Nigeria’s agric output drags in 2018 as flood, insecurity hurt growth

Africa’s agribusiness requires $45bn annual investment to reach $1trn by 2030

Nigeria’s agricultural output for 2018 declined, aided by the spate of insurgency in the war-torn North-Eastern states, farmers-herders crisis in the middle belt and floods that destroyed farmlands across the country. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) GDP report shows that growt

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