Food Security: Federal Government Launches N46.83BN Agric. Scheme In 9 Oil Producing States - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 11, 2019
The Federal Government has launched one-hundred-and-twenty-nine-point-one-seven million U.S. dollars about forty-six-point-eight-three billion naira agric scheme to enhance food security and income generation in the country.
Minister of Agricultureand Rural Development, Alh. Sabo Nanono, said this at the formal launch in PortHarcourt that the scheme would take off in nine oil producing states.
The states are Abia, AkwaIbom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers.
The Minister, who wasrepresented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agricultureand Rural Development, Mohammed Umar, said the scheme, Livelihood ImprovementFamily Enterprises was, in collaboration with the International Fund forAgricultural Development, IFAD.
Speaking, ActingManaging Director, NDDC, Joi Nunieh, said the scheme would transform theeconomy of the Niger Delta. He added that the Commission would provide 30million U.S. dollars about 10.89 ten-point-eight-nine billion naira, as part ofits counterpart fund for the project.