Nigeria produces yam in vast quantity and accounts for about 70% of the world’s total yam production followed by cote d’ ivoire and Ghana respectively. Yam tubers also known as dioscorea alata, it...

Beans or cowpeas is a legume with about 32 species belonging to the family of leguminosae. Its kidney shaped and nutritional in vitamins like A, B6, E, and more. Rich in iron ore and protein.

Rice is a cereal grain with the African rice known as Oryza glaberrima. Rice is rich in carbohydrates and it’s the third highest global food in the world.

Another name is saccharum officinarum, a perennial tall grass looking like a bamboo cane. Used in the production of table sugar, sweetener, edible preservative, hair removal and also used in food...

Beans or cowpeas is a legume with about 32 species belonging to the family of leguminosae. Its kidney shaped and nutritional in vitamins like A, B6, E, and more. Rich in iron ore and protein.

Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava which is called manihot esculenta belonging to the popular crop of roots and tubers. Introduced by the Portuguese in the mid- 1550s. Rich in carbohydrates,...

Nigeria is the largest producer of soybean in West Africa. Soybean is also called Glycine max, its among the species of legume and widely known as edible bean which has numerous uses. Soybeans is...

Nigeria is among the largest banana producing countries in Africa providing over 2 million tonnes of plantain each year. Another name for plantain is balbisiana hybrids belonging to the perennial...

The botanical name of cocoa is theobroma cacao, the cocoa seed contain fat which is used to produce cocoa butter which in turn makes chocolate. Cocoa cultivation began in 1870 with so much health...

Also known as coffee Arabica is a beverage crop, known in two varieties the Arabica and the robusta. Grown largely in Nigeria and has ranked as one of the most export commodity for Nigeria.

Nigeria is the third largest producer of millet after india and china. The botanical name for millet is panicum, it is in the group of extremely small seeded grasses, and is grown as grain crops for...

Sesame is one of the sought after cash crops in Nigeria. Sesame with the botanical name of sesamum indicumis one of the plants of genus sesamum (benne seed). Sesame is small and flat and looks a lot...