Nigeria

Nigeria: Osun partners Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina on agric
- This Day
- 25 November 2014
Osun State Government signed agriculture partnerships over the weekend with investors from Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
PZ-Wilmar JV calls for integration policy In palm oil sector
- Business Day
- 04 November 2014
PZ-Wilmar, a joint venture between two international companies, says it will expand its palm oil production to 240,000 ha of plantations if the government implements a backward integration programme.
Vandebeeck: Why Nigeria is preferred investment destination in Africa
- This Day
- 04 November 2014
"Between now and the next seven, eight years, our Group in Nigeria will have over 100,000 hectares of plantations," says the Chairman of Presco Plc, a company controlled by SIAT of Belgium.
Lagos to acquire more farmland in Osun, Oyo
- New Telegraph
- 15 October 2014
Lagos State government says states acquiring land for food production in other places has become "global practice everywhere".
Niger is number one rice investment destination in Nigeria —Commissioner
- NIgeria Tribune
- 07 October 2014
Niger State Commissioner for Agriculture says Aliko Dangote is coming to Niger State in grand style with a request for 50,000 ha of land in the flood plain bank of River Niger for rice and sugarcane production.
Nigeria: Basin authority to cultivate 10,000 hectares of rice, sugar cane in Kwara, Kogi
- NAN
- 06 October 2014
The Dangote Group had indicated interest in investing in irrigation around Kampe dam, adding that the land was suitable for sugar cane cultivation
Richest African Dangote says Dubai deals may be billions
- Bloomberg
- 01 October 2014
Investment Corp. of Dubai in tie-up with Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote that "could run into billions of dollars" and involves ventures in agriculture.
Nigeria: Group announces $2.2m rice farming investment
- This Day
- 17 September 2014
WEMS Agro Companies Limited plans to invest about $2.2 million into rice cultivation ‎in a 25,000 ha rice project in Ondo state with Chinese partners.
Interview with Martin Richenhagen, Chairman, President and CEO of AGCO Corporation
- African Agribusiness
- 15 September 2014
AGCO CEO says his company is planning to have a second “future farm” in Nigeria because it’s also a very big market. AGCO's first "future farm' is in Zambia.
Edo, 16 investors sign MoU to develop agribusiness
- Business Day
- 04 September 2014
500,000 hectares of new farmlands has so far been identified across the Nigerian state to be allocated to the investors to develop the sector.
Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote invests $1 Billion in rice production in Nigeria
- Forbes
- 02 August 2014
Dangote Group has acquired 150,000 hectares of farmland in five Nigerian states -Edo, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kwara and Niger- which will be used for the commercial production of rice paddy.
Olam lance la « plus grande ferme d’Afrique » au Nigeria
- Agence Ecofin
- 22 July 2014
Le singapourien Olam a récemment lancé dans l’état de Nasarawa au Nigeria, une ferme d’une superficie de 6 000 hectares dédiée à la riziculture.