AgroProcessing
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BOI Targets Agriculture With €85m EIB Facility
The Bank of Industry will channel new European Investment Bank funding into agriculture and local healthcare manufacturing in 2027, its chief executive said in Lagos. …
Benue Signs a $250m Food City Deal
Benue has signed a $250 million agreement to build a 30,000-hectare National Food City Complex meant to turn the Food Basket of the Nation into …
Terroso Joins a Global Cold-Chain Alliance
Terroso Agriculture has joined the Global Cold Chain Alliance to build modern cold storage and cut Nigeria's heavy post-harvest losses. Some value chains lose more …
Sunbeth Bets on Cocoa and Cashew Plants
Sunbeth Global Concepts, one of Nigeria's largest cocoa exporters, is building a 70,000-tonne cocoa processing factory and an 80,000-tonne cashew plant in Ogun State. Due …
A Sesame Giant Rises in Kano
Kano has commissioned one of Nigeria's largest grain and sesame processing plants, built by the Kewalram Chanrai Group. The factory can process 40,000 tonnes of …
Anambra Turns Its Tubers Into Export Flour
Anambra has commissioned a new factory that turns cassava, yam and potato into organic flour for local sale and export. The plant is part of …
Africa's Top Kernel Oil, Barely Refined
Nigeria is Africa's biggest producer of palm kernel oil, the lauric oil pressed from oil-palm nuts and used in margarine, confectionery and soap. Yet much …
Nigeria's Palm Wine Skips the Bottle
Palm wine sells briskly across southern Nigeria, yet it still moves by keg and roadside gourd, spoiling within hours. With demand far above supply and …
Nigeria Keeps the Cashew Nut, Dumps the Fruit
Nigeria is a top cashew producer, but it ships the nuts abroad raw and throws away the fruit they hang from. Up to 95% of …
Africa's Pawpaw Leader Lets It Rot
Nigeria is the largest pawpaw producer in Africa, yet much of the fruit spoils before it can be sold. Short shelf life, weak cold chains …
Nigeria's Guava Rarely Reaches a Bottle
Guava packs four times the vitamin C of an orange and grows readily across Nigeria, yet almost none of it is processed into the juices, …
Nigeria's Egusi Falls Short of the Pot
Nigeria is the world's biggest grower of egusi, the melon seed at the heart of the nation's soups, yet it still cannot grow enough. Demand …
Cassava's Next Act: Ethanol and Sweeteners
Nigeria grows more cassava than any country on earth, yet it imports the ethanol, sweeteners and industrial starch it could make from the crop. A …
Soursop's Health Boom Outpaces Its Farms
Soursop, the spiky green fruit prized for its tangy pulp and medicinal reputation, is in rising demand at home and abroad. Yet it is rarely …
Nigeria Squeezes Little From Its Oranges
Nigeria is one of Africa's biggest orange growers, yet it still imports almost all the juice concentrate it drinks. Poor storage means much of the …
Nigeria's Watermelon Rots Before Market
Nigeria grows watermelon in abundance, but studies of its supply chain show most producers and traders lose up to 40% of the crop, some more …
Tamarind Grows Wild, Earns Little
Tamarind, known in Hausa as tsamiya, grows wild across Nigeria and thrives in almost any soil. Yet while India built an industry around it, Nigeria …
Agbalumo Ripens, Then Goes to Waste
Agbalumo, the tangy seasonal fruit Nigerians grow up sucking on street corners, arrives in abundance between December and April and then vanishes. Much of it …
Kano Gains a 400-Tonne Rice Mill
A logistics company has turned miller, commissioning a 400-tonne-a-day rice plant in Kano along with a sack factory, both run on off-grid power. BlackHorse Holdings …
The Sweet Potato Nigeria Barely Processes
Nigeria is Africa's biggest sweet potato grower and the second largest in the world, yet almost all of it is eaten boiled or fried. Little …