Nigeria’s potential at global cowpea market
…India offers $1bn for Nigeria’s beans Cowpea, known as beans in Nigeria, is an important economic crop whose seeds are consumed as
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‘Why farmers cannot access bank loans’
Alhaji Sani Bala Tanko retired in 2012 as Group Head in charge of public sector in First Bank of Nigeria and went straight into farming. In this inter
4,000 Anambra farmers to get free agro inputs
No fewer than 4,000 farmers are to benefit from free and subsidized agricultural inputs in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The ag
Nigeria losses N28.4bn worth of tomatoes annually
Nigeria is losing N28.4bn worth of tomatoes being produced in the country annually, the Project Director of YieldWise Nigeria, Lekan Tobe ha
Experts partner Kano farmers to boost cowpea production
Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project, led by ICRISAT, a major international initiative supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)