Agribusiness
Commercial farming, agri-startups, and food business
Guinea Fowl, Chicken's Neglected Rival
Nigeria keeps an estimated 50 million guinea fowl, a hardy, disease-tolerant bird with leaner, higher-protein meat than chicken. Yet almost all of it is raised …
Quails Lay a Quicker Naira
Small-scale Nigerian farmers are turning to quail, a tiny bird that eats little, resists disease and lays almost daily. With chicken feed costs punishing poultry …
Lagos Vegetables Await A Price Line
Leafy vegetables are absent from the FoodPrices Lagos survey for the week of 14 August 2026. This explainer covers what Lagos farmers and traders told …
Nigeria Takes Its Food Trade to Paris
Flour Mills of Nigeria partnered the French government at the 2026 Paris International Agricultural Show, anchoring a Nigerian pavilion backed by Dangote, BUA and two …
A $12bn Food Merger Reshapes West Africa
Two agribusiness heavyweights, Singapore's Wilmar and Nigeria's TGI Group, are merging their Nigerian and Beninese food operations into a 50:50 venture addressing a market worth …
Saudi Arabia Buys Control of Olam Agri
A Saudi sovereign wealth arm, SALIC, has taken an 80% controlling stake in Olam Agri for $1.88bn, gaining a major player in Nigeria's rice, wheat, …
A Cheap Protein Nigeria Barely Raises
Rabbit meat is lean, cheap to produce and multiplies fast, and experts call it a ready answer to Nigeria's protein shortage. Yet only a tiny …
Palm Wine's Long Road to a Bottle
Palm wine sustains a vast informal economy of tappers and roadside bars across Nigeria, yet it rarely leaves the country. A short shelf life and …
Nigeria Grows Too Few Mushrooms
igeria produces only about 300 tonnes of mushrooms a year against demand of at least 1,200 tonnes, and imports fill much of the gap. With …
Brewers Bet on Nigeria's Sorghum
Sorghum, Nigeria's second most important cereal, is drawing brewers and food processors chasing a cheap, gluten-free grain. Nigerian Breweries alone needs about 120,000 tonnes a …
Nigeria's Snails Can't Meet Demand
Snail farming is booming as a low-cost, high-protein agribusiness, but structured farms cannot keep up with what Nigerians and foreign buyers want. With demand for …
Jigawa Reels In $140m in Farm Deals
Jigawa State has closed its second investment summit with $140 million in commitments, much of it aimed at agriculture and agro-processing. The state that grows …
Nigeria's Tiger Nut Chases a Superfood Boom
Tiger nut, the little tuber behind kunun aya, is winning fans worldwide as a plant-based superfood used in milks, flour and oil. Nigeria is a …
Nigeria Bets on Home-Grown Sugar
Nigeria produces less than 5% of the sugar it eats, but a backward integration push is trying to change that. Dangote and BUA are pouring …
BUA Foods Bets on Volume: Port Harcourt Oil Mill, Noodles Plant and Feed Mill Due Next Year as Rabiu Tells Tinubu Scale Will Pull Staple Prices Down
Nigeria's packaged food market is about to get a new heavyweight in noodles and edible oils. BUA Foods chairman Abdul Samad Rabiu, speaking after a …
A Million Tonnes of Paddy, Guaranteed
Dangote Rice has signed a ten year agreement with Niger State to buy one million tonnes of paddy rice, backed by 25,000 hectares of commercial …
Niger Delta Puts $500m Into Food, Not Oil
The Federal Government has launched a $500 million Niger Delta Agricultural Investment Fund, a commercial vehicle meant to lift food output, draw private capital and …
BUA Scales Up Food to Cut Prices
BUA Group says it will expand its food production across Nigeria in 2026, aiming to ease prices and become the country's largest food business by …
Nigeria's Biggest Brewer Grows Its Own Barley
Nigerian Breweries has proven that barley, a crop it imports about 200,000 tonnes of each year, can be grown locally. More than 1,000 smallholder farmers …
Nigeria Opens Farmland to Young Agripreneurs
Nigeria has launched the Youth in Agribusiness Land Trust Fund to tackle the biggest barrier facing young farmers: access to land. The scheme aims to …