intervention scheme through the Agric for Food and Job Plan , aimed at increasing food production and creating jobs
This will be achieved via investment in the sector through the provision of zero-interest input financing options such as fertilizers and seeds to farmers across the 36 states in Nigeria and the F.C.T., to produce a harvest that can sell domestically and internationally. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Agriculture, Andrew Kwasari, during the launch of AFJP programme, Tuesday, in Abuja, said the project would, among others, increase agricultural productivity, create job opportunities in the sector, strengthen Nigeria’s food supply chain, and help the economy recover speedily.
He added that trained enumerators have been sent out to identify farmers and their farms to ensure proper targeting of beneficiaries and after completion of the identification and registration phase, farmers under the evidence-based database would be able to access input financing facilities to carry on their 2020 wet season farming. They will also have a guaranteed market in the form of assigned off-takers.
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