The Oil Palm Growers Association of Nigeria (OPGAN) says Nigeria needs about $500 million worth of palm oil annually to meet its local demand.     The OPGAN’s National Presi [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

A recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says cocoa beans, sesamum seeds and superior quality raw cocoa beans were the most exported Nigerian agricultural product [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

A top Nigerian industrialist, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, among others, has called for extractive industries to prioritize the protection of groundwater in a bid to preserve the environm [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

Russia said last week that it wants the European countries that buy its natural gas to make their payments in rubles, rather than dollars or euros. A month ago, that might have se [...]

Country: Ghana

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[The Conversation Africa] Each agricultural season, small-scale maize farmers in southeastern Uganda face the same dilemma. Should they shell out a few extra shillings and buy comm [...]

Country: Uganda

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Premium Times] More than 27 million people were already suffering from hunger in the region and that number could rise by another 11 million by June, the groups said in a joint st [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[DW] Climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have left millions in urgent need of food. A new report has warned 40 million may go hungry in West Africa if noth [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Leadership] President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, in Abuja attributed Nigeria's rising prominence as Africa's fertiliser powerhouse to the implementation of the right policies b [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Nyasa Times] Consumers in the country continue to dig deeper in their pockets to buy cooking oil as the prices of the commodity remains high despite removal of VAT on April 1, 202 [...]

Country: Malawi

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[UN News] The world's plant protection body met on Tuesday, aiming to set new plant health standards to both safeguard human wellbeing and preserve food security, according to the [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[VOA] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says one quarter of Africa's 346 million people faces a "food security crisis." [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Premium Times] The president attributes Nigeria's prominence to the implementation of the "right policies" by his administration.. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[VOA] Nairobi -- U.S. government officials warn that many African countries will continue to face shortages and high food prices as long as Russia continues to wage war against Ukr [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[African Arguments] Critics say state-backed farming cooperatives have become a tool for recruiting people into the ruling party and are sowing division. [...]

Country: Burundi

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[This Day] President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday disclosed that Nigeria was fast attaining the enviable status of being the leading fertiliser producer in Africa. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[The Herald] So far 2 000 joint farming ventures covering up to 200 000 hectares have been approved by Government to boost agriculture. [...]

Country: Zimbabwe

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Unicef] The sharp increase of the number of malnourished children in the recent years requires to act urgently not only to save lives, but also to prevent children from becoming m [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[New Dawn] The looming global food crisis appears to have already hit Liberia in the wake of growing scarcity of the nation's staple rice, on the local market despite the governmen [...]

Country: Liberia

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[This Day] International aid agencies yesterday raised the alarm that the West African sub-region was currently facing its worst food crisis in a decade, with 27 million people cur [...]

Region: N/A

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[DW] Africa's rapidly developing cannabis industry could soon supply the entire world. Uganda is already cultivating medical cannabis for the German pharmaceutical market. [...]

Region: Africa

Date: 06-Apr-2022

[Daily Trust] Towards enhancing agriculture and the creation of jobs, Dangote Fertiliser Limited is set to train over one million farmers in the next three years. [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 05-Apr-2022

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has disbursed N948 billion to 4, 478, 381 smallholder farmers under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) across the country.     T [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Yusuf Maina Bukar as the Director-General of National Agency for the Great Green Wall, an agency under th [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says it is deeply concerned about the food security situation in Ukraine and has warned of potential far-reaching [...]

Country: Nigeria

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022

[New Frame] As the curtain fell on the Afcon, many of Cameroon's citizens went back to what was already an everyday struggle to survive. In the end the showpiece achieved - and mea [...]

Country: Cameroon

Region: Africa

Date: 04-Apr-2022