The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says the Federal Government is to allocate 200 million dollars for the creation of 780 Agricultural Service Centres to serve as catalysts for training and equipment sharing, under the Nigeria-Brazil bilateral development programme.
The Vice president, who was represented by the Secretary of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said this at the 4th 2021 Nigerian Diaspora Investment Summit held at the Congress Hall, the Presidential Villa, in Abuja.
The summit was organised by the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission NiDCOM, in collaboration with the Federal Government and the Nigeria Diaspora Summit Initiative, under the theme: “Partnership and linkages for post-COVID economic growth”.
He said that the Federal Government had designed a programme to transform agriculture and scale up productivity in Nigeria called the Green Imperative Nigeria-Brazil Bilateral Development Programme.
