Delta farmers move to benefit from N50b bond
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, Delta Chapter, has urged the
state government to consider farmers in the disbursement of the N50
billion bond recently approved for it. Jerry Ossai, the chapter
Chairman, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria
in Asaba. He said that with adequate support to farmers, the “Delta
without oil initiative” would be realised. Mr Ossai, who said funding
had remained the bane of agricultural development in the state, pointed
out that farmers had found it difficult to access any of the sector’s
intervention funds. “I will advise the government to put some good
money from the N50 billion bonds just approved for the state into
agriculture,” he said. Mr Ossai, a former Commissioner for Agriculture
in the state, said only one farmer in the state had been able to access
funds from the federal government’s agriculture intervention scheme.
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