Agric

Kebbi Govt. secures N1.5bn World Bank loan to boost fish, livestock farming

The Kebbi Government has secured N1.5 billion loan to provide financial support to fishermen and livestock farmers to consolidate the…

World Bank to introduce Fadama III livestock project in Bauchi

The World Bank under its Fadama III Additional Financing Project will soon introduce Livestock Production and Resilience Support Project in…

AfDB injects $40m into agriculture development in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mali, others

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has injected an aggregate of $40 million seed fund into agriculture development projects in Nigeria,…

Renewed trade concerns push soybean prices to record decline

Renewed trade concerns stemming from US-China discord on Tuesday pushed soybean futures for July delivery by more than seven percent…

Copper, industrial metals slide on trade row

Copper futures fell more than one percent on Tuesday as an escalating trade row between the U.S. and China rippled…

LCCI wades in to help SME farmers access finance for agric development

The federal government has unusually widened its scope of financial interventions to Small and Medium Enterprises in the agricultural sector.…