Agric Business

States can stop relying on monthly allocations from the Federation Account if they invest more in agriculture, particularly crops in which they have comparative advantage, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, said on Thursday. Emefiele who spoke in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State at the unveiling of…

African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK) has announced the commencement of the construction of the Africa Quality Assurance Centre (AQAC) in Ogun State. The Centre would be a state-of-the-art facility with the capacity to offer testing, certification, inspection, and training services covering agricultural products. The first in a series of Quality Assurance…

Interventions in the agricultural sector under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) are not all about rice production, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has said. Emefiele said such interventions were expanded to cover over 21 other crops across the country, including maize, wheat, soybeans, cassava, sorghum and cassava. He…