The investment, approved on 13 December 2018, will support the expansion of the company’s vertically integrated food and agriculture operations to transform the Sudanese agriculture and food industry. “By partnering with DAL Group, the Bank will leverage on Sudan’s high agricultural potential as well as
With the realities that there are structural bottlenecks in Nigeria causing inadequate growth of the economy; high imports of all categories of goods; low exports of non-oil goods and increased unemployment and high level of poverty, stakeholders in the cocoa sector have proactively moved to
It is galling that a continent with 60 per cent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, that spends US$35 billion every year importing food, is still home to the world’s hungriest, most malnourished population. And although irrigation in Africa has the potential to boost productivity
It has come to the notice of the National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, of the report of foot and mouth disease outbreak in Yobe State and cattle population published in the Daily Trust online newspaper dated 15th November 2018 as per attached document. We wish
Surprisingly, December is a month in which the naira usually strengthens due to remittances of visiting friends and relatives. The difference this time is that political uncertainty is taking its toll compounded by the sharp drop (30%) in Brent oil from October. The slides below
The government has announced its intention to discuss the possibility of replacing the free fertilizer distribution programme with a subsidy programme. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced this on Monday when the National Farmers and Fishermen Award Winners Association called on him at the Jubilee
The government is now looking for external markets to export maize as production soars. Speaking when opening a two-day workshop of agricultural stakeholders on the position of the sector in industrialization, minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Mr. Japhet Hasunga said his ministry has dispatched officials
Quan Le, CEO Binkabi in an interview with Proshare WebTV, explained how Blockchain will help transform Agriculture in Nigeria and Africa. According to him, the name of the initiative is “Uber for Grain”, which is designed to make domestic grain trading easier. He said “Uber
Nigeria is currently the second largest producer of tubers in the world with output level of 109.58mn tonnes after China (176.63mn tonnes). One of such tubers produced is yam of which Nigeria produces 44mn tonnes and accounts for 66.7% of global output. Nigeria’s comparative advantage
The 2018 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report has just been published, and the news isn’t good. The Living Planet Index shows an average decline of 60% in population sizes of vertebrate species between 1970 and 2014. The dominant cause, along with overexploitation of our