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Ogun State Commissioner for Agriculture Adeola Odedina has said over 50,000 youth farmers have been registered for the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP).
The commissioner spoke when he appeared before the House of Assembly Committee on Agriculture at the House of Assembly Complex in Oke Mosan, Abeokuta.
Odedina explained that farmers will enjoy industrial linkage with investors, aggregation of farmers with industries, extension support, intervention programme and linkage with market and opportunities for being part of the programme.
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Other benefits, according to the commissioner, are trainings as this remains key, provision of farmlands to the over 8,000 farmers who do not have across the three senatorial districts, and ensuring that farmers do not get cut off from intervention programmes, among others.
Odedina said 23,730 farmers were captured for cassava; Rice (3,375’); Maize (3,000); Poultry (8,875); Cotton (2,000), among others.
He promised that his ministry will be involved in Public Private Partnership (PPP) to revive rice mills and enhance other agricultural opportunities that will be propelled by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), just as the bank will provide inputs and anchor.
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