This development, NaijaAgroNet gathered is being put together
under the Fadama III additional financing, which is expected to go into value
chain additional commercial production of cassava next year.
Commissioner for Agriculture, Mechanization, Processing and
Export, Mr. Afam Mbanefo, told participants at a meeting with agro dealers,
Chester chairmen, micro finance banks, rice and cassava off-takers on how best
to maximize implementation arrangements of the project, stressing that what had
been achieved in commercial production of quality, stone free rice, would be
replicated in quality production of various cassava products, so that cassava
farmers could make more profits.
Mbanefo also said, Governor Willie Obiano was very much
committed to taking all aspects of agricultural production in the state to
enviable heights, noting that any farmer in the state who was not prepared to
maximize and commercialize agriculture, should quit agriculture.
He warned against any form of dishonesty or politics towards
the realization of the state’s agricultural revolution, noting that the sector
was a sure way of boosting the state’s economy.
The State Project Coordinator for FADAMA, Mr. Patrick
Egbueh, said that the forum was intended to bring both the project and the
investors together to identify areas that were not working well and effect
correction in line with the implementation arrangements of the project.
NaijaAgroNet further gathered that stakeholders in
attendance assured on their readiness to collaborate with the farmers in terms
of credit facilities, provided the farmers met their conditions.
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