Article(s) about Agriculture

Report Highlights: Nigeria is a huge export market for wheat and rice. High demand for wheat flour for the production of bread, noodles, pasta and biscuits (cookies) contributes to Nigeria’s wheat market worth approximately $1 billion in U.S. to Nigeria exports. Domestic wheat production is [Read more]

Report Highlights: The Nigeria Senate passed the Biosafety Bill into law on June 1, 2011. However, one year after the President is yet to sign it into law. The law leans heavily on the precautionary approach and requires certification and mandatory labeling for imports of all products of [Read more]

Report Highlights: The Government of Nigeria’s (GON) attempt to remove its gasoline subsidy on the first day of year 2012 resulted in an industrial strike, severely crippling economic activity for the week that it lasted. After lengthy negotiations with organized labor, the GON was able to [Read more]

Report Highlights: The GON has announced plans to cut wheat imports by introducing a new policy compelling cassava flour inclusion in wheat flour. Part of their plan is to impose a levy of 15 percent on wheat grain imports, which will increase the effective duty from 5 percent to 20 percent. The [Read more]

Report Highlights: The Government of Nigeria (GON) has resolved to encourage domestic rice production by restricting rice imports to conserve foreign exchange. Rice importers now import rice from India following the recent reentry of that country into the non-basmati rice trade. Post: Lagos [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria's grain production this year is up slightly from the average crop of 2010. Farmers increased average and rainfall patterns were near ideal for the growing season. The arrival of the new crop in the market has not brought any respite to poultry producers as grain [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria's agricultural development is constrained by the lack of access to credit for the predominantly smallholder farmers. Efforts by successive governments to address the problem have been largely unsuccessful. Commercial banks in the country perceive agricultural finance [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria's rice imports have increased largely because imported parboiled rice competes with other basic food staples. The decision of Government of Nigeria (GON) to ban rice imports through its land borders has somehow reduced cross-border smuggling. Furthermore, rice [Read more]

Report Highlights: After several years of discussion and debate, the Nigeria Senate passed the Biosafety Bill into law on June 1, 2011. The passage of the law demonstrates that the country is prepared to receive, regulate and most importantly, commercialize biotechnology products. The law leans [Read more]

Report Highlights: Total food and agricultural imports are estimated to reach $4.0 billion by end of 2011 from about $3.7 billion in 2010. Wheat from the U.S. accounts for more than 20% of Nigeria's total food and agricultural total imports. Exports of other U.S. agricultural products such as [Read more]