Ms Beth Dunford, AfDB’s Vice President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at the sideline of the Bank’s 2022 Annual meetings in Accra, Ghana.
According to her, the technology is currently being deployed in Nigeria and it’s being cultivated on 87,000 hectares and in this season, we can go up to 250,000 hectares. “This is the basis of the 1.5 billion dollars Africa Emergency Food Production Facility that was just approved by the Board. “Every country is eligible but we are working on that now but again, building on the work that is already on-going in Nigeria to scale up quickly.“There are also technologies that we can working on to deploy which are needed in Nigeria which you know is very diverse with different climates.
“It is not just the farmers but those within the food system, it could be the processors, transporters, aggregators.
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