The Managing Director of Niji Group Limited, Mr. Kolawole
Adeniji has advised the Federal Government to deliberately act differently by
focusing on some 10 targeted crops for foreign exchanged on the nation’s
comparative advantage, reports NaijaAgroNet.
He also canvassed for improved funding of research
institutions across the country.
Speaking at the 2016 All Nigerian Editors Conference (ANEC)
organized in the garden city of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State by the Nigerian
Guild of Editors (NGE), Adeniji said that Nigeria must learn to do some things
differently if the nation must be competitive at this time.
Adeniji who was dwelt on the Economic Diversification:
Agriculture as Option for a Prosperous Nigeria, said that its now time for the
country to act in a different way , for instance by lowering cost of accessing
credit facility, enthrone mechanization of farming operations, improve rural
infrastructures such as rural roads and other amenities to encourage citizens
to stop urban migration by themselves.
He also said that there is need to deliberately fund
research institutions in the country in a manner that could add value, improve
extension services, and earn public sector investments.
The government of Nigeria, he said, has to set up commodity
boards cum commodity aggregation scheme.
The Niji Group boss advocated the daily working hour
constraint should be reviewed into hourly, stressing that it will afford public
sector workforce to use their energy and hours
effectively.
Further, he underscored the fact that some of the products
Nigeria should take comparative advantages on include Cassava, Cocoa,
Groundnuts, Oil Palm, Sorghum, Cotton, Tomato, Onions, Bee keeping cum honey
production and other hives products, as well as fish and livestock.
Remmy Nweke in Port Harcourt/ED,Ops
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