Agriculture Daily Digest – December 24, 2025

Your daily Agriculture & Agribusiness digest 🌱. From crops to livestock, here are today’s top updates.

1. 🇳🇬 Kano farmers narrate benefits of agricultural intervention project
2. 🇳🇬 ‘Subsidise agriculture, that’s how it works,’ ex-Botswana President Masisi urges Nigerian govt
3. Democrats call for guardrails on farm aid, improved transparency – Agri-Pulse
4. Callahan, USDA nominees win Senate approval – Agri-Pulse
5. Sinkholes in Turkey’s agricultural heartland fuel farmers’ concerns – Reuters
6. US farm agency lost 20,000 staff in first five months of Trump administration – Reuters
7. What Tariff Announcements Mean for Farmers and Fertilizer Costs – AgWeb
8. Grain and Livestock Rally Monday: Can the Markets Build on it? – AgWeb
9. FAO-led projects to make agriculture resilient and sustainable in support of 1 million people – Food and Agriculture Organization
10. UN agencies welcome news that famine has been pushed back in the Gaza Strip, but warn fragile gains could be reversed without increased and sustained support – Food and Agriculture Organization
11. China Imports No U.S. Soybeans for Third Month; Argentine Arrivals Up 634% – Successful Farming
12. 3 Big Things Today, Dec. 23, 2025 – Successful Farming
13. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
14. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
15. 🇳🇬 Dangote refinery reduces petrol minimum bulk purchase to 250,000 litres – Nairametrics
16. 🇳🇬 Debt service gulps 72% of FG revenue in seven months – Nairametrics
17. 🇳🇬 Nigeria lacks framework to attract tractor leasing investments – Samuel
18. 🇳🇬 Nigeria pilots AI-enabled digital extension system to bridge farm advisory gap
19. 🇳🇬 Homepage | The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News – The Guardian Nigeria News
20. 🇳🇬 Edo govt says ₦939b 2026 budget targets jobs, roads and social services – The Guardian Nigeria News
21. Damage from Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka Estimated at $4.1 Billion – World Bank Group
22. Open Knowledge Repository – World Bank Group
23. 🇳🇬 39-year-old Aina becomes OAU prof – Punch Newspapers
24. 🇳🇬 Punch newspapers – Breaking News, Nigerian News & Top Stories – Punch Newspapers
25. 🇳🇬 Botswana: Marriage and Migration – What Happens When Men Return to the Family Home in Botswana – allAfrica.com
26. 🇳🇬 Food and Agriculture — Home – allAfrica.com
27. Tinubu orders nationwide security overhaul, directs NEC to convert grazing reserves into ranches
28. How changing weather is reshaping life for a Nigerian fishing community (III)
29. How youth unemployment drives deforestation in Rivers community
30. N1.2trn Agric Probe: Reps panel threatens bench warrant against BOA, ARCN chiefs

That’s it for agriculture today 🚜. What sector excites you most — crops, livestock, or exports? 💬