Food Price News & Market Intelligence
Real-time food price analysis, agricultural market updates, and inflation tracking across Nigeria and Africa.
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 …
A $183m Push to Rebuild Northern Value Chains
Nigeria, IFAD and France's development agency are rolling out a $183.1 million programme to rebuild farming value chains across nine northern states. The eight-year plan …
Nigeria Breeds a Better Backyard Chicken
Nigeria has approved MoorBeta, a home-grown meat chicken bred over more than a decade to thrive in the country's heat. It reaches about 2.8kg in …
Nigeria Builds a Gene Bank for Its Livestock
Nigeria has adopted unified national protocols to identify, count and monitor its indigenous livestock breeds, a step toward a national gene bank. Backers say safeguarding …
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 …
Nigeria Bets on Forecasts to Beat the Weather
Nigeria has launched a Gates-funded project to turn weather forecasts into a commercial service for farmers. The Climate-Smart Agribusiness Partnership for Resilience will push climate …
Nigeria Bars Food Imports From Outside West Africa
Nigeria has banned 17 categories of goods, including poultry, beef, eggs, vegetable oil, sugar, cocoa products and tomato paste, from countries outside West Africa. The …
Nigeria Flies In Its Christmas Turkey
Turkey is a festive-table favourite in Nigeria, but most of it arrives frozen from Italy, the Netherlands and South Africa. With local poultry meeting only …
Nigeria Bags Its Crops in Imported Sacks
Nigeria exports cocoa, sesame and cashew, but often in jute sacks bought from abroad. Those sacks come from kenaf, a fibre crop that grows in …
Nigeria Grows Castor, Imports the Oil
Nigeria is among the world's biggest castor seed producers, yet it still spends billions of naira importing castor oil for cosmetics, drugs and industry. Backers …
Edo Harvests Its Own 500-Hectare Maize
Edo State has begun harvesting more than 500 hectares of maize from its own farms, part of a push into large-scale production of maize, cassava …
Oyo Trains Farmers for a Hotter Climate
Oyo State has begun training 880 farmers and extension officers in climate-smart agriculture, aiming to lift food output and cut post-harvest losses as erratic weather, …