World Bank to establish agric. equipment centres for cassava farmers


Senior Agricultural Economist with the World Bank, Dr Adetunji Oredipe, has said that the bank would establish agriculture equipment hiring enterprise centers for cassava famers in Kogi State in order to encourage agricultural mechanisation.
He disclosed this in Lokoja on Wednesday when he led a task team on monitoring visit to FADAMA III additional financing project sites in the state.
Oredipe added that the Fadama Additional Financing project had the mandate of working with cassava farmers to boost production and supply of raw materials to processing plants, with particular respect to cassava industries.
He said as part of key activities of additional financing, the World Bank aimed to make agricultural mechanisation easier for farmers by enhancing their accessibility to equipment through the centers.
“We also have provision for key infrastructure that will enable our cassava farmers to produce well, just as we are going to support high quality inputs. We are also going to support capacity building because if people are in business and don’t know its tenets like simple issues of record keeping, it will be disastrous.
“All of these will be covered and we will also teach them how to remain together as a group and the advantages of social networking,” he said.
Stressing that the body intends to engage scientists as advisory officers, Oredipe added that consultants are to work on the fields with the farmers to boost their yields and enable the attainment of the goals of the project within its lifespan.

 

 

 

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