Niger foods to establish 30,000-hectare farm Estate in Ishau District
- Vanguard
- 24 February 2024
Niger Foods has signed a lease agreement to develop a 30,000-hectare farm estate in Ishau District, Nigeria.
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Nigeria: US Embassy team visits Agbeyewa farm in Ekiti
- Tribune
- 21 February 2024
US Ambassador to Nigeria, David Greene, calls on the people to support the expansive 15,000 ha Agbeyewa farm owned by Cavista Hooldings in the interest of the community.
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Nigeria : le groupe Sujimoto veut installer une ferme rizicole de 30 000 hectares dans l’État d’Enugu
- Agence Ecofin
- 20 February 2024
Pour le groupe Sujimoto, la décision d’installer une ferme rizicole à Enugu entre dans le cadre d’un plan visant à installer un total de 1 million d’hectares de rizières, à travers d’autres États du Nigeria dont le Niger, Oyo, Ebonyi, Adamawa.
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Sujimoto group, Enugu govt join forces in ambitious agricultural venture
- Tribune
- 17 February 2024
Nigerian luxury real estate developer is pursuing a rice farm estate spanning 30,000 hectares in Nigeria's Enugu State that will also include housing, farm hospitals, hotels and markets.
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Nigeria: Niger Foods signs 10,000 ha land lease agreement for farm estate with 12 communities under the Bida Emirate
- Society Now
- 10 February 2024
The communities will lease a minimum of 10,000 hectares of land for 50 years to establish commercial farms and farm estates for mechanised production of rice, sesame, soya and maize
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Nigeria secures new investors to boost sugar production by 20,000 hectares
- BNN
- 08 February 2024
The National Sugar Development Council in Nigeria has secured new investors to expand the sugar industry by 20,000 hectares as part of the council's implementation of the Nigerian Sugar Masterplan.
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Former Nigeria’s senate president to invest in controversial Cross River oil palm plantation
- Cross River Watch
- 01 February 2024
The former Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki has made his intention known to invest in the controversial oil palm plantation in Eku Community of Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State.
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Red gold project: Battle for soul of depleting Nigerian forest reserve (Parts I & II)
- TheCable
- 12 January 2024
After the Ondo State government allocated SAO Agro thousands of hectares in the Oluwa Forest Reserve for an oil palm plantation, it moved into the forest with full force and left trails of blood and devastation.
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Niger, Blue Carbon sign pact on tree planting
- Guardian
- 08 December 2023
Governor Mohammed Bago of Nigeria's Niger State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Blue Carbon for a carbon capture project to plant one billion new trees on 760,000 hectares in the state.
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Nigeria: Edo community laments alleged neglect by multinational company, others
- Nigerian Tribune
- 05 December 2023
The people of Okomu community in Edo State have decried the alleged neglect and marginalisation of the area by Okomu Palm Oil, a multinational company and the management of National Park.
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Investigación expone rol del gigante agrícola Socfin en deforestación y desplazamiento de comunidades nativas de Nigeria y Ghana Impacto de las plantaciones de palma aceitera y caucho del Grupo
- Global Voices
- 01 December 2023
Una investigación de seis meses de Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi y Audrey Travère ha sacado a la luz las graves repercusiones que la explotación de los recursos de caucho y aceite de palma del Grupo Socfin han causado en la deforestación y el desplazamiento forzado de poblaciones indígenas en Nigeria y Ghana.
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Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Mongabay
- 01 December 2023
SAO Agro-Allied Service Limited was granted 100,000 hectares by the Ondo state government to cultivate oil palm, but some portions of the company’s concession are said to overlap with thousands of smallholder farms.
