Nigeria

Nigeria's Kaduna State Government declared its readiness to utilise over 800,000 hectares of virgin land located for agricultural purposes at the 7th Kaduna Investment Summit.

On September 2nd, security forces looted and burned down houses in the Nigerian village of Agbede – a further chapter in the conflict between local people and the Okomu Oil Palm plantation company, reports Rainforest Rescue

Olam says 4,000 ha of its large rice farm in Nigeria were submerged and that damages could be worth as much as $15 million.

Cette acquisition, une fois actée, portera à 2000 hectares la superficie totale du domaine de la compagnie consacrée à la culture de palmier à huile.

The partnership is expected to remove bureaucratic obstacles that hinder easy access to lands for agricultural and industrial investments.

L’attention médiatique et politique autour du cas a obligé l’entreprise à réagir : SIAT s’est notamment engagée à organiser des rencontres avec les communautés dans les différents pays pour écouter leurs revendications.}

The Nigerian firm says it is embarking on Phase II of its sugar project, which will cover over 100,000 hectares to make the sugar plant, the largest in Africa.

The project, which is a joint venture between Northsworthy Farms, and Allied Industries Limited and Nigeria's Delta State Government had planted over 250,000 oil palm trees in over 1,400 hectares of land.

Communities protest grabbing, bulldozing and replacing of their biodiversity with monocrop oil palms by Fayus Nigeria Ltd and several other of the Edo State governor's business friends and multinational companies.

Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Nigeria's Yobe State has said a group of Chinese investors will establish 10,000 hectares of rice plantation under a trial agricultural project in the state.

“This is uncommon. The Governor allocated the land to us without asking for any bribe or commission,” the CEO of Tiamin told China's Ambassador about the 10,000 ha allocated to his company by Bauchi state government.

L’exploitation sera consacrée à la culture d’une nouvelle variété de riz chinois, qui permettra de quintupler le rendement comparativement aux semences conventionnelles, selon Yung Wang, le chef de file du groupe