Nigeria Seeks Investors for Agri-Processing Zones

10 June 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa's second biggest economy lures agricultural investors as it seeks to diversify its hydrocarbon dependent economy

Nigeria has attracted billions of dollars of inflows in the agriculture sector over the last two years, as it looks to diversify its economy away from oil and gas dependence and to meet food security targets. It is now seeking investors for new agricultural processing zones, the country's minister of agriculture Akinwumi Adesina says.

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