According to the state government, Sokoto has signed a memorandum of understanding with Henan Province of China for the establishment of a demonstration farm and boosting of agriculture in the state.
Capt. Hosa Okunbo and his technical and financial partners from the San Carlos Group in Mexico say that the farm has already taken off with an initial $11 million investment on a 20-hectare green house vegetables farm.
Heilongjiang Hegang Sanjiang Plain Rice Group is embarking on a pilot production on 500 hectares of farmland, thereafter expanding to 10,000 hectares.
Brazilian businessman Gerson Zilio of Bigtee Commercial Investment Ltd and Tec Agro Brasil said the choice of Ogun State was based on the fertile land, which contains the lime needed for cultivation of sugar cane to produce sugar and ethanol.
La Convergence Globale des Luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau – Afrique de l’Ouest vous invite à rejoindre et soutenir la Caravane ouest-africaine pour la terre, l’eau et les semences, qui mobilisera 15 pays de la sous-région en mars 2016
The Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles – West Africa invites you to join the West African Caravan for Land, Water and Seeds, which will mobilize 15 countries of the sub-region in March 2016
A Chinese firm in southwest Nigeria's Ogun State has set up an integrated poultry farm in order to focus on enhancing the nation's food security through commercial agricultural production.
The issue of indiscriminate allocation of community land to companies in the Niger Delta region has been brought to the front burner by stakeholders on environmental and human rights issues in the area.
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has disclosed that private sector investments in the country’s agric sector has reached about N760 billion in the last two years.
A broad alliance from World Bank to G8, from governments to multi-national corporations promotes large scale agriculture to improve food security, to create jobs and to bring development to rural communities.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is helping to build staple crop processing zones Nigeria, which 'can become a model for leveraging technical assistance and investments with development banks'.
Under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, Nigeria designed the idea of Staple Crop Processing Zones. Is this a model for the future or just another myth?
