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Nigeria to benefit from $63.4m AfDB agric intervention


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Nigeria is to benefit from an African Development Bank initiative known as the Support for Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops.

The Deputy Director-General, Partnerships and Capacity Development, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Mr. Kenton Dashiell, said the initiative would help narrow the yield gap facing Africa’s strategic crops, even as most countries on the continent embarked on agricultural reforms.

He observed that the SARD-SC would focus mainly on maize, rice and wheat, stressing that these crops were of strategic importance not just for Nigeria, but for Africa.

He spoke in Abuja during an interview with our correspondent at the SARD-SC maize, wheat and rice country launch.

Dashiell said, “The total figure given by the African Development Bank for this project is approximately $63.4m and it will run for five years. The outcomes of this project are in three major areas.

“The first is improved technologies for agricultural production in these three major commodities in Nigeria – maize, wheat and rice. The second is in capacity development. Nigeria is already blessed with good capacity to research and carryout extension development work in these three crops, but we want to build that and make it stronger than it is today.

“The third is dissemination to the people of Nigeria; to the farmers, to processors and to everyone that is involved in the production, marketing, processing and consumption of these three commodities to deliver good results.”

He said the experts, during the programme, would work with and build on the agricultural transformational agenda of the Federal Government and implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture.

“It is a very sound programme and we will be building on that and using all types of tools to communicate to the population of Nigeria,” he said.

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