The Federal Government says it is targeting about five million jobs for farmers through the €995m agricultural mechanisation programme.
Under the initiative, it added that facilities comprising tractors and other agricultural machineries were expected to be leased out to Nigerian farmers.The in-kind facility, it added, was designed to help Nigeria attain food security, create jobs and diversify the economy from oil.
He said when the programme took off fully, it would create at least five million jobs and 35 million nutritional effects and economic impact on Nigerians. These machines, he added, would be leased out to the farmers for a fee, adding that the operations would be privately managed in a competitive manner.
“Over 142 agro processing factories will be situated across all senatorial districts to create aggregation, intermediary and final processing of the increased farm outputs on the back of the 632 primary production supporting service centres in the respective LGs.
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