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WORLD FOOD DAY

World Food Day is a day dedicated to the celebration of the Food Agriculture Organization (FAO), an event organized in over 150 countries across the world, which is set apart in tackling Global hunger. It is held annually on the 16th of October where people from around the world come together to dec...
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WHY IS CASHEW ONE OF THE TOP 5 EXPORTABLE CROPS.

Nigeria is ranked 14th in the global index of cashew nut exports with about 60million dollars made yearly and produces about 20% of the world cashew production.   Exporting cash crops comes with a lot of challenges such as perishability and flaunctuating demands in the international market. Major e...
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AGRO-INVESTMENT AS A MEDIUM OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

There has been a recent call for diversification by economists and public analysts from crude oil as Nigeria’s major export and source of revenue due to the continuous fall in the international price of oil. This has been met with applauds because of the present state of the economy. The state...
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YOUNG FARMERS GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE THE FUTURE

Young Farmers given opportunity to secure the future To catch them young, the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) has launched the Farmers for the Future (F4F) grant aimed to give young people the opportunity to access funds for viable agricultural enterprises. Announcing the initiat...
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Combating post-harvest losses

A third of the global food wastage happens during post-harvest according to international reports. According to figures by the Nigerian Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), Nigeria loses about $9 billion yearly due to poor post-harvest management. More than 30 perce...
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60,000 farmers to benefit from $200m APPEALS project fund

Sixty thousand farmers, drawn from six states will benefit from the $200m World Bank assisted project, under the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support Project (APPEALS). This was disclosed at the Project Facilitation Training for facilitators, which ended yeste...
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The Effect of Democracy on Agriculture

History made us understand the two main political systems that have effect on the macroeconomic and socioeconomic variables of a country. These two systems are; democracy and dictatorship. It has been identified that democracy was adopted by countries reported to have a higher level of economic deve...
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JOIN THE ‘INVEST & SPEND’ CULTURE.

The much anticipated and celebrated new year is here, gone is the euphoria of the holiday season and everything is real again. ‘The Hustle Continues’ – (THC), a lot of people have splurged their hard-saved cash on the festive ‘jolly-fication’ and now they have to start ...
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CASHEW IS NEXT TO COCOA AS EXPORT CROP.

An overview of cashew industry in Nigeria was reviewed, emphasizing historical antecedents, status and prospects of nut production sector with a view to providing expertise information that may help prospecting investors in decision making in this non-oil sector of the Nigerian economy. Potential in...
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Nigeria Earns N284bn From Cashew Exports In Three Years.

Between 2015 and 2017, Nigeria earned $813.05m (N284.5bn) in foreign exchange from the exportation of cashew. The President, National Cashew Association of Nigeria, Mr. Tola Fasheru, gave the figure in Abuja shortly after he led a delegation of the association to meet with the Minister of State for ...
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