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 Agriculture and Rural Development, Alh. Sabo Nanono, said this at the formal launch in Port Harcourt that the scheme would take off in nine oil producing states.
The states are Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers.
The Minister, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Umar, said the scheme, Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises was, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD.
Speaking, Acting Managing Director, NDDC, Joi Nunieh, said the scheme would transform the economy of the Niger Delta. He added that the Commission would provide 30 million U.S. dollars about 10.89 ten-point-eight-nine billion naira, as part of its counterpart fund for the project.
