Agriculture: FG Pledges Commitment To Revitalising Existing Policies - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 21, 2019
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono has pledged to revitalise existing agricultural policies toward realising the goal of diversifying Nigeria’s economy, using agriculture as a driving force.
Nanono, in a statement said the value-chain approach torepositioning the sector through implementing policy instruments for enterprisedevelopment across successive stages of the commodity value-chains iscommendable.
The Minister made this known while commissioning the Centrefor Dryland Agriculture Farm, CDA, and Agri-Business Incubation Centre inBayero University Kano.
Nanono said the ministry is aware of the noble achievementsrecorded by the CDA since its inception in 2012, noting that such achievementswould not have been possible without the support of the university’smanagement.
The BUK Vice-Chancellor, Muhammad Bello, said theinstitution is one of the few elite universities to complete the Phase 3 of theWorld Bank ACE project, titled: ‘Ace Impact’.