Year: 2020
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Fish Farming
WHY KEBBI FISHERMEN LEAVE, RETURN FOR FESTIVAL
Out of the 30,000 fishermen who participated in the recent Argungu Fishing Festival in Kebbi State, 12,000 are from Argungu…
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Agribusiness
BRIEF: CHINESE TECH GIANT PUMPS $85M INTO FARM PRODUCE PLATFORM
Wangjiahuan, a Chinese B2B portal for agricultural produce, has raised 600 million RMB ($85 million) in a funding round led…
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Agro Foreign News
SENSOTERRA JOINS NETWORK PROVIDER TO TAKE ITS SOIL MOISTURE PROBES TO THE WORLD’S MOST PARCHED FARMS
Australia is the driest country on Earth. More than two thirds of its landmass receives less than 500 mililitres of rain each…
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Agro Mechanisation
NIGERIA NEEDS EXTRA 63,000 TRACTORS
Food security efforts of the country are suffering roadblocks as mechanisation of farm operations with tractors and other equipment urgently…
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Agro Local News
SENATE WANTS 2020 BUDGET REVIEWED AS OIL PRICES CRASH AMIDST CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
The Senate, on Tuesday, said the review of the 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly has become inevitable as…
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Food Security
KADUNA, AGRA REVIEW AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT POLICY TO BOOST FOOD SECURITY
Kaduna State Government says it is reviewing its Agriculture Development Policy to scale up stakeholders’ participation in production, processing and…
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Agro Financing
AGRO-ECONOMIC, CBN POLICIES DRIVING NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
Some agro-industrial stakeholders have attributed the resilience of Nigeria’s economy, which is recently rated as the largest in Africa, to…
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Agribusiness
FG, EDO DISBURSE N202M GRANTS TO 2,250 AGRIC START-UPS
Edo State government, on Thursday, commenced the disbursement of over N202 million to 2,250 start-ups spread across five local government…
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Fish Farming
BORNO SETS UP COMMITTEE TO REVIVE FISHING AT LAKE CHAD BASIN
The Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum, has constituted a committee on the processing and sale of fish in the Lake…
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Agro Exports
OIL PRICE CRASH: NIGERIA NEEDS AGRICULTURE TO SUSTAIN ECONOMY SAYS AFAN
The National President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) Kabir Ibrahim, has said that Nigeria would be the worst…
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