Nigeria’s National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) is tightening oversight of sugar import quotas by requiring companies to demonstrate genuine backward-integration commitments. The...
Nigeria has commissioned a 400-ton-per-day rice mill in Kano State, expanded from 80 tons daily since 2024, with plans to exceed 500...
Nigeria imported 460,800 tonnes of Brazilian raw sugar worth $210 million between May and July. While Brazil remains the dominant supplier, Nigeria...
Nigeria’s Bank of Agriculture and the federal government launched a financing programme to raise annual grain production from 11 million to 25...
Nigeria’s National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) has launched specialised training programmes under the National Sugar Master Plan 2.0 to build technical expertise...
Nigeria is accelerating efforts to expand domestic palm oil production to reduce an annual supply deficit of nearly 1 million metric tonnes...
India has cut rice export prices by 29% to $340 per tonne, helping secure shipments of 150,000 tonnes of rice to Nigeria...
Fresh Nigerian demand for Indian parboiled rice has emerged as Thai rice prices rise amid supply constraints. India’s 5% broken parboiled rice...
West Africa launched a $24 billion rice self-sufficiency plan targeting 34 million tonnes annually by 2035. ECOWAS, AfDB and World Bank initiatives...