BREAKING NEWS! BREAKING NEWS!! ......NIGERIA'S MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AKINWUNMI ADESHINA EMERGES PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AT THE BANK'S MEETING IN ABIDJAN COTE D'IVOIRE.
This is a good Omen as we experience dawn of a new era....
In other news Agriculture is going to take the center stage in the New Government coming on Board Tomorrow.So get Prepared To participate actively in the Agro-commodities that can guarantee steady income in Naira and Foreign exchange..
NIGERIAN AGRIC SECTOR RECEIVES
US$136.5MN FOR 2015 FARMING SEASON
Nigeria has
released US$136.5mn to boost its agricultural sector and improve food security
for 2015.
Goodluck
Jonathan, President of Nigeria, said, “As crude oil prices decline, we must
create new wealth from the richness of our soils, the vastness of our rivers
and the abundance of our cheap labour. We will produce more, and industrialise
the agricultural sector.”
According to
Jonathan, the US$136.5mn fund is expected to encourage the farmers to plant
thrice a year to boost food production and eliminate hunger and poverty.
Akinwunmi
Adesina, minister of agriculture in Nigeria, added that the rice farmers across
the country now had a new lease of life, owing to the transformation taking
place in the sector.
Adesina
noted, “The rice revolution is taking place across the country — in Kebbi,
Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Sokoto, Bauchi, Gombe, Niger, Kogi, Ogun,
Ekiti, Ebonyi, Anambra, Delta, Edo and Bayelsa State.”
The number
of seed companies had also increased from 11 to 134 in the past three years,
increasing access to high quality seed from 4,252 metric tonnes in 2011 to more
than 149,484 metric tonnes in 2015, revealed Jonathan.
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