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.
Niger Foods has signed a lease agreement to develop a 30,000-hectare farm estate in Ishau District, Nigeria.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Minister of Water Resources has appealed to state governments and communities to provide land for a Presidential directive to cultivate 500,000 ha of irrigable agriculture across Nigeria's twelve River Basins.
A six-month investigation by Gideon Sarpong, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Audrey Travère has uncovered the extent to which the relentless exploitation of rubber and palm oil resources by Socfin is fueling deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations in Nigeria and Ghana.
Charles Eghobamien, CEO of Sunora Foods, says his company will commit about US$100 million to develop a 15,000 hectare oil palm plantation as well as, crop processing and water bottling facilities in Edo State, Nigeria
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