Anthony Nwakaegho/NaijaAgroNet
President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Dr Kanayo Nwanze has canvassed for
training of farmers on agriculture technology.
He made this call during his recent working visit to IFAD-assisted
Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme (CBNRMP) in Asaba, Delta
State, saying that training of Nigerian farmers on agro technology would avail
them better chance to use fertiliser and water harvesting techniques in
farming.
Nwanze lamented the role agriculture played in the history of the
nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) which was put between 70 to 80 per cent
before it nose-dived to abysmal less than 10 per cent and said that the
discovery of crude oil resulted in the neglect of agriculture leading to the
decline in the production of groundnut, cocoa, rice and many other crops.
NaijaAgroNet noted that CBNRMP
is being implemented in the nine Niger Delta states of Abia, Bayelsa,
Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers aimed at improving the standard
of living and quality of life of or at least 400,000 poor rural households with
emphasis on women and youths.
He explained that the ongoing agricultural transformation agenda of the
Federal Government has come to restore the country’s lost glory in agriculture
and urged Nigerians to embrace all aspects of agriculture because crude oil
would one day finish while agriculture would continue to be renewed by nature.
In their remarks, the IFAD Country Programme Manager in Nigeria, Ms
Atsuko Toda, urged the state programme officers to utilise the two-year
extension of the programme to ensure the achievement of the goals of the
programme, while the CBNRMP National Coordinator Jumbo-Ibeakuzie commended IFAD
for cutting down the counterpart funding of the participating local governments
from 40 per cent to 20 per cent, to make them more committed to the programme.
*with additional report from NAN
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