Tag: Nigeria
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AFEX UNVEILS 2022 WET SEASON CROP PRODUCTION REPORT
Nigeria’s leading commodities market player, AFEX, has unveiled its 2022 Wet Season Crop Production Report in a hybrid event hosted at the AFEX head office in Abuja on November 16th 2022. The report, which seeks to provide accurate and reliable data to aid the understanding of the national food system through farmer surveys and measurement ... -
Nigerian foodtech start-up ColdHubs and Global Mangrove Alliance win the world’s biggest environmental award
The Curt Bergfors Foundation is humbled to award the 2022 Food Planet Prize to anti-food loss champion ColdHubs and mangrove advocate Global Mangrove Alliance. Each winner receives $2 million, the world’s biggest award in the environmental and food sectors. The Foundation admires both winners for putting the livelihoods of those who produce food first in ... -
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Nigeria’s most important crops
According to Taiwo Oyaniran, an associate director at PwC Nigeria, agriculture is a key sector in Nigeria, contributing around 22% to the country’s annual GDP and employing about 36% of the workforce. Despite the size and importance of the sector, more than 80% of farmers in Nigeria are smallholders, and they grow around 90% of ...




