done to ensure all-year-round farming, DailySun reports. He made this disclosures when he defended the 2016 budget proposal of his ministry...

Ogun State government, through the office of the Commissioner for Agriculture, Ronke Sokefun has raised an alarm over the poisonous cattle hide and skin otherwise known as ‘Ponmo’ in some markets in the state. Sokefun warned the people against its consumption because some persons are taking...