Nigeria

Olam to invests $100m in commercial rice production
- Guardian (Nigeria)
- 16 July 2014
Olam reveals plans to expand its rice farm in Nigeria to 10,000 hectares.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan commissions Olam’s integrated rice mill
- Olam
- 14 July 2014
The integrated rice milling facility is situated at the heart of Olam’s 6,000-hectare greenfield irrigated and mechanised paddy farm in Nigeria’s Nasarawa State.
S'Africans to invest $200m in Edo, Enugu, Benue States
- This Day
- 02 July 2014
A group of South African investors have indicated interest to plough $200 million in the agriculture sector and acquire an initial 5,000 ha in Nigeria's Edo, Enugu and Benue states.
Sokoto to allocate 33,000 ha of farmland to Dangote – commissioner
- Blueprint
- 26 June 2014
Nigeria's Sokoto state government has approved the allocation of 33,000 hectares of farmland to Dangote Group of companies for the plantation of sugarcane.
Amaechi, Mexican farmer in shady banana plantation deal…MOSOP screams ‘fraud’
- Naija Standard
- 18 June 2014
The Movement for The Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) says Rivers State Government fraudulently acquired over 2,000 ha of Ogoni farmlands and handed them to a Mexican farmer for a banana plantation.
Landgrab by foreigners forces Kebbi farmers to move to Niger State
- Daily Trust
- 22 May 2014
Over 5,000 farmers from Kebbi State have been displaced as the state government took over their farmlands and allocated them to a Chinese firm for mass agricultural production.
Nigeria: Dangote Group pays N1.2 billion as land compensation in Taraba
- Daily Independent
- 19 May 2014
The Taraba Government on Monday said that Dangote Group had paid N1.2 billion to it as compensation for land acquired in Lau Local Government Area of the state.
How land ownership tussle, compensation hamper Taraba mega rice project
- This Day
- 15 May 2014
The Nigerian government and Taraba State signed an MOU for 30,000 hectares with Calvin Burgess, a US investor and owner of Dominion Farms Ltd, for large scale rice production in Taraba State.
Dangote Group pledges to invest $2.3bn in Northern Nigeria
- This Day
- 11 May 2014
He said the conglomerate would require about 250,000 hectares of land for sugar cane production and 130,000 hectares for rice farming.
Pour attirer l’investissement privé, l’état nigérian de Cross River met en vente 5 fermes publiques
- Agence Ecofin
- 07 May 2014
L’état de Cross River, qui est le second bassin cacaoyer du Nigéria, met en vente 5 fermes publiques s’étendant sur 12 129 hectares.
Nigeria – RSPO legal opinion ignores core of the complaint against Wilmar International subsidiary Biase Plantation Limited
- WRM
- 07 May 2014
Wilmar International, one of the world’s largest oil palm companies, through its subsidiary, Biase Plantations Ltd acquired 5,561 hectares of land from the Cross River State government in 2011.
Nigeria’s Cross River State plans to sell 5 cocoa farms
- Bloomberg
- 05 May 2014
The farms cover 12,129 hectares and produced about 50,000 metric tons annually.