Agric subsidy: Farmers fault FG, govt claims six million operators registered - Punch Newspapers

Okechukwu Nnodim,Bola Bamigbola,Bakam Armstrong,Adeniyi Olugbemi, John Charles and Ada WoduThe Presidency and the All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria on Wednesday clashed over the Federal Government’s claim on the registration of farmers.

Ibrahim added that government should not claim it had spent billions of naira on data capturing of farmers.The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, had at the fourth meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development on June 17, said government had created an online portal to register 10 million farmers, adding that the exercise would capture their biographies, geographical information of their farmlands, crops, and volumes of what they could produce.

He said, “I am not aware of any of such and we have not been registered. We are not part of what they are doing. In Bauchi State, the Chairman of the association, Mahmoud Yakubu, in an interview with The PUNCH, stated, “In my capacity as Chairman of Bauchi state farmers’ association, I am not aware of that. Just as you heard it was how I also heard it. What I am saying is that the Federal Government is supposed to carry us along.

“The registration that I am aware of in the state is for those affected by flood last year and it was done throughout the country. Those that suffered losses during #EndSARS protest were also told to register.”

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