Agric Ministry Introduces New Measures for Fertiliser Allocation
Bauchi State Director in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Alhaji Mohammed Yusuf, has described as successful the 2013/14 E-Wallet System of fertiliser allocation and distribution in the country.
To this end, he said, the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture is soon to introduce the National Agricultural Payment Initiative
(NAPI) as a boost to the e-wallet system geared to biometrically capture the
data of all farmers under the scheme.
He attributed the non-implementation of the
e-wallet fertiliser allocation this year to change of administration at the
central level, and the non-payment of outstanding payment to agro dealers who
supply the fertiliser.
The director who spoke in an interview with
journalists yesterday in Bauchi, said however that the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture is doing everything possible to offset the outstanding arrears to
the fertiliser suppliers towards making headway in the programme.
“There is also this new programme that is coming
up, the National Agricultural Payment Initiative (NAPI) in which we are going
to capture biometrical data of all farmers which is an improved version of the
e-wallet system.”
According to him, successes recorded during the
last e-wallet system of fertiliser allocation will be fused into the new
programme, as errors noticed during the e-wallet system are consolidated into
the new NAPI scheme.
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