President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said that the Agricultural sector was one of the critical non-oil sectors which made significant contributions to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

In a bid to address challenges faced by tomatoes farmers, a global leading company in the production and exportation of phosphate-based fertilizers, OCP Africa, has deepened its partnership with Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, SFSA, to enhance Tomato production techniques and create a viable and sustainable business model and linkages around the value chain.

Nigeria has the economic potential to generate 427.3 million dollars (N188bn) from domestic value-addition to cassava, and earn additional 2.98 billion dollars (N1.2trn) in export of the commodity annually. The Executive Director of Partnership Initiative for Niger Delta (PIND), Dara Akala, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Akala, who spoke during […]

Mr Ernest Aubee, Head of Agriculture, ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, has called on stakeholders to initiate partnership strategies to support ecological organic agriculture institutions and expertise in Africa

Nigeria produces about two million metric tonnes of Onions annually, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Muhammad Abubakar, has told the 4th Regional Onion annual conference and general meeting holding in Kano. The event was organised by Regional observatory on Onions for West and Central Africa, in collaboration with National Onion Producers, Processors […]