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The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) has commenced the distribution of agricultural inputs to 1,729 rice and maize farmers in Gombe State, under the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) for the...
Type of seed to buyPlanting time Soybean farmers, especially in Benue State are still contending with low yield following challenges militating against the production of the ‘miracle’ crop in the state. Some of the farmers, who spoke to our correspondent in Makurdi,...
The total amount released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under the Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme (CACS) from inception to the participating banks for disbursement stood at N596.44 billion for 576 projects as at the end of the fourth quarter of 2018. Of...
The Agriculture sector expanded by 2.5% y/y in real terms in the final quarter of 2018, with a particularly strong showing from Crop production. We attribute this to reduced violence across key food-producing regions as well as the effect of the harvest....
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