Watch the full episode here. Nigeria is the No. 1 consumer of rice in all of Africa. And short domestic supply has made prices skyrocket. Farmers are whacking at these giant piles of stalks for ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — On a normal day, Adeniyi Shoremi would eat three square meals. Breakfast for Shoremi — who lives in Lagos, Nigeria — would be bread, eggs, and a chocolate milkshake.

Nigeria’s rice production has hit the lowest level in four years as high production costs force farmers to reduce their ...

TUNDE OYEKOLA examines the unprecedented dry season flooding in three Kwara LGAs, where over 5,000 rice farmers lost more than 3,000 hectares of farmland worth N11.5bnAs Nigeria grapples with the ...

Segun Atho is the National Vice President, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN). In this interview with Charles Okonji, the Lagos-based farmer who went into agriculture due to his inability ...

As expected, this form of swallow comes with the orange colour of carrots and can be enjoyed with any type of Nigerian soup. Somewhere in Nigeria, a chef decided they wanted to eat rice for dinner ...

He said: "According to various sources of data on rice production in 2024, Nigeria's paddy rice production is estimated at about 8.1 million metric tons, which is a slight decline from previous ...

Oyebamiji Yusuf Opeyemi In the battle against climate change and its devastating impact on agriculture, researchers have ...

On January 18, 2022, the CBN and the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) made headlines with the unveiling of rice pyramids in Abuja ...

In today’s Nigerian newspapers review programme, Today in the News, Vanguard leads with a report of how the cost of a 50kg bag of rice jumped from N2,500 in 2000 to over N100,000 24 years later.

As at the end of 2021, Thailand exported only 2,160 metric tons to Nigeria, thereby saving the nation foreign exchange and helping preserve jobs in Nigeria. National rice output ramped up from ...