Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

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 ...

Sulieman Mohammed, who has started witnessing his breakthrough in dry season rice production was devastated when a flood last week, washed away his entire investment. The incident left him in agony ...

The Gullah Geechee descended from Africans enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations. Efforts are underway to ...

The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor stretches from the coast of Florida to the coast of North Carolina. Here's what you need ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

A yet to be identified group of herdsmen with a large number of cows have allegedly invaded and destroyed a five-hectare rice plantation belonging to one Okegbenro Julius, in Ilupeju Ibaro Village ...

In 2024-25, over 32 lakh hectares of Punjab’s agricultural land was under rice cultivation. Agroforestry offers a ... For instance, a teak plantation on one acre of land could generate up to R 1.3 ...

When there was no flooding, we realised over 3m metric tonnes of rice here annually. “We thank the government for coming to our aid immediately. This should not end here.

The Kwara State Government has dispatched a high-powered delegation to Shonga Rice Plantation in Edu Local Government Area to investigate the unusual flooding that has submerged thousands of hectares ...

Kwara State Government delegation on Sunday visited Shonga in Edu Local Government Area of the state to establish the causes of the unusual flooding that has submerged rice farmlands stretching ...