The Federal Government on Thursday declared that the era of criminalizing illegal miners is over as it holds consultative meetings on the formalization of artisanal miners into cooperatives, and small-scale miners into larger mineral and financial enterprises. The declaration was made by the Minister of
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said at least $2.5bn domestic tomatoes demand gap still exist and called on investors to ramp up investments in the commodity. The CBN also said it is willing to provide support to willing investors in the tomatoes value
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Okomu Oil Palm Plc, producers of Banga Palm Oil and NOKO10 rubber brands, Dr Graham Hefer, talks about the gains of the recent border closure on the palm oil sector and other sundry issues in this interview with ANNA OKON
About 897,431 cashew seedlings have been distributed to 15,555 farmers in 550 communities across the 11 municipal and district assemblies in the Upper West Region. The farmers included 2,792 women. It formed part of the government’s Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) programme. According
Solidaridad, an International Non-Governmental Organisatin (INGO), has declared that it will assist Nigeria to recover lost grounds in palm oil production by repositioning the country to become a major player in the global oil palm market. According to the Solidaridad’s Programme Manager for Oil Palm
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says its interventions in agricultural and manufacturing sectors have saved the economy about N1.3 trillion annually in import bills. The Deputy Governor in charge of the Corporate Services Department of the CBN, Edward Adamu, said the bank’s intervention is targeted at
Gold has always been seen as a good investment be it physical or a commodity future for that matter. The commodity has mostly given great gains to the investors and we are seeing some major uptrend in the gold. Gold has indeed outperformed not only
The Commodity market has been seeing huge losses in the trading of futures that have governed the sector’s good growth, but the decline in the trend has caused a huge mess in the commodity market of the world. The protests around the world have been
‘With the good projected rains this year, do you think I should grow maize?’ This is among questions a lot of farmers that have read both my book and my articles have been asking me. I understand their viewpoint that when the rain season is
New research conducted on the Criollo and Trinitario varieties of noble cocoa revealed that different conditions during fermentation can affect the flavour of the finished fermented beans. The majority of the world’s cocoa production comes from the Forastero varietal, with more research carried out on