Agriculture Daily Digest – December 28, 2025

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

1. 🇳🇬 SEC sets January 31 deadline for 2026 CMO registration renewal – Nairametrics
2. 🇳🇬 CPPE urges new NMDPRA, NUPRC CEOs to prioritise domestic refining and production growth – Nairametrics
3. Agtech Seedlings: Bonsai Robotics secures $15M to advance automated fruit harvesters
4. Farmland loans for regenerative agriculture: FBN and Walton family launch ‘first-of-its-kind’ lending program
5. 🇳🇬 FG reaffirms support for Somalia, rejects recognition of Somaliland independence – Punch Newspapers
6. 🇳🇬 Bauchi Vows Full Implementation of Agric Framework – Punch Newspapers
7. 🇳🇬 Kano farmers narrate benefits of agricultural intervention project
8. 🇳🇬 ‘Subsidise agriculture, that’s how it works,’ ex-Botswana President Masisi urges Nigerian govt
9. Democrats call for guardrails on farm aid, improved transparency – Agri-Pulse
10. Tim Gannon – Agri-Pulse
11. West Bank: 72 000 families urgently require emergency agricultural assistance, new FAO survey finds – Food and Agriculture Organization
12. The Asia-Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN) welcomes its new co-coordinator – Food and Agriculture Organization
13. Grains See Santa Claus Rally: Livestock Get a Lump of Coal – AgWeb
14. 5 Key Ag Policy Changes Farmers Should Watch in 2026 – AgWeb
15. 🇳🇬 Tanzania: AGRA’s 2025 Impact – How Agriculture Is Creating Jobs, Dignity, and Opportunity for Tanzania’s Youth – allAfrica.com
16. 🇳🇬 Liberian Senate Backs Agriculture Development Bank to Boost Rural Finance – 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. 🇳🇬 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. 3 Big Things Today, Dec. 26, 2025 – Successful Farming
22. How a Student’s Tractor Restoration Honored a Family Member’s Legacy – Successful Farming
23. Damage from Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka Estimated at $4.1 Billion – World Bank Group
24. Child employment in agriculture, male (% of male economically active children ages 7-14) – Other small states – World Bank Open Data
25. Sinkholes in Turkey’s agricultural heartland fuel farmers’ concerns – Reuters
26. US farm agency lost 20,000 staff in first five months of Trump administration – Reuters
27. Branch International invests in students’ digital future with laptops and learning resource donations in Lagos – Nairametrics
28. Guinness Nigeria turns 75: A celebration of culture, community, and legacy – Nairametrics
29. Guinness, AustinLaz lead gains as market capitalization hits N97.8 trillion on Christmas Eve – Nairametrics
30. Diesel price drops 2.57% to N1,409.61 in November—NBS – Nairametrics

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