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Abidjan-based Banque Nationale d’investissement pledges to back coffee, cocoa exporters with around $274 million for new season

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Banque Nationale d’Investissement (BNI), also known as National Bank of Investment, vowed to support exporters of coffee and cocoa of Côte d’Ivoire with around $274 million for a new season starting in few days, Abidjan Net reports. Jerôme Ahua, Deputy Director of the bank, made the announcement during a networking event of coffee and cocoa […]
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Nigeria’s Edo state increases investment to revive palm oil production

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A sustainable project in Nigeria’s southern Edo state is helping to get the country’s palm oil industry back on its feet decades after it was eclipsed by now leading producers Indonesia and Malaysia. Since the 1960s, when Nigeria was still the world’s top producer of palm oil, the substance that is extracted from oil palm […]