60,000 Kaduna farmers to benefit from $200m agric projects vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
KADUNA—About 60,000 farmers and People Living with Disabilities, PWD, in Kaduna State are to benefit from the federal government’s agro-processing and support value chain projectsThe national Coordinator of the agro-processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support , APPEALS, Dr. Yahaya Aminu disclosed this at a one-day stakeholders’ sensitization workshop in Kaduna.
“At least 35 percent of direct beneficiaries will be women and at least 5-10 percent will be People with Disabilities, PWD. The project has a component to benefit women and youth that will allow them to develop agri-businesses that are expected to create jobs and improve their livelihoods.” According to him, “we are not relenting in our desire to engineer transition in agriculture from small-scale subsistence activity to a market oriented commercially viable business. This is the reason why Kaduna State is one of the six states collaborating with the Federal Government and the World Bank in the implementation of project.
“Kaduna State is an agrarian state with over 70% of the population engaged in crop and livestock production. It has a land area of 4.5million hectares out of which 2 million is arable land. Nigeria is the 10th producer of maize in the
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