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Federal Government Task Major Actors in Agric Development on Sustainable Agriculture production


In bid to restructure the nature agricultural sector and come up with noble policy to develop the sector with regards to area of strength shared among viable active states on notion of achievement and shared weaknesses.

The drive was geared toward having research base mechanism where the agricultural viable states in Nigeria would compare their area of strength and weakness to fashion out plans that would bring about enhance agro-sectoral policy, which will serve as the alternative to oil that would drive the nation Gross Domestic Product to an enviable height.
Agriculture is no doubt the mean that can drive Nigeria economy, where technology prowess seems to be at less demands in this part of the world.
Presidency has however raised a team to experts from the institute of strategic study, Kuru-Jos,  to embark on pair review mechanism of states with improve agric advantages and come up with a White-Paper that would guide actors in Agric industry aright for the development of Agro-Allied sector in Nigeria.owever that the drive was geared towards having stable programmes that would make agricultural production at a sustainable project attractive to both foreign and private investors in the project.
They note with fact that their finding in Anambra, would help the team to lean new idea to achieving robust agric development., especially in the area of exportable products like rice, Ugwu and Saint leave, which the team promise to leverage more in their report for other states to emulate.
Responding on behalf of the state house of Assembly, the member representing Aniocha 1 state constituency, Engineer  Charles Ezeani described the visit as laudable, stating that it was  a medium where both team were able to cross fertilize ideas on how to move the nation agric sector forward.
He outlined the major challenged bedeviling the growth of the sector to outright denial of accessing loan facility for farmers, urged government to streamline the  network and make it accessible to genuine farmers, which wil become the hallmark of achieving improve agricultural drive to restore the nation economy.
The team disclosed leader in an interview disclosed that the mandate giving to them by president Muhammadu Buhari was to ensure area of strengths and weakness are itemized and charged them to fashion out plans where every state in Nigerian would be actively involved in improve agricultural development as the next product to drive Nigeria economy to depose Oil monopoly.
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