The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has announced that the federal government has developed a mechanism that will provide N30 billion financial support to agriculture. Okonjo-Iweala made the announcement at the signing ceremony of a Tripartite Memorandum of Understanding...

Cassava, one of the most staple foods in Nigeria, has low nutritional content, but this can be improved using biotechnology, a modern approach in improving agricultural yield. Chinyere Amalu, in this piece, examines the issue. In many countries, economic growth and sustainability depend on...

The House committee on Agriculture last week paid an oversight visit to Agricultural Colleges and Research Institutions in Ibadan. Tunde Ogunesan was there. His report. NIGERIA has continued to find its feet in sustaining its economical and structural realm since it discovered oil some...

Here are some interesting facts about agriculture. Did you know that: World’s top five agribusinesses have a combined turnover of $285 billion, equal to the GDP of Colombia? Women grow 80% – 90% of the food in sub-Saharan Africa but own less than 2% of all land? One in seven...

(Updates with Socodevi’s work in fourth paragraph, prices in last.) Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) — Nigerian farmers are joining cooperatives that promise better prices from the global cocoa market by helping them improve crop quality, the country’s industry association said. “In the next...