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🐝🌱 FG moves to integrate beekeeping into the NL-GAS initiative, boosting honey production, youth jobs, and climate-smart agriculture. Bees remain vital to food security, biodiversity, and ecosystem health. 🍯📈

#Beekeeping #Apiculture #Nigeria #FoodSecurity #Climate

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🐔🚨 FAO and the Federal Government have launched a $350,000 initiative to strengthen avian flu surveillance, diagnostics, and biosecurity in Nigeria as new H5N1 outbreaks emerge. Protecting poultry means protecting food security and livelihoods. 🌾

#AvianFlu #Poultry #Agric

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🌴 Okomu Oil generated ₦172.6bn from palm products in 2025, with profits soaring and shareholders set to receive a ₦55 per share dividend. The company also celebrated 50 years of growth, expansion, & sustainability. 📈🇳🇬

#OkomuOil #PalmOil #Agribusiness #Nigeria #Agriculture

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📈 Food prices rose again in April 2026 despite sharp annual declines in key staples. Tomatoes, beans, garri, onions, and tubers all recorded month-on-month increases, highlighting ongoing supply challenges and inflationary pressures. 🍅🌾

#FoodPrices #Nigeria #Inflation

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🚨 Rising insecurity is threatening agricultural research and Nigeria’s export crop value chains. Stakeholders warn that attacks on research institutions like CRIN could disrupt innovation, investment, and non-oil export growth. 🌱📉

#Nigeria #CRIN #Food #Exports #Security

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📊 Nigerian food companies Q1 2026 stock performance:

🟢 Union Dicon Salt +111.43%
🟢 Nestlé Nigeria +73.39%
🟢 NASCON Allied Industries +41.40%
🟢 Dangote Sugar +16.28%
🟢 Cadbury Nigeria +6.78%

🔴 Honeywell Flour -6.52%
🔴 NNFM -5.81%
🔴 BUA Foods -0.11%

#NGX #NigeriaStocks

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Eid Mubarak 🌙✨

As we celebrate this season of sacrifice, gratitude, compassion, and togetherness, may our hearts be filled with peace and our communities strengthened with love and kindness.

Wishing you and your loved ones joy, blessings, and abundance this Eid.

#EidMubarak

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opportunity for Nigerian female farmers (in Ondo State).

[naijafemalefarmer @naijafemalefama]

I’m working on a cassava project with a cassava processing company in Ondo state. You want to go into Agriculture but you have no capital, no land and you are in ONDO state this is for you👇👇.

We will provide you with;
Access to land
Access to quality cassava stem
Every inputs necessary for the cultivation.
Market access? We Dey for you ✊
We offtake and weigh what you have produced and pay you accordingly, during the planting season you are also allowed to Inter-crop with crops that would not affect its growth so as to get quick returns even before harvest .

Juicy Rt? Kindly retweet and let the opportunity spread.
This project is sponsored by Mastercard foundation in conjunction with PIND
The project is specifically for young women age 18-35 (10% male is considered).

If you are interested, comment in the CS, know someone who will be interested? Tag them to this post.

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@ibrahimanex These things keep happening and the government are not doing anything. From federal to state and even local levels.

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📊 AFEX Commodities Market Update (May 11 – May 15)

📈 Cocoa led the gains, rising +5.31% to close at 5,318.34, while Paddy Rice also recorded a +1.18% increase.

📉 Sorghum fell -1.92%, and Maize dipped slightly.

➡️ Soy Beans and Raw Cashew remained the same.

#Commodities

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📈🍲 Food prices are once again driving inflation in Nigeria 🇳🇬—pressuring households as food inflation climbs to 16.06% in April 2026 ⚠️

From yam to tomatoes, staples keep getting costlier 🥔🍅

Full report in bio 🔗

#Inflation #NigeriaEconomy #FoodPrices #CostOfLiving

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⚠️🍅 Cheap doesn’t always mean safe. Rotten pepper (“esa/baaje”) may carry harmful toxins linked to food poisoning & long-term health risks 🚫🧫

Protect your health—choose fresh always 🌱

Full story in bio 🔗

#FoodSafety #Health #Nigeria #PublicHealth #FoodSecurity

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🌍🚀 Big opportunity for African AgriTech founders!

UNDP opens applications for timbuktoo AgriTech Hub 🇬🇭 supporting startups with funding access, mentorship & scale-up support 🌱💡

Apply via link in bio 🔗

#AgriTech #Startups #AfricaInnovation #UNDP #FoodSystems #Agriculture

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🍊 Benue is bringing juice production back to life! 🇳🇬

✨ Benfruits factory completes successful trial run, set to process tonnes of local fruits into packaged juice & concentrate 🚜🥤

Full story in bio 🔗

#Benue #Agriculture #AgroProcessing #FoodSecurity #MadeInNigeria

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🌱 Dangote Fertiliser expands Africa’s agri-power play in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 with a $4bn investment set to boost food security and fertiliser self-sufficiency 🚜💪

Full details in bio 🔗

#Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Ethiopia #DangoteGroup #AfricaAgri

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📊 Food Companies Stocks Weekly Update (May 11 – 15) 🇳🇬

📈 Top Gainers:
🔹 UNIONDICON +9.87% 🚀
🔹 NASCON +6.73%
🔹 HONYFLOUR +3.85%

📉 Decliners:
🔸 CADBURY -2.34%
🔸 DANGSUGAR -2.15%

⏸️ Flat Performances:
▪️ BUAFOODS 0.00%
▪️ NNFM 0.00%
▪️ NESTLE 0.00%

#NGX #Stocks

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🌱🇳🇬 Nigeria is targeting $3 billion in ginger exports by 2028 through a new revival programme powered by tissue culture technology.

🔗 Read more via the link in bio.

#Agriculture #Ginger #NigeriaAgriculture #FoodSecurity #Agribusiness #Exports #Farmers #Mechanisation

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🌧️🚨 Nigeria is set to commence a nationwide flood sensitisation campaign ahead of the 2026 rainy season to improve preparedness and protect communities, farmlands, and livelihoods. 🌾📢

🔗 Read more via the link in bio.

#FloodAlert #Nigeria #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity

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📈 Nigerian agriculture stocks week (May 11–15, 2026): 🌾💹

🔺 Top Gainers
🐄 LIVESTOCK: +22.50%
🍫 FTNCOCOA: +19.88%
➖ Stable
🌴 OKOMUOIL: 0.00%
🌴 PRESCO: 0.00%
🔻 Decliners
🌾 ELLAHLAKES: -0.90%
📉 ZICHIS: -11.78%

#NigerianStocks #Agriculture #Stocks #NGX #Investing