Federal Government

FG floats agricultural commodity trade centre

The Federal Government has taken some steps towards digitalising the country’s agricultural commodity market, which stakeholders believe had been at infancy stage for decades, by the establishing the agricultural market information centre. This new initiative was unveiled in Abuja recently by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development during a capacity building training workshop for […]

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AfDB mission on transforming agric-business in review

The new Development Effectiveness Review on Agriculture business, showed that the African Development Bank (AfDB) has deployed $5.5 billion in investments in the agriculture sector over five years to 2015,  According to the review, the bank trained three million people on better farming practices, put 20,000 food marketing and storage into use, constructed four thousand […]

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nigerian banks

Commercial banks not friendly to agribusiness – Group says

Deposit Money Banks do not lend to farmers at affordable rates because they are not in tune with agricultural demand across the country, the Nigerian Agribusiness Group has said. According to the NAGB, commercial banks in Nigeria have a different approach when it comes to lending money for agriculture and should not be forced to […]

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