Nigeria

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FOEN) has raised the alarm that the incessant land grabbing by multinationals companies would lead to scarcity of agricultural farm products in Edo State.

“The goal for the palm oil industry is to have not less than 200,000 hectares of organised oil palm plantation by the end of my administration," Edo State Governor Mr. Godwin Obaseki said.

The once multibillion-shilling Dominion Farms in Siaya is being auctioned to pay a supplier Sh27.6 million.

“This year we intend to plant on 4,000 hectares. If we can do 100, 000 hectares in Edo State, we will do it,” says Felix Nwabuk, Managing Director fo Prescoe PLC, a subsidiary of the SIAT Group.

‪Le fonds pour l’agriculture UFF-NAIC, détenu conjointement par la Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority et UFF Agri Investment de Old Mutual, a acquis une ferme entièrement intégrée de maïs et de soja à Panda dans l'État de Nasarawa au Nigeria.

Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, majority-owned by the Luxembourg-based Socfin group, has commissioned an 11,400 hectare oil palm plantation covering over 10 communities in Nigeria's Edo State.

Olam's Vice President says its rice farm in Nigeria, with 3,000 hectares of land currently under cultivation, will be expanded to 10,000 hectares, making it the largest rice farm in Africa.

The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority buys a 3,500 ha farm in Nasarawa State through a joint venture with UFF Agri Investment, a South African company owned by Old Mutual Property

Dans l’Etat d’Edo au Nigéria, des ONG et des membres de communautés rurales estiment à 60.000 le nombre de personnes déplacées par Okomu Oil jusqu’à présent.

Former Governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, says Chinese farmer is worth $7.9billion and supplies chicken, vegetables and fruits to fast food, restaurants and eateries in China, which he is looking to replicate in eastern Nigeria.

Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources in the State, Prince Oyewumi Oyewole, who made this declaration in Ibadan, noted that the state's zero tolerance policy on fallow agricultural farm land was meant to attract foreign investors to the state.

The Edo State governor says one of the companies that has signed up to invest in the state is Tolaram, a huge conglomerate from Singapore that plans to invest $50 million in oil palm and cassava cultivation.