Agriculture Daily Digest – December 25, 2025

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

1. 🇳🇬 Homepage | The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News – The Guardian Nigeria News
2. 🇳🇬 Edo govt says ₦939b 2026 budget targets jobs, roads and social services – The Guardian Nigeria News
3. 🇳🇬 Kano farmers narrate benefits of agricultural intervention project
4. 🇳🇬 ‘Subsidise agriculture, that’s how it works,’ ex-Botswana President Masisi urges Nigerian govt
5. Democrats call for guardrails on farm aid, improved transparency – Agri-Pulse
6. Callahan, USDA nominees win Senate approval – Agri-Pulse
7. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
8. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
9. 3 Big Things Today, Dec. 24, 2025 – Successful Farming
10. $15 Million Kansas–Oklahoma Farmland Auction Draws Strong Bidding – Successful Farming
11. Sinkholes in Turkey’s agricultural heartland fuel farmers’ concerns – Reuters
12. US farm agency lost 20,000 staff in first five months of Trump administration – Reuters
13. Damage from Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka Estimated at $4.1 Billion – World Bank Group
14. World Development Indicators – World Bank Data Catalog
15. 🇳🇬 Food and Agriculture — Home – allAfrica.com
16. 🇳🇬 Tanzania: AGRA’s 2025 Impact – How Agriculture Is Creating Jobs, Dignity, and Opportunity for Tanzania’s Youth – allAfrica.com
17. 🇳🇬 Nigeria lacks framework to attract tractor leasing investments – Samuel
18. 🇳🇬 Nigeria pilots AI-enabled digital extension system to bridge farm advisory gap
19. Grains See Santa Claus Rally: Livestock Get a Lump of Coal – AgWeb
20. Moment of Truth: The Louisiana Farmer Who Captured Trump’s Ear, Put Human Face on Ag Crisis – AgWeb
21. 🇳🇬 APC Chieftain Hails Tinubu as Troops Take War to Bandits – Punch Newspapers
22. 🇳🇬 39-year-old Aina becomes OAU prof – Punch Newspapers
23. 🇳🇬 SEC sets January 31 deadline for 2026 CMO registration renewal – Nairametrics
24. 🇳🇬 Debt service gulps 72% of FG revenue in seven months – Nairametrics
25. 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
26. Job Search – jobs.fao.org
27. Ireland champions EU’s climate roadmap with carbon framework – The Guardian Nigeria News
28. How green transition can support Africa’s development – The Guardian Nigeria News
29. Why ministry of livestock development should tackle animal protein crises – The Guardian Nigeria News
30. Chaim Zach and the rise of agrited: Driving protein prosperity across Nigeria through innovative, sustainable farming solutions – The Guardian Nigeria News

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