Agri-tech

Early rains in Nigeria’s rice-growing regions have boosted prospects for a good harvest, according to the farmers association, increasing the likelihood of lower imports by one of the world’s top buyers of the grain. “We have experienced early rains in the central states and in the northeast,” Aminu Goronyo, president of the Rice Farmers Association […]

U.S. farmers are gearing up to plant what could be their third-largest soybean crop ever despite failing to sell a mountain of beans from their last harvest due to a U.S.-China trade war that remains unresolved. Soybeans were the single most valuable U.S. agricultural export crop and until the trade war, China bought $12 billion-worth […]

By Adesola Afolabi and Afolabi Oluwaseun   Shehu Sanni, president, Miners Association of Nigeria has advised domestic investors interested in the Nigerian mining sector, to invest in domesticated mineral processing while also calling for the sensitization of investment towards mineral processing. At a one-day sensitization forum hosted by NACCIMA, themed, “Potential of the Nigerian Mining […]

Ivory Coast is moving away from a cocoa-auction system in favor of direct sales to traders, bringing the marketing process in the world’s top producer closer to that of neighboring Ghana, people familiar with the matter said. The West African country is selling beans directly to some of the world’s top traders instead of favoring […]