By Our Reporter ABUJA (CONVERSEER) – The Center for Agropreneurship and Green Economy is set to host the Africa Food Heroes Awards tomorrow, November 20, 2024, at 4 PM at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre in Abuja. The prestigious award ceremony will recognise and celebrate the outstanding contributions of eminent personalities in the areas of…
By Mercy Omoike LAGOS (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Systems has wrapped up its 2025 Agrithon with 36 applicants reaching the grand finale on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Lagos agrithon is an initiative of the Ministry and the Lagos Agrinnovation Club formed in…
By Felicia Imohimi ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Agbeyewa Farms Ltd. for cassava production. NALDA Executive Secretary, Mr Cornelius Adebayo, said at the signing in Abuja on Friday that the partnership aimed to accelerate land development and large-scale cassava cultivation. He…
By Vivian Ihechu ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – For many years, families like Faustin Menzan’s in Côte d’Ivoire, who farm cocoa in West Africa, have been suffering. They help produce chocolate for the whole world, but they never see enough money to live better. Their farms are old, the market price for cocoa is never stable,…
By Christian Njoku Calabar (NAN, CONVERSEER) – Dr Sani Abiodun, National Project Coordinator (NPC) of the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprise in the Niger Delta (LIFE-ND), has urged 630 new LIFE-ND incubatees not to see their selection as national cake. Abiodun, who disclosed this on Monday in Calabar during a One-Day Orientation Session of the FGN/NDDC/IFAD-assisted…
