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#AfricaRice #InTheNews 🌾 In #Madagascar, Africa Rice Center, in partnership with #FOFIFA and national collaborators, trained 33 seed producers on certified rice seed production! Empowering local farmers to boost rice quality and yield across the country. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d6gEkumA

Every bountiful harvest begins with a team of dedicated people who are committed to nurturing growth from planting to harvest. Through the FMN Project YALWA Initiative, we are progressively driving local content development in the areas of Maize and soybean value chain cultivation. We provide various resources to our partner smallholder farmers like trainings, improved seedlings, soil testing services, precision agricultural practices, and overall cultivation initiatives in line with global best practices and standards. The outcome is a continuous and consistent yield improvement and bountiful harvest. At Kaboji Farm, we bring this commitment to life, through one of our subsidiaries, Golden Agri Inputs Limited (GAIL), Feeding and Enriching the lives of millions of Nigerian families, Every Day. Watch the video to see how we’re driving change and creating greater yields across Nigeria. #FMN #GAIL

Every bountiful harvest begins with a team of dedicated people who are committed to nurturing growth from planting to harvest. Through the FMN Project YALWA Initiative, we are progressively driving local content development in the areas of Maize and soybean value chain cultivation. We provide various resources to our partner smallholder farmers like trainings, improved seedlings, soil testing services, precision agricultural practices, and overall cultivation initiatives in line with global best practices and standards. The outcome is a continuous and consistent yield improvement and bountiful harvest. At Kaboji Farm, we bring this commitment to life, through one of our subsidiaries, Golden Agri Inputs Limited (GAIL), Feeding and Enriching the lives of millions of Nigerian families, Every Day. Watch the video to see how we’re driving change and creating greater yields across Nigeria. #FMN #GAIL

Key Insights from the 2024 8th Korean Sesame Seeds Tender Sharing the highlights from this year’s 8th Korean tender, Here’s a quick breakdown: - Average Bid Price: $1,747.00/MT - Lowest Bid Price: $1,741.00/MT by Jupiter Agri (Pakistan) - Highest Bid Price: $1,749.00/MT by suppliers from Tanzania, India, and Nigeria - Total Accepted Quantity: 3,000 MT Origin Contributions: - Pakistan - 40% (1,200 MT) @ Avg. $1,744/MT - Tanzania - 30% (900 MT) @ Avg. $1,749/MT - India - 20% (600 MT) @ Avg. $1,749/MT - Nigeria - 10% (300 MT) @ Avg. $1,749/MT This tender highlights the challenges in the global sesame market, with falling prices putting pressure on suppliers and trade relationships. #Agriculture #Commodities #SesameSeeds #TradeInsights #GlobalMarkets

🍅 Big factories, small yields: The paradox of African agriculture At our ten-year anniversary celebration, Mira Mehta, Founder and CEO of Tomato Jos, highlighted a crucial issue in Nigeria and Africa. Despite the allure of large-scale processing plants, there's often a shortage of raw materials to keep them running efficiently. From rice mills to fertilizer blenders, the temptation to build big often overshadows the reality of limited (nearby) supply. Mehta's insight: A smaller, well-supplied factory can outperform a larger, underutilized one. How can we build the FMCG / agro-allied sector in Africa (at the early stages), managing the inherent risks? #agritech #AfricanAgriculture #sustainability transcript in comments

Situated in Nigeria's fertile Niger Delta, Bayelsa State possesses vast agricultural potential, even as it remains primarily recognized for oil and gas. With its plentiful rivers, tropical climate, and nutrient-rich soils, Bayelsa is ideal for both crop and fish farming. Cassava is Bayelsa’s primary crop, widely cultivated throughout the state and delivering significant benefits for both the local economy and Nigeria at large. As a staple food for millions, cassava forms the foundation of popular Nigerian dishes like garri, fufu, and tapioca. Bayelsa’s extensive cassava production plays a crucial role in meeting local food demands, reducing the nation’s dependence on imported staples. Bayelsa has the potential to emerge as a significant agricultural hub, complementing its oil industry and driving broader economic growth and resilience nationwide. #wednesdaywisdom #bayelsa #agriculture #cassava #farming #garri #oil #nigerdelta #economicgrowth #notoretribe #notore

A $20 Billion Lost Opportunity Nigeria’s decline in the palm oil trade can be traced to a series of missteps: failure to invest in the plantation of improved oil palm varieties, an unfair pricing system that disincentivizes farming, infrastructure shortages, and the disruptive impact of the civil war. Over-reliance on the wild and semi-wild groves and their variety undermined the long-term competitiveness of Nigeria’s oil palm sector. With its thick shell and inefficient oil yield, the dominant dura palm species couldn't compete with the high-yield, disease-resistant varieties emerging in Southeast Asia. Vestance Analyst Aisosa Osaretin wrote this excerpt from our upcoming work on the Palm Oil Industry in Nigeria. Click here to read more https://lnkd.in/g8hmsv7G

“Farming is our main activity, and during the dry season we have to find other sources of income to support our families, often with money from the sale of our crops," shares a Nuru Burkina Faso farmer. With Nuru we learned good soybean production practices. Nuru also facilitated the marketing of our crops. We really welcome this training in soybean processing, because we were wondering what we were going to do during the dry season. With what Nuru has taught us, I'm sure I'll be able to produce very good [soybean] kebabs and have a regular income.” Learn more about how farmers in Burkina Faso learned to process soybeans through the USAID-funded TIFR Project here: https://loom.ly/qK4OICw #NuruBurkinaFaso #BurkinaFaso #PlantingHope

The two plants that will save Nigeria from farmer-herder clashes are Leucaena and duckweed. 1. Farmers can use both as fertilizer 2. Herders can grow them in small spaces as fodder 3. The economy will save lives and billions of naira. Win-win-win That's why we at 200MillionTrees are working with local leaders to promote the cultivation of the plants and the adoption of products from them.