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The Executive Secretary of Nigeria’s National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF), Mohammed Ibrahim, says the Fund has launched the Ginger Value Chain Recovery and Sustainability Programme (GVCRSP) with the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI).
Nigeria’s Vice President, Alhaji Kashim Shettima has flagged off the nationwide distribution of 515,720 bags of fertiliser under the National Agricultural Development Fund’s (NADF) Renewed Hope Farm Input Support Programme (FISP).
The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated a Technical Working Group on Agricultural Produce Residue Standards to address recurring export rejections of Nigerian agricultural commodities arising from non-compliance with Maximum Residue Limits and other sanitary and phytosanitary requirements.
President Joseph Boakai has stressed the critical role of agriculture in transforming Liberia’s economy, creating jobs, and reducing the country’s…
Mali’s High Council for Agriculture held its 16th session on 9 June 9, 2026 in Koulouba, on the eve of the launch of the new farming season.
Nigeria’s Ministry of Youth Development, in partnership with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have launched the National Youth in Agribusiness Land Trust Fund, an initiative aimed at improving access to land for young Nigerians engaged in agribusiness.
Mali’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Ibrahima Samaké, met in Bamako with a high-level delegation from the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) Commission, led by Dr. Paul Koffi Koffi, to discuss a massive financing framework targeting three priority agricultural value chains valued at 6,000 billion CFA francs.
Botswana says it has suppressed the foot‑and‑mouth disease outbreak in its northern control zones but movement restrictions will remain in force.
In Fada N’Gourma, eastern Burkina Faso, newly developed market gardening sites established by the authorities are helping hundreds of internally…
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has intensified efforts to promote deforestation-free finance in Nigeria, chiefly on cocoa and oil palm production in the Niger Delta region.