Boma Achenimie
Arsenal are edging closer to completing their mega-money move for West Ham United midfielder, Declan Rice with the Hammers planning to replace their captain with three players. The Gunners are preparing a club record £92…
Goli Innocent
Declan Rice has been on the radar of Arsenal for a very long time, and the is ready to play in the Champions League, a proposition that Arsenal can guarantee. Rice has become one of…
Taiwo Hassan
Nigeria’s agritech startup, RiceAfrika.com, was announced with 16 other startups as a winners for the Circulars Accelerator Cohort 2022 by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in a globally live-streamed event from Davos Switzerland recently. The…
Over 642,860 smallholder farmers across 35 states of the federation have received support from Unity Bank Plc, under the CBN’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP), to boost food production and attain self-sufficiency in rice production in…
Bayo Akomolafe
Despite the claim by Federal Government that Nigeria has become Africa’s largest rice producer, the country is still in deficit of 1.56million tonnes valued at N358 billion ($778.2million). The shortfall is 30.95 per cent of…
Bayo Akomolafe
Thailand exporters have lost 1.2million tonnes of rice valued at N385.2billion ($819.6million) in Nigerian market following import restrictions by the government. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s import restriction has boosted local production by 11.2per…
Omobolaji Obisesan
Processing agricultural products – adding value by transforming them from basic commodities – increases their worth, appeal and market value. In the case of rice, processing is an important and distinct feature in its production.…